The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Satellite was launched on April 28, 2006 to study the roles of clouds and aerosols of climate and weather. The CALIPSO Night Validation Flights (CALIPSO-NVF) airborne deployment was conducted in August 2022 to continue to validate CALIPSO data. Launched out of Bermuda, the goal was to conduct a series of nighttime underflights of the CALIPSO satellite with the NASA Langley High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL-2), which was essential for verifying the calibration accuracy of the CALIPSO lidar and for acquiring information on aerosol optical properties used for its aerosol profile retrievals

This StoryMap showcases the data comparison between CALIPSO and the CALIPSO-NVF mission.