CLAIM3D A 3D CloudAerosol Interaction Mission

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CLAIM-3DA 3D Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Mission

• J. Vanderlei Martins1,2, Alexander Marshak2,
  Yoram Kaufman2, Richard Burg2, Lorraine Remer2 ,
  Marshal Shepherd2, Brian Cairns3,2, Arlindo da
  Silva2 , Graham Feingold4 , Ilan Koren1
• JCET/UMBC (1), NASA/GSFC (2), Columbia
  University (3), NOAA/ETL (4)

International Partners Didier Tanre, J. F. Leon,
J. Riedi, Jacques Pelon, others () International
Collaborators Daniel Rosenfeld, Zev Levin, Paulo
Artaxo GSFC Engineering and Management
Team Richard Burg, Mark Domen, Ron Zelar, Govind
Gadwall, Jim Kellog, Juan Roman
Multi-Angle, Extended Wavelength,
Polarization Combines several new approaches with
existing features from MODIS, MISR, Glory,
TOMS/OMI satellites
GSFC Aerosol Update February 2006
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In Situ Aircraft Andreae, et al. Science
2004Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon
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NASA/UMBC IFUSP INPE/CPTEC
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Cloudbow Imaging

• Important Features
• Extended Wavelength Coverage UVTIR
• Multi-Angle Viewing capability (for aerosols and
  cloudbow)
• Polarization
• High Spatial Resolution

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Two Angles Simple Scan
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Unpolarized Cloud top reflectance

• Cloudbow Measurements for Accurate Effective
  Radii and variance
• should provide effective radius retrievals at
  least one order of magnitude more accurate than
  current methods, in addition to unprecedented
  measurements of the width of the droplet
  distribution.

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Cloud Droplet effective radius from polarization
measurementsF-M. Breon, P. Goloub, 1998.
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Rainbow Camera Prototype Measurement Commercial
Flight Beijing New York - August 14 2005
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CLAIM-3D options beyond ESSP

• CLAIM-3D rainbow telescope is a new concept with
  great potential for instrument of opportunity
  in many other missions.
• small, light, and low cost instrument with strong
  science potential.
• CLAIM-3D met other NASA Centers to discuss a
  broader concept for the measurement of aerosol
  and clouds AEGIS/CLAIM 3D concept aircraft
  concept will be submitted to Roses.
• JPL MSPI imaging polarimeter
• Langley Aerosol Lidar
• GSFC Cloud Scanner System (same as CLAIM-3D)
• Notice Our most important strengths are in areas
  not covered by JPL
• Thermal wavelengths, Pointing capability cloud
  side measurements, Rainbow measurements
• NASA/CNRS/ESA Concept
• GSFC CLAIM-3D
• CNRS Advanced Polder
• ESA Lidar
• NASA ESA cost sharing spacecraft and Launch