ASDC | CAL_LID_L15-Standard-V1-01

CALIPSO Level 1B

Entry Title: CALIPSO Lidar Level 1.5 Profile, V1-01

Entry ID: CAL_LID_L15-Standard-V1-01

Aerosols

Description

CAL_LID_L15-Standard-V1-01 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 1.5 Profile, Version 1-01 data product. Data for this product was collected using the CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. The version of this product was changed from 1-00 to 1-01 to account for a change in the operating system of the CALIPSO production cluster.

This product is a continuous segment of calibrated, geolocated, cloud-cleared, and spatially averaged profiles of lidar attenuated backscatter. Data collection for this product is ongoing. These profiles are derived via synthesizing the CALIPSO lidar Level 1B profile and lidar Level 2 5 km aerosol profile products with the lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask (VFM) product. The lidar Level 1.5 standard data product is derived using standard Version 4.11 Level 1B and Version 4.21 Level 2 data products as input.

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 (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales).

DOI

10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/CAL_LID_L15-Standard-V1-01

Citation Styles for this Dataset

Publications

Bonazzola, Marine; Chepfer, Hélène; Ma, Po-Lun; Quaas, Johannes; Winker, David M.; Feofilov, Artem; Schutgens, Nick (2023). Incorporation of aerosol into the COSPv2 satellite lidar simulator for climate model evaluation.

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

CALIPSO - List of project documentation (Data Products Catalog and ATBDs)

PROCESSING HISTORY

CALIPSO - Data Availability Site

PUBLICATIONS

CALIPSO - List of publications

USER'S GUIDE

CALIPSO Data User’s Guide

From GCMD Science Keywords:

AEROSOLS
AEROSOL BACKSCATTER

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

HDF4

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2020-07-01 - 2022-01-19

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

CALIPSO

Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

CALIOP

Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization

Metadata Dates

Created on 2020-10-13

Last updated on 2023-10-31