Using polarimetric observations to detect and quantify the three-dimensional radiative transfer effects in passive satellite cloud property retrievals: Theoretical framework and feasibility study

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. This work is supported by the grant CyberTraining: DSE: Cross-Training of Researchers in Computing, Applied Mathematics and Atmospheric Sciences using Advanced Cyber infrastructure Resources from the US National Science Foundation (grant no. OAC–1730250). The computations in this study were performed at the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). The facility is supported by the US National Science Foundation through the MRI program (grant nos. CNS0821258 and CNS-1228778) and the SCREMS program (grant no. DMS-0821311), with substantial support from UMBC. ZZ’s research is partly supported by NASA grant (80NSSC20K0130) to UMBC.