CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5 km Aerosol Layer Data, V4-21

Description

CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5 km Aerosol Layer Data, Version 4-21 data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol LIdar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. The version of this product was changed from 4-20 to 4-21 to account for a change in the operating system of the CALIPSO production cluster. Data collection for this product is ongoing. Within the Lidar Aerosol Layer Product there are two general classes of data:- Column Properties (including position data and viewing geometry), and Layer Properties, the lidar layer products consist of a sequence of column descriptors, each one of which is associated with a variable number of layer descriptors. The column descriptors specify the temporal and geophysical location of the column of the atmosphere through which a given lidar pulse travels. Also included in the column descriptors are indicators of surface lighting conditions, information about the surface type, and the number of features (e.g., aerosol layers) identified within the column. CALIPSO was launched on April 28, 2006 and continues to collect data necessary to study the impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's radiation budget and climate . It flies in the international A-Train constellation for coincident Earth observations. The CALIPSO satellite comprises three instruments, CALIOP, Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR), and Wide Field Camera (WFC). CALIPSO is a joint satellite mission between NASA and the French Agency, CNES.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 ICARE Programmers Toolbox https://www.icare.univ-lille.fr/category/icare-news/tools/
21 NASA Mission Page for CALIPSO https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/
21 NASA Mission Overview of CALIPSO https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/index.html
21 CALIPSO Search and Subsetting Web Application https://subset.larc.nasa.gov/calipso/
21 CALIPSO Data Release Summary Statement https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/data_release_summary_statement.html
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21_V4-21 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FCALIOP%2FCALIPSO%2FCAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21
21 CALIPSO Products Overview https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/products/
21 CALIPSO Data User’s Guide - Frequently Asked Questions https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/faq.php
33 CALIPSO - Data Management System - Data Products Catalog - Release 2.4 https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/products/CALIPSO_DPC_Rev4x92.pdf
21 ASDC Data and Information for CALIPSO https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO
21 Overview of CALIPSO Data Product Maturity https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/data_product_maturity.html
33 CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Fact Sheet https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/137028main_FS-2005-09-120-LaRC.pdf
21 Data Quality Summary for the CALIPSO Version 4.20 and V4.21 Lidar Level 2 Data Products https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/qs/cal_lid_l2_all_v4-20.php
33 Overview of CALIPSO Data at the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/ASDC_CALIPSO_Overview_2015.pdf
21 CALIPSO Project Home Page https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/
21 CALIPSO - List of project documentation (Data Products Catalog and ATBDs) https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/project_documentation.php
21 CALIPSO - List of publications https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/publications.php
21 CALIPSO - Data Availability Site https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/tools/data_avail/
21 French (CNES) CALIPSO Home Page https://calipso.cnes.fr/fr
21 DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21 https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21
21 Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1978623212-LARC_ASDC
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 CALIPSO - Data User's Guide - Browse Image Tutorial https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/browse/index.php
21 CALIPSO Data User’s Guide https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/
33 CALIPSO Tilt Mode Geometry Anomaly Anomalies https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/TiltModeGeometry.pdf
21 ICARE Data and Services Center Home Page https://www.icare.univ-lille.fr
21 OPeNDAP data access for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21_V4-21 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-21/contents.html

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  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • lidar
  • earth-science

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