CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard V1-00

Description

CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard Version 1-00 data product. Data for this product was collected using the CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Data collection for this product is ongoing. This product is a reformatted version of the CALIPSO contribution to the GEWEX cloud assessment of global cloud datasets from satellites. The data submitted by the CALIPSO team this project had to conform to a very specific format; yearly netCDF files organized by parameter. In order to be compatible with other publicly orderable lidar level 3 CALIPSO aerosol and cloud products, which are reported as monthly HDF files, this new lidar level 3 CALIPSO GEWEX cloud product was created. These files report global distributions of cloud amount and cloud top as averages and histograms on a uniform 2-dimentional (2D) spatial grid. All level 3 parameters are derived from the CALIPSO version 4.x level 2 5 km cloud merged layer products, with a temporal averaging of one month. 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 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 ASDC Data and Information for CALIPSO https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO
21 NASA Mission Page for CALIPSO https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 CALIPSO Data User’s Guide - Frequently Asked Questions https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/faq.php
21 CALIPSO Project Home Page https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/
21 CALIPSO: Data User's Guide - Data Quality Statement - Lidar Level 3 AGEWEX Cloud Data Product Version 1 https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/data_summaries/l3/cal_lid_l3_gewex_cloud_v1-00_desc.php
21 Detailed Data Quality Summary for the CALIPSO Version 1.00 Lidar Level 3 GEWEX Cloud Data Product https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/qs/cal_lid_l3_gewex_cloud_v1-00.php
21 Overview of CALIPSO Data Product Maturity https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/data_product_maturity.html
21 Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00_V1-00 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1661297069-LARC_ASDC
33 CALIPSO - Data Management System - Data Products Catalog - Release 2.4 https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/products/CALIPSO_DPC_Rev4x92.pdf
21 CALIPSO Data User’s Guide https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/
21 DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00_V1-00 https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FCALIOP%2FCALIPSO%2FLID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00
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 CALIPSO - Data User's Guide - Browse Image Tutorial https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/browse/index.php
21 CALIPSO - List of project documentation (Data Products Catalog and ATBDs) https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/project_documentation.php
21 CALIPSO - Data Availability Site https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/tools/data_avail/
21 ICARE Data and Services Center Home Page https://www.icare.univ-lille.fr
21 NASA Mission Overview of CALIPSO https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/index.html
21 French (CNES) CALIPSO Home Page https://calipso.cnes.fr/fr
21 ASDC Data and Information for GEWEX-RFA https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/GEWEX-RFA
33 CALIPSO Tilt Mode Geometry Anomaly https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/TiltModeGeometry.pdf
21 Links to tools available through the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/tools-and-services
21 NASA Overview of GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment https://gewex-rfa.larc.nasa.gov/
33 Overview of CALIPSO Data at the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/ASDC_CALIPSO_Overview_2015.pdf
21 CALIPSO Data Release Summary Statement https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/data_release_summary_statement.html
21 ASDC Overview of the GEWEX RFA Data File Format and File Naming Convention https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/gewex-rfa/documents/data_format.html
21 CALIPSO Products Overview https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/products/
21 GEWEX Cloud Assessment Project Page https://climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/gewexca/index.html
21 ICARE Programmers Toolbox https://www.icare.univ-lille.fr/category/icare-news/tools/
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00_V1-00 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/CALIPSO/LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00/
21 OPeNDAP data access for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00_V1-00 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CALIPSO/LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00/contents.html

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  • atmosphere
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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