Lidar profiling of clouds and aerosols from high-altitude aircraft and satellite platforms is revolutionizing the way we observe atmospheric phenomena. A particular strength of lidar remote sensing arises when lidar data is combined with coincident data from radar and imagers. This presentation will focus on results from the airborne Cloud Physics Lidar and from the CALIPSO satellite.

Specific science topics to be discussed will be validation of CALIPSO measurements, examination of lidar color ratio, and combining of data from the lidar and cloud radar. Results will focus heavily on the recent TC4 field campaign.