ASDC | CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-41

CALIPSO Level 2

Entry Title: CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask (VFM), Validated Stage 1 V3-41

Entry ID: CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-41

Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget

Description

CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-41 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask (VFM), Validated Stage 1 Version 3-41 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 3-40 to 3-41 to account for a change in the operating system of the CALIPSO production cluster.

This product describes the vertical and horizontal distribution of cloud and aerosol layers observed by the CALIPSO lidar. Cloud and aerosol discrimination for detected features is reported as a single value, the cloud-aerosol discrimination score (CAD_Score). 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.

DOI

10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-41

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PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

CALIPSO Quality Statements Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask Product Version Releases: 3.01, 3.02

From GCMD Science Keywords:

PARTICULATE MATTER
CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
CLOUD TYPES

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

NetCDF-3 , HDF4

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (-90, 90), (-180, 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2020-10-01 - Present

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

CALIPSO

Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

CALIOP

Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization

Metadata Dates

Created on 2020-09-19

Last updated on 2020-10-15