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CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5km Cloud Layer, V5-00
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/caliop/calipso/cal_lid_l2_05kmclay-standard-v5-00
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.
Description
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 Properties (including position data and viewing geometry) and Layer Properties.
The cloud layer products consist of a sequence of column descriptors, each associated with a variable number of cloud layer descriptors. The column descriptors specify the temporal and geophysical location of the column of the atmosphere through which a given lidar pulse travels. Also included in the column descriptors are indicators of surface lighting conditions, information about the surface type, and the number of features (e.g., cloud layers) identified within the column.
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For each feature within a column, a set of layer descriptors is reported. The layer descriptors provide information about the spatial and optical characteristics of a feature, such as base and top altitudes, integrated attenuated backscatter, and optical depth. CALIPSO was a partnership between NASA and the French Space Agency, CNES.
CALIPSO was launched on April 28, 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/cal_lid_l2_05kmclay-standard-v5-00 ↗
DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Standard-V5-00_V5-00
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · 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
- CALIPSO Final Report ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20260000771 ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/quality_summaries/cal_lid_l2_lay_v5-00_desc_… ↗
CALIPSO Data Description and Quality Summary – CALIOP Level 2 Layer
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
- 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 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
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_Browse_… ↗
CALIPSO Data User's Guide - Browse Image Tutorial
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
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3463063986-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3463063986-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Standard-V5-00_V5-00 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
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- PNG asdc.larc.nasa.gov/static/images/project_logos/calipso.png ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource cnes.fr/projets/calipso ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource science.nasa.gov/mission/calipso ↗
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- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/calipso-lidar-level-2-5km-cloud-layer-v5-00 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=792200b0-30bb-43d0-b0c2-64ec4f336… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3463063986-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3463063986-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations · Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization · Cloud Liquid Water/Ice · Cloud Properties · Cloud Types
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 69% · Imaging 75% · Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 22 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3463063986-LARC_CLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 792200b0-30bb-43d0-b0c2-64ec4f3367e2 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:caliop | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-microphysics/cloud-liquid-water-ice | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-types | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:calipso | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |