Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles

1 NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center, Climate and Radiation Branch, Greenbelt, MD, USA 2 Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82230 Wessling, Germany 3 NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, Greenbelt and Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, MD, USA 4 Department of Physics and Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA