Using RSP observations to understand and diagnose angular sensitivities in the bi-spectral cloud microphysical retrievals of the MODIS CLDPROP algorithm

Daniel J Miller1, Kerry Meyer2, Steven E Platnick2, Galina Wind3, George Thomas Arnold3, Nandana Amarasinghe3, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven4 and Brian Cairns5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States