Description
This is AIRS-CloudSat collocated subset, in NetCDF-4 format. These data contain collocated: AIRS Level 1b radiances spectra, CloudSat radar reflectivities, and MODIS cloud mask. These data are created within the frames of the MEaSUREs project.
The basic task is to bring together retrievals of water vapor and cloud properties from multiple "A-train" instruments (AIRS, AMSR-E, MODIS, AMSU, MLS, CloudSat), classify each "scene" (instrument look) using the cloud information, and develop a merged, multi-sensor climatology of atmospheric water vapor as a function of altitude, stratified by the cloud classes. This is a large science analysis project that will require the use of SciFlo technologies to discover and organize all of the datasets, move and cache datasets as required, find space/time "matchups" between pairs of instruments, and process years of satellite data to produce the climate data records.
The short name for this collection is AIRS_CPR_MAT
Parameters contained in the data files include the following:
Variable Name|Description|Units
CldFrcStdErr|Cloud Fraction|(None)
CloudLayers| Number of hydrometeor layers| (count)
CPR_Cloud_mask| CPR Cloud Mask| (None)
DEM_elevation| Digital Elevation Map| (m)
dust_flag|Dust Flag|(None)
latAIRS|AIRS IR latitude|(deg)
Latitude|CloudSat Latitude |(degrees)
LayerBase| Height of Layer Base| (m)
LayerTop| Height of layer top| (m)
lonAIRS|AIRS IR longitude|(deg)
Longitude|CloudSat Longitude| (degrees)
MODIS_cloud_flag| MOD35_bit_2and3_cloud_flag| (None)
Radar_Reflectivity| Radar Reflectivity Factor| (dBZe)
radiances|Radiances|(milliWatts/m2/cm-1/steradian)
Sigma-Zero| Sigma-Zero| (dB*100)
spectral_clear_indicator|Spectral Clear Indicator|(None)
Vertical_binsize|CloudSat vertical binsize| (m)
End of parameter information
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | AIRS_CPR_MAT_3.2.png | Open resource |
| View this dataset's read me document | README.AIRS_CloudSat.pdf | Open resource | |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | Open resource | |
| Download this dataset through a directory map | HTML | Open resource | |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. | Open resource |