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CALIPSO: Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask Version 3-30 Product (CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-30)

Latest Data Update: 2015-02-24
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2014-07-25
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 23.68K Files | 324GB
Abstract

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 vertical feature mask version 3-30 data product describes the horizontal and vertical distribution of the cloud and the aerosol layers observed by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP). 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.

Citable as:  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2014): CALIPSO: Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask Version 3-30 Product (CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-30). NERC Earth Observation Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/28d70f3a778068728313515d4b83ca9c/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: NASA, CALIPSO, CALIOP, Cloud, Aerosol

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/neodc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_307e3424-1413-11e4-8953-00163e251233
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/citing-asdc-data
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center and mirrored by the NEODC
File Format:
Data are HDF4 formatted

Related Documents

 Description of CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 VFM Products
 An overview of the CALIPSO retrieval algorithms and data products (Vaughan et al., 2004)
 Product Information of CAL_LID_L2_VFM-ValStage1-V3-30
 CALIPSO Users Guide with Data Quality Summaries

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

Computation Element: 1

Title Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Satellite
Abstract Deployed on Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Satellite.
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

None
  • var_id: Day_Night_Flag
  • units: NoUnits
  • units: NoUnits
  • var_id: Feature_Classification_Flags
  • units: NoUnits
  • var_id: Land_Water_Mask
  • units: deg
  • var_id: Latitude
  • units: deg
  • var_id: Longitude
  • units: sec
  • var_id: Profile_Time
  • units: NoUnits
  • var_id: Profile_UTC_Time
  • units: km
  • var_id: Spacecraft_Position

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2013-03-01T00:00:00
End time:
2013-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (1)
Publishers (1)
Principal Investigators (1)