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CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol Profiles, Cloudy Sky Opaque Data, Standard V5-00
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/caliop/calipso/lid_l3_tropospheric_apro_cloudyskyopaquedata-standard-v5-00
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.
Description
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 aerosol optical properties on a uniform spatial grid.
It is a tropospheric product, so data are only reported below altitudes of 12 km. All parameters are derived from the version 5.00 CALIOP Level 2 data and have been quality screened prior to averaging. The primary quantities reported are vertical profiles of the aerosol extinction coefficient at 532 nm and its vertical integral, the aerosol optical depth (AOD).
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Aerosol type and spatial distributional information are also included. The Cloudy Sky Opaque designate indicates that only level 2 columns containing opaque clouds are averaged. CALIPSO was a partnership between NASA and the French Space Agency, CNES.
CALIPSO was launched on April28, 2006 to study the many roles played by clouds and aerosols in Earth’s climate and weather. It flew in the international A-Train constellation for coincident Earth observations from launch until September 13, 2018, when CALIPSO began lowering its orbit from 705 km to 688 km (428 miles)above the Earth to resume formation flying with CloudSat as part of the “C-Train”. The CALIPSO satellite carried three remote sensing instruments: the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR), and the Wide Field-of-View Camera (WFC).
By mutual agreement between NASA and CNES, the CALIPSO science mission concluded on August 1, 2023.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/caliop/calipso/lid_l3_tropospheric_apro_cloudyskyopaqu… ↗
DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_CloudySkyOpaque-Standard-V5-00_V5-00
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_Peer_Re… ↗
CALIPSO Data User's Guide - Peer Reviewed Bibliography
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Data Products Catalog - Release 5.00 asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/CALIPSO_DPC_Rev5x00.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/quality_summaries/cal_lid_l3_tropoaero_V5-00… ↗
CALIPSO Data Description and Quality Summary – CALIOP Level 3 Tropospheric Aerosol
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Final Report ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20260000771 ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- How to cite ASDC data asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Data User's Guide - FAQ asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_FAQ_mod… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Data User's Guide - Payload asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_Payload… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3964849249-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3964849249-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_CloudySkyOpaque-Standard-V5-00_V5-00 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
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- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C3964849249-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Virtual Directory for CAL_LID_L3_Tropospheric_APro_CloudySkyOpaque-Standard-V5-00_V5-00
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- PNG asdc.larc.nasa.gov/static/images/project_logos/calipso.png ↗
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- Resource science.nasa.gov/mission/calipso ↗
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- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO ↗
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- Resource calipso.cnes.fr/fr ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/calipso-lidar-level-3-tropospheric-aerosol-profiles-cl… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=099e0fe0-5a5b-41ff-9a6f-048748e2e… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3964849249-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3964849249-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Aerosol Extinction · Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness · Aerosols · Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations · Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 72% · Imaging 75% · Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 22 field assertions
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|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3964849249-LARC_CLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 099e0fe0-5a5b-41ff-9a6f-048748e2eba5 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
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