**About the Editors**

**Simone Lolli** is a permanent senior scientist for the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and scientific Co-PI of the NASA MPLNET Lidar Network. He is also an adjunct professor at Kent State University (KSU, Florence Campus) . In the last ten years, Simone has developed significant experience in applied atmospheric remote sensing techniques, both from space and from the ground, to study aerosol, cloud and precipitation's optical, geometrical and microphysical properties, together with their interaction with climate, meteorology, air quality and global earth–atmosphere energy budget. He also participated in several field campaigns in Southeast Asia in the frame of 7-SEAS NASA mission. Simone holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, and an M.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Florence, Italy. He has lived in four countries and speaks Italian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. His colleagues describe him as detail focused, organized, and goal oriented.

**Kai Qin** received his PhD from, and is a professor at as well as the deputy director of the Department of Remote Sensing & GIS, China University of Mining and Technology. He earned the Ph.D. degree in 2013 in Remote Sensing from the China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing). He is currently a professor of CUMT. His research interest focuses on atmospheric environment studies using ground and satellite-based observations. He has been responsible for an AERONET site and a MAX-DOAS site in Xuzhou, eastern China, since 2013. He serves as the secretary of ISPRS Working Group on Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Environment Since 2016. He is an official member of Sentinel-5 Precursor validation team. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. He is the Topic Editor and Guest Editor of Remote Sensing. He was a visiting scholar at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2015 and a visiting scholar at the Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center, from March 2016 to February 2017. He has been involved in several research projects, e.g., Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

**James Campbell** is the Head of the Atmospheric Properties and Effects Section (Code 7544) for the Marine Meteorology Division at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Monterey, CA. His research experience is based on atmospheric remote sensing and thermodynamics. The primary focus of his work is the characterization of cloud and aerosol physical properties using lidar (light detection and ranging) instruments. He is the Principal Investigator on a current NRL project evaluating the influence that visibly thin cirrus clouds exert on climate radiative balance. He played a primary support role in the development of the federated worldwide Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) for the NASA Earth Observing System, serving now as an MPLNET science team member. He further contributes to the NASA Cloud Aerosol Lidar with the Orthogonal Polarization satellite lidar science working group. Dr. Campbell has conducted field research on five continents, from Antarctica to the Maritime Continent of Southeast Asia.

**Sheng-Hsiang (Carlo) Wang** received his BS and MS degree from the National Central University (NCU), Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001. During 2008 and 2011, Dr. Sheng-Hsiang Wang was an exchange scholar (post doc) of National Central University and the University of Maryland Collage Park, and worked on-site in NASA/GSFC. His research work was strongly related to many groups in GSFC, i.e., SMARTLabs, AERONET, and MPLNET. In 2012, Dr. Wang returned to NCU for a faculty position to continue his research related to aerosol and radiation. His major research topics include: (1) aerosol and radiation interactions; (2) aerosol optics measurements and remote sensing; (3) satellite remote sensing for air pollution; and (4) numerical model development and application. He has authored or co-authored 60 published journal papers.
