ASDC | CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00

CALIPSO Level 3

Entry Title: CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard V1-00

Entry ID: CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00

Clouds

Description

CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard Version 1-00 data product. Data for this product was collected using the CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Data collection for this product is complete.

This product is a reformatted version of the CALIPSO contribution to the GEWEX cloud assessment of global cloud datasets from satellites. The data submitted by the CALIPSO team for this project had to conform to a very specific format: yearly netCDF files organized by parameter. In order to be compatible with other publicly orderable lidar level 3 CALIPSO aerosol and cloud products, which are reported as monthly HDF files, this new lidar level 3 CALIPSO GEWEX cloud product was created. These files report global distributions of cloud amount and cloud top as averages and histograms on a uniform 2-dimensional (2D) spatial grid. All level 3 parameters are derived from the CALIPSO version 4.x level 2 5 km cloud merged layer products, with a temporal averaging of one month.

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/LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00

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GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

PROCESSING HISTORY

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PRODUCTION HISTORY

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CLOUDS

Cloud Amount

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

HDF4

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (-90, 90), (-180, 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Longitude Resolution: 1
Latitude Resolution: 1
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2006-06-01 - 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 2019-08-13

Last updated on 2022-05-05