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Poster Abstracts, 3/9/04 1) Using ABI to help HES for atmospheric sounding and cloud retrieval Jun Li*, Timothy, J. Schmit@ , W. Paul Menzel@, and James Gurka# @NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Research and Applications Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. *Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. #NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, Maryland Abstract The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) on GOES-R and beyond will enable improved monitoring of the distribution and evolution of atmospheric thermodynamics and clouds. The HES will be able to provide hourly atmospheric soundings with spatial resolution of 4 ~ 10 km with high accuracy using its high spectral resolution measurements. However, presence of clouds affects the sounding retrieval and needs to be dealt with properly. The ABI is able to provide at high spatial resolution (0.5 ~ 2km) a cloud mask, surface and cloud types, cloud phase mask etc, cloud top pressure (CTP), cloud particle size (CPS), and cloud optical thickness (COT). The combined ABI/HES system offers the opportunity for atmospheric and cloud products improved over those possible from either system alone. The key steps for synergistic use of ABI/HES radiance measurements are 1) collocation in space and time, and 2) ABI cloud amount, type, and phase determination within the HES sub-pixel. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) measurements from the Earth Observing System’s (EOS) Aqua satellite provide the opportunity to study the synergistic use of advanced imager and sounder measurements. The combined MODIS and AIRS data for various scenes are analyzed to study the utility of synergistic use of ABI products and HES radiances for better retrieving atmospheric soundings and cloud properties. 2) ABI cloud mask study using MODIS data Rich Frey*, Jun Li*, Timothy,