*Takashi Sekiya¹, Kazuyuki Miyazaki^2,1, Henk Eskes³, Kengo Sudo^4,1, Masayuki Takigawa¹, Yugo Kanaya¹ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute for Technology, 3.Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), 4.Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University)

*Masahiro Yamaguchi¹, Jagat Bisht¹, Masayuki Takigawa¹, Prabir Patra¹, Yugo Kanaya¹ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

*Takeshi Kinase¹, Fumikazu Taketani¹, Takuma Miyakawa¹, Zhu Chunmao¹, Masayuki Takigawa¹, Yutaka Tobo², Hisahiro Takashima³, Yugo Kanaya¹ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-earth Science and Technology, 2.National Institute of Polar Research, 3.Fukuoka University)

*Naveen Chandra¹, Prabir Patra^1,2,3, Yosuke Niwa⁴, Akihiko Ito⁴, Yosuke Iida⁵, Daisuke Goto⁶, Shinji Morimoto³, Masayuki Kondo⁷, Masayuki Takigawa¹, Tomohiro Hajima¹, Michio Watanabe¹ (1.Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan , 2.Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan, 3.Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan , 4.Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan , 5.Atmosphere and Ocean Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo 105-8431, Japan, 6.National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo, 190-8518, Japan , 7.Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601 )

*Jagat Bisht¹, Masahiro Yamaguchi¹, Masayuki Takigawa¹, Prabir Patra¹, Yugo Kanaya¹ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology )

*Tsuneo Matsunaga¹, Hiroshi Tanimoto¹, Takafumi Sugita¹, Hisashi Yashiro¹, Isamu Morino¹, Makoto Saito¹, Hirofumi Ohyama¹, Satoshi Inomata¹, Kohei Ikeda¹, Yu Someya¹, Tamaki Fujinawa¹, Yosuke Yamashita¹, Astrid Muller¹, Matthias Max Frey¹, Tazu Saeki¹, Nobuko Saigusa¹, Yugo Kanaya², Takashi Sekiya², Prabir Patra², Masayuki Takigawa², Yasuko Kasai³, Tomohiro Sato³ (1.Satellite Observation Center, Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

*YASUKO KASAI¹, Yugo Kanaya², Hiroshi Tanimoto³, Naoko Saitoh⁴, Nawo Eguchi⁵, Tomohiro Sato¹, Tamaki Fujinawa³, Prabir Patra³, Takashi Sekiya², Masayuki Takigawa², JpSAC Satellite Comm.⁶ (1.National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2.Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 4.Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, 5.Kyushu University, 6.JpSAC)