Author Affiliations

J. Ding,¹ P. Yang,^*,1 P. G. Stegmann,¹ B. Q. Sun,² G. W. Kattawar,² S. Platnick,³ K. G. Meyer,^4,3 and C. Wang⁵

¹Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

²Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

³NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

⁴Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

⁵Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/University of Maryland, College Park, MD

^*Corresponding author: pyang@tamu.edu