CALIPSO Level 2
Entry Title: CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Cloud Profile, V4-20

Entry ID: CAL_LID_L2_05kmCPro-Standard-V4-20
Aerosols
DOI

10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05KMCPRO-STANDARD-V4-20

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Publications which Cite this Collection

Pandit, Amit Kumar; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Fairlie, Thomas Duncan; Bedka, Kristopher M.; Avery, Melody A.; Gadhavi, Harish; Venkat Ratnam, Madineni; Dwivedi, Sanjeev; Amar Jyothi, Kasimahanthi; Wienhold, Frank G.; Vömel, Holger; Liu, Hongyu; Zhang, Bo; Kumar, Buduru Suneel; Dinh, Tra; Jayaraman, Achuthan (2024). Investigating the role of typhoon-induced waves and stratospheric hydration in the formation of tropopause cirrus clouds observed during the 2017 Asian monsoon.


Qin, Luyao; Chen, Yaodeng; Meng, Deming; Cheng, Xiaoping; Zhang, Peng (2024). Variational All‐Sky Assimilation Framework for MWHS‐II With Hydrometeors Control Variables and Its Impacts on Analysis and Forecast of Typhoon Cases.


Sokol, Adam B.; Storelvmo, Trude (2024). The Spatial Heterogeneity of Cloud Phase Observed by Satellite.


Avery, Melody A.; Ryan, Robert A.; Getzewich, Brian J.; Vaughan, Mark A.; Winker, David M.; Hu, Yongxiang; Garnier, Anne; Pelon, Jacques; Verhappen, Carolus A. (2021). CALIOP V4 cloud thermodynamic phase assignment and the impact of near-nadir viewing angles.


Bolot, Maximilien; Fueglistaler, Stephan (2020). Tropical Water Fluxes Dominated by Deep Convection Up to Near Tropopause Levels.


Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • AEROSOL BACKSCATTER
  • AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • LIDAR
  • AEROSOL EXTINCTION
  • Backscatter Coefficient
  • Depolarization Ratio Profile
  • Extinction Coefficient
Data Distribution

File Format(s):

HDF4

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Spatial Information

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

GLOBAL TROPOSPHERE
Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2006-06-12 - 2020-07-01
Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites
CALIPSO
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CALIOP
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
Metadata Dates

Created on 2018-09-06
Last updated on 2023-10-10