CALIPSO Level 2
Entry Title: CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 aerosol profile data, Prov-V3-40
Entry ID: CAL_LID_L2_05kmAPro-Prov-V3-40
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget
Resources and Documentation
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PROFESSIONAL HOME PAGE
ICARE Data and Services Center Home Page
PROJECT HOME PAGE
French (CNES) CALIPSO Home Page
NASA Mission Overview of CALIPSO
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION POLICY
- A-Train Data Depot (ATDD) Description
- ASDC Data and Information for CALIPSO
- CALIPSO - List of project documentation (Data Products Catalog and ATBDs)
- CALIPSO Data Release Summary Statement
- Links to tools available through the ASDC
- Overview of CALIPSO Data at the ASDC
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- CALIPSO - Data Availability Site
PROCESSING HISTORY
- CALIPSO Quality Statements: Lidar Level 2 Cloud and Aerosol Profile Products Version Releases: 3.01, 3.02, 3.3
PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT
- Overview of CALIPSO Data Product Maturity
PRODUCT USAGE
- CALIPSO Products Overview
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- CALIPSO - List of publications
- CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Fact Sheet
- NASA Earth Observatory: Nighttime Ash Tracking - Vertical profile of the volcanic ash helps modelers issue more accurate warnings to pilots.
- NASA Earth Observatory: Polar Stratospheric Clouds - CALIPSO caught a top-down glimpse of an unusual atmospheric phenomenon - polar stratospheric clouds.
- 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.
- NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Experiment in the sky - A train of satellites follows the atmospheric effects of a volcanic eruption.
PUBLICATIONS
- CALIPSO Data User’s Guide - Frequently Asked Questions
USER FEEDBACK PAGE
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- AEROSOL EXTINCTION
- AEROSOL BACKSCATTER
- LIDAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIO
- Backscatter Coefficient
- Depolarization Ratio Profile
- Extinction Coefficient
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
Other (HDF and NetCDF)
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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Geodetic
Locations
GLOBAL
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 2016-12-01 - Present
Temporal Resolution: 5.92 second