CALIPSO Level 2
Entry Title: CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5 km Aerosol Layer Data, V4-20

Entry ID: CAL_LID_L2_05kmALay-Standard-V4-20
Aerosols
DOI

10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05KMALAY-STANDARD-V4-20

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Publications which Cite this Collection

Tackett, Jason L.; Kar, Jayanta; Vaughan, Mark A.; Getzewich, Brian J.; Kim, Man-Hae; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Omar, Ali H.; Magill, Brian E.; Pitts, Michael C.; Winker, David M. (2023). The CALIPSO version 4.5 stratospheric aerosol subtyping algorithm.


Griffin, Debora; Sioris, Christopher; Chen, Jack; Dickson, Nolan; Kovachik, Andrew; de Graaf, Martin; Nanda, Swadhin; Veefkind, Pepijn; Dammers, Enrico; McLinden, Chris A.; Makar, Paul; Akingunola, Ayodeji (2018). The 2018 fire season in North America as seen by TROPOMI: aerosol layer height intercomparisons and evaluation of model-derived plume heights.


Zamora, Lauren M.; Kahn, Ralph A. (2017). Saharan Dust Aerosols Change Deep Convective Cloud Prevalence, Possibly by Inhibiting Marine New Particle Formation.


Zamora, Lauren M.; Kahn, Ralph A.; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Groot Zwaaftink, Christine D.; Huebert, Klaus B. (2015). Comparisons between the distributions of dust and combustion aerosols in MERRA-2, FLEXPART, and CALIPSO and implications for deposition freezing over wintertime Siberia.


Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • LIDAR
  • AEROSOL BACKSCATTER
  • Aerosol Optical Thickness
  • Column Reflectance
  • Integrated Attenuated Backscatter
  • Lidar Depolarization Ratio
Data Distribution

File Format(s):

HDF4

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Spatial Information

spatial-coverage-map
Spatial Coverage: (S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations

GLOBAL TROPOSPHERE
Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2006-06-12 - 2020-07-01
Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites
CALIPSO
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CALIOP
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
Metadata Dates

Created on 2018-09-06
Last updated on 2023-10-06