Dataset
CALIPSO: Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask Version 4-51 Product (CAL_LID_L2_VFM-Standard-V4-51)
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 objective of the mission was to supply a unique data set of vertical cloud and aerosol profiles.
This dataset contains cloud and aerosol lidar level 2 vertical feature mask version 4-51 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). CAL_LID_L2_VFM-Standard-V4-51 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask (VFM), Version 4-51 data product. Data for this product was collected using the CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. The version of this product was changed from 4-20 to 4-21 to account for a change in the operating system of the CALIPSO production cluster.
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These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center and mirrored by CEDA. |
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Data are HDF4 formatted
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
Mobile platform operations
| Mobile Platform Operation 1 | Mobile Platform Operation for: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Satellite |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Satellite VFM product computation |
| Abstract | Deployed on Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Satellite. Computation to create the Version 4-51 VFM product. The new version 4.51 (V4.51) of the CALIPSO lidar (CALIOP) Level 2 (L2) data products contain a number of improvements and additions over the previous version (V4.2) that was released in October 2018. A summary of the major changes addressed in this release are detailed in the data quality documentation link, as well as a section high-lighting known issues. |
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- var_id: Day_Night_Flag
- units: NoUnits
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- var_id: Feature_Classification_Flags
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- var_id: Land_Water_Mask
- var_id: Latitude
- units: �
- var_id: Longitude
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- var_id: Minimum_Laser_Energy_532
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- var_id: Profile_ID
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- var_id: Profile_Time
- var_id: Profile_UTC_Time
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- units: km
- var_id: Spacecraft_Position
- units: NoUnits
- var_id: ssLand_Water_Mask
- units: J
- var_id: ssLaser_Energy_532
- var_id: ssLatitude
- units: �
- var_id: ssLongitude
- units: �
- units: NoUnits
- var_id: ssProfile_ID
- units: s
- var_id: ssProfile_Time
- var_id: ssProfile_UTC_Time
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Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2006-06-12T00:00:00
2023-06-30T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |