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University of Wyoming Wyoming Scholars Repository Atmospheric cience Faculty Publications Atmospheric cience 9-9-2010 Tropical Compositio , Cloud and Climate Coupli g Experime t Validation for Cirrus Cloud Profili g Retrieval Usi g Cloudsat Radar and CAL IPSO lidar Min De g University of Wy oming, mdeng2@ G.G. Mace University of U tah Z. Wa g University of Wy oming, zwang@ H. Okamoto Ky ushu University, F ukuoka, Jap an Follow this and additional works at : /atmospheric_facpub Publication Information Deng, Min; Mace, G.G.; Wang, Z.; and Okamoto, H. (2010). Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment Validation for Cirrus Cloud Profiling Retrieval Using Cloudsat Radar and CALIP O lidar. J ournal of Geop hy sical Research: A tmosp heres 115.D00J15, 1-18. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Atmospheric cience at Wyoming cholars Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Atmospheric cience Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Wyoming cholars Repository. For more information, please contact scholcom@. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, D00J15, doi:10.1029/2009JD013104, 2010 Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment validation for cirrus cloud profiling retrieval using CloudSat radar and CALIPSO lidar Min Deng,1 Gerald G. Mace,2 Zhien Wang,1 and Hajime Okamoto3 Received 31 August 2009; revised 9 March 2010; accepted 2 April 2010; published 9 September 2010. [1] A profiling retrieval algorithm for ice cloud properties, such as effective radius (r ), e ice water content (IWC), and an extinction coefficient, has been developed to use combined CloudSat radar reflect