64 datasets

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2026 · Array · NetCDF

The Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology (GloSSAC) team first created the dataset in 2018 to support the climate modeling community through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Phase 6. GloSSAC is an internationally recognized source for assessing long-term variability in stratospheric aerosol properties. It supports major international science activities such as CMIP P

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2026 · Array · NetCDF

The dataset consists of a collection of satellite retrievals from Aqua-MODIS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO used in Li et al. (2026) for the period from June 2006 until December 2017. The data include cloud (cloud droplet density, cloud particle radius, cloud fraction, cloud optical depth, cloud top height, cloud top temperature, cloud top pressure, liquid water path, precipitation fraction), and aerosol

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_CloudSkyOpaque-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol, Cloudy Sky Opaque, data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This data product, generated separately between day and night, reports monthl

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_MLay-Diagnostic-Beta-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2Merged Layer Diagnostic data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. The contents of this merged layer product contain information already in the CAL_LID_L2_05kmMLay-Standard-V5-00 andC

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_CloudFree-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation(CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol, Cloud-Free, data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This data product, generated separately between day and night, reports monthly mean profil

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_AllSky-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol, All-Sky, data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This data product, generated separately between day and night, reports monthly mean profiles of

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_333mMLay-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 333 m Merged Layer data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Within this cloud and aerosol layer product, generated at a horizontal resolution of 333 m (single shot resolution), are tw

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_05kmAPro-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5 km Aerosol Profile data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This aerosol profile product reports vertical profiles of particulate extinction and backscatter, as well as additional i

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Cloud_Occurrence-Standard-V2-00_V2-00 are Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar(CALIOP) Level 3 Cloud Occurrence products. The Lidar Level 3 Cloud Occurrence product reports global distributions of cloud occurrence by counts on a uniform spatial grid. At each grid, the number of detected ice cloud samples is also reported as a histogram of ic

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Array ·

CAL_ODCOD_ext_05km_V4-5_1 provides a global dataset of clear-sky aerosol extinction profiles derived from CALIOP data, offering valuable insights into aerosol behavior over oceanic regions from 2006 to 2023. These retrievals use column aerosol optical depth (AOD) from CALIOP Ocean-Derived Column Optical Depth (ODCOD), based on satellite measurements, to constrain the retrieval of extinction profil

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_PSCMask-Standard-V3-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC) data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument and describes the spatial distribution, optical properties, and composition of PSC layers observed. The product

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Array ·

CAL_MODIS_DTDB_ext_05km_V4-5_1 provides a global dataset of clear-sky aerosol extinction profiles, enabling improved assessments of aerosols' role in Earth’s climate and air quality systems. Derived from CALIOP data using MODIS Dark Target/Deep Blue (DT/DB) column aerosol optical depth (AOD, Collection 6), the dataset spans daytime observations over land and ocean between 2006 and 2018. Operationa

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L0_PIVB-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 0 Payload Instrument Verification and Block (PIVB), Version 1-00 data product. These data were collected intermittently between August 2016 and June 2023 using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP). The CALIPSO payload flight software, when commanded

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_01kmCLay-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 1 km Cloud Layer data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Within this cloud layer product, generated at a horizontal resolution of 1 km, are two general classes of data: Column Proper

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Ice_Cloud-Standard-V2-00_V2-00 are Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar (CALIOP) Level 3 Ice Cloud product. The Lidar Level 3 Ice Cloud product reports global distributions of ice cloud extinction and ice water content (IWC) histograms on a uniform spatial grid. CALIPSO was a partnership between NASA and the French Space Agency, CNES. CALIPS

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V2-00_V2-00 are Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar (CALIOP) Level 3 Cloud products for the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud Assessment. The Lidar Level 3 GEWEX Cloud product reports global distributions of cloud occurrence and cloud top on a 2-dimentional (2D) spatial grid. Cloud top is represente

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_CloudSkyTransparent-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol, Cloudy Sky Transparent, data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This data product, generated separately between day and night, repo

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_05kmCPro-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5 km Cloud Profile data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This cloud profile product reports vertical profiles of particulate extinction and backscatter, as well as additional infor

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_VFM-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask (VFM) data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. The CALIOP Level 2 VFM data product contains scene classification and lidar lighting and land/water indicators. CALIPSO

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L1-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 1B profile data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization(CALIOP) instrument. The CALIOP Level 1B data product contains a half orbit (day or night) of calibrated and geolocated single-shot (highest resolution) lidar profi

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5 km Aerosol Layer data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Within this aerosol layer product, generated at a horizontal resolution of 5 km, are two general classes of data: Column Pr

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L3_Stratospheric_APro-Standard-V2-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Stratospheric Aerosol data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. This data product reports global distributions of 532 nm total attenuated backscatter, particulate backscatter

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_05kmMLay-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5 km Merged Layer data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Within this cloud and aerosol layer product, generated at a horizontal resolution of 5 km, are two general classes of data:

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Standard-V5-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 5 km Cloud Layer data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. Within this cloud layer product, generated at a horizontal resolution of 5 km, are two general classes of data: Column Proper

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2025 · Image data

CAL_LID_L0-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 0, Version 1-00 data product. These data product were collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP). This data product translates a matched set of three 90-minute raw Lidar Level 0 binary files into a single file containing the lidar measurements