THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT RADIATIVE IMPACTS OF AEROSOLS ON THE CLIMATE AND WEATHER SYSTEM REMAIN AN AREA OF ACTIVE RESEARCH. ONE OF THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTING AEROSOLS IS SMOKE FROM AGRICULTURAL AND WILDFIRES WHICH IS STUDIED THROUGH IN-SITU AND REMOTELY SENSED DATA. THE CLOUD PHYSICS LIDAR (CPL) FLOWN ONBOARD NASA S ER-2 AIRCRAFT USES BACKSCATTER AND DEPOLARIZATION PRODUCTS AT MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS TO CLASSIFY CLOUDS AND AEROSOLS WITH HIGH TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION. ADDITIONALLY AIRBORNE POLARIMETERS SUCH AS THE AIRBORNE MULTI-ANGLE SPECTROPOLARIMETRIC IMAGER (AIRMSPI) HYPER-ANGULAR RAINBOW POLARIMETER (HARP)/PASSIVE AEROSOL AND CLOUD SUITE (PACS) AND RESEARCH SCANNING POLARIMETER (RSP) ENABLE THE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES BY MEASURING THE RADIANCE AND STATE OF POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. WHILE COMBINED RETRIEVALS FROM LIDAR AND POLARIMETER ARE CLASSIFIED AS A VERY IMPORTANT PRIORITY IN THE DECADAL SURVEY FOR SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS THIS AVENUE OF RESEARCH HAS NOT YET BEEN EXPLORED. FIFTEEN FIRES WERE SAMPLED DURING THE STUDIES OF EMISSIONS AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION CLOUDS AND CLIMATE COUPLING (SEAC4RS) CAMPAIGN BY CPL AND AIRMSPI. COINCIDENT FLIGHT DATA FOR BOTH INSTRUMENTS CAN AND WILL BE UTILIZED TO MORE ACCURATELY QUANTIFY MICROPHYSICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SMOKE FROM THE SAMPLED FIRES. COMBINED LIDAR/POLARIMETER DATA WILL PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AEROSOL PROPERTIES SMOKE PLUME TRANSPORT AND SMOKE RADIATIVE EFFECTS.