CEDA Metadata Catalogue
CALIPSO: Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Level 2 Aerosol Profile Version 3-30 Product (CAL_LID_L2_05kmAPro-Prov-V3-30)
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) was a joint-mission between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. The main objectives of the mission was to supply unique data set of vertical cloud and aerosol profiles.
This dataset contains cloud and aerosol lidar level 2 aerosol profile version 3-30 data derived from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) Level 1B product with uniform horizontal resolution of 5 km and ancillary data. There are no layer descriptors included in the datasets, and the spatial distribution of the aerosol layers depends on the aerosol layer fraction and atmospheric volume description parameters. The aerosol backscatter and extinction coefficients are obtained through the CALIPSO Lidar Ratio selection algorithm. Version 3-30 was released in April, 2013. This version incorporates two ancillary input files updated from those used in versions 3-01 and 3-02: GEOS-5 processing system version 5.9.1 from version 5.2; and the enhanced Air Force Weather Authority (AFWA) Snow and Ice Datasets. The resulting changes are relatively small.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014-07-25T16:39:20
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-07-25T16:39:20
- Identifier
- NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / f6650d841a3a7b09923825d9f77c27e3
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- NASA
- CALIPSO
- CALIOP
- Cloud
- Aerosol
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2013-03-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2013-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are HDF4 formatted
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Data are HDF4 formatted
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Description of CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Cloud and Aerosol Profile Products
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An overview of the CALIPSO retrieval algorithms and data products (Vaughan et al., 2004)
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Product Information of CAL_LID_L2_05kmAPro-Prov-V3-30
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CALIPSO Users Guide with Data Quality Summaries
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center and mirrored by the NEODC
- File identifier
- f6650d841a3a7b09923825d9f77c27e3 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data c9401560af57cb76ffca4da0d86c8dcc
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-04-25T23:01:09
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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