CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5km Aerosol Layer data, Provisional V3-02

Description

CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02 data are Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5km aerosol layer data. Within the Lidar Aerosol Layer Product there are two general classes of data:- Column Properties (including position data and viewing geometry)- 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. Version 3.02 represents a transition of the Lidar, IIR, and WFC processing and browse code to a new cluster computing system. No algorithm changes were introduced and very minor changes were observed between V3.01 and V3.02 as a result of the compiler and computer architecture differences. Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) was launched on April 28, 2006 to study the impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's radiation budget and climate. It flies in formation in the international A-Train constellation for coincident Earth observations. The CALIPSO satellite comprises three instruments, the Cloud-Aerosol LIdar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR), and the Wide Field Camera (WFC). CALIPSO is a joint satellite mission between NASA and the French Agency, CNES.

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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-PROV-V3-02_L2-003.02
21 ASDC Data and Information for CALIPSO https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO
21 CALIPSO project home page https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/
21 NASA Mission Page for CALIPSO https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/
21 DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02_V3-02 https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/CAL_LID_L2_05KMALAY-PROV-V3-02_L2-003.02
21 Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02_V3-02 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1522935473-LARC_ASDC
21 OPeNDAP data access for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02_V3-02 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02/contents.html
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
33 CALIPSO Quality Statements Lidar Level 2 Cloud and Aerosol Layer Products Version Releases: 3.01, 3.02 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/quality_summaries/CALIOP_L2LayerProducts_3.01.pdf
21 CALIPSO Data User’s Guide https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/
21 CALIPSO - List of publications https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/publications.php
21 A-Train Data Depot (ATDD) Description https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/glossary?title=A-Train+Data+Depot+%28ATDD%29
21 CALIPSO - Data Availability Site https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/tools/data_avail/
21 CALIPSO - Data User's Guide - Browse Image Tutorial https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/browse/index.php
21 French (CNES) CALIPSO Home Page https://calipso.cnes.fr/fr
21 ICARE Data and Services Center Home Page http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/
21 ICARE programmers toolbox http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/tools/
21 Links to tools available through the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/tools-and-services
21 NASA Mission Overview of CALIPSO https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/index.html
33 Overview of CALIPSO Data at the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/ASDC_CALIPSO_Overview_2015.pdf
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02_V3-02 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmALay-Prov-V3-02/
21 Overview of CALIPSO Data Product Maturity https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/data_product_maturity.html
21 CALIPSO Data Release Summary Statement https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/data_release_summary_statement.html
21 CALIPSO Products Overview https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/products/
21 NASA Earth Observatory: Polar Stratospheric Clouds - CALIPSO caught a top-down glimpse of an unusual atmospheric phenomenon - polar stratospheric clouds. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/49187/calipso-spies-polar-stratospheric-clouds
21 NASA Earth Observatory: Whitewater-Baldy Fire in New Mexico - Understanding how high wildfires send smoke into the atmosphere is one of the key pieces of information required to predict where and how a smoke plume will spread. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/78194/whitewater-baldy-fire-in-new-mexico
21 CALIPSO - List of project documentation (Data Products Catalog and ATBDs) https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/project_documentation.php
21 CALIPSO Data User’s Guide - Frequently Asked Questions https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/faq.php
33 NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Experiment in the sky - A train of satellites follows the atmospheric effects of a volcanic eruption. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1235/NASA_SOP_2009_Experiment_in_the_sky.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory: Nighttime Ash Tracking - Vertical profile of the volcanic ash helps modelers issue more accurate warnings to pilots. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/44052/nighttime-ash-tracking-with-calipso
33 CALIPSO Tilt Mode Geometry Anomaly Anomalies https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/TiltModeGeometry.pdf
33 CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Fact Sheet https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/137028main_FS-2005-09-120-LaRC.pdf

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

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