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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 (MC6) ice cloud property retrievals are produced in conjunction with a single-habit ice particle model with a fixed degree of ice particle surface roughness (the MC6 model). In this study, we examine the MC6 model and five other ice models with either smoother or rougher surface textures to determine an optimal model to reproduce the angular variation of the radiation field sampled by the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) as a function of latitude. The spherical albedo difference (SAD) method is used to infer an optimal ice particle model. The method is applied to collocated MISR and MODIS data over ocean for clouds with temperatures \u2264233 K during December solstice from 2012\u20132015. The range of solar zenith angles covered by the MISR cameras is broader at the solstices than at other times of the year, with fewer scattering angles associated with sun glint during the December solstice than the June solstice. The results suggest a latitudinal dependence in an optimal ice particle model, and an additional dependence on the solar zenith angle (SZA) at the time of the observations. The MC6 model is one of the most optimal models on the global scale. In further analysis, the results are filtered by a cloud heterogeneity index to investigate cloudy scenarios that are less susceptible to potential 3D effects. Compared to results for global data, the consistency between measurements and a given model can be distinguished in both the tropics and extra-tropics. The SAD analysis suggests that the optimal model for thick homogeneous clouds corresponds to more roughened ice particles in the tropics than in the extra-tropics. While the MC6 model is one of the models most consistent with the global data, it may not be the most optimal model for the tropics.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10121981","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,10]],"date-time":"2018-12-10T03:36:41Z","timestamp":1544413001000},"page":"1981","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Inference of an Optimal Ice Particle Model through Latitudinal Analysis of MISR and MODIS Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3202-1602","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yi","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA"}]},{"given":"Souichiro","family":"Hioki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2645-7298","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael D.","family":"King","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA"},{"name":"Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA"}]},{"given":"Larry","family":"Di Girolamo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2832-546X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongwei","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7193-2767","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bryan A.","family":"Baum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology Corporation (STC), Madison, WI 53705, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5075","DOI":"10.5194\/acp-16-5075-2016","article-title":"Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using infrared retrievals","volume":"16","author":"Holz","year":"2016","journal-title":"Atmos. 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