Imaging · collection · 2025
CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 GEWEX Cloud, Standard V2-00
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/caliop/calipso/lid_l3_gewex_cloud-standard-v2-00
CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V2-00_V2-00 are Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Lidar (CALIOP) Level 3 Cloud products for the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud Assessment.
Description
The Lidar Level 3 GEWEX Cloud product reports global distributions of cloud occurrence and cloud top on a 2-dimentional (2D) spatial grid. Cloud top is represented as cloud top temperature, cloud top pressure and geometric cloud top height.
The product is produced following the general guidance of the GEWEX Cloud Assessment project. The cloud occurrence is estimated at three altitude levels, i.e., high, middle and low levels separated by cloud top pressure thresholds 440 hectopascal (hPa) and 860 hPa. It is also described by different cloud phase: water clouds, ice clouds and ice clouds at high level.
Read the rest (3 more)
Though the contents are the same as the CALIPSO cloud product reported to the GEWEX website, the data structure is slightly different. Instead of reporting each cloud property as yearly files, this product includes all cloud properties as monthly files. 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/lid_l3_gewex_cloud-standard-v2-00 ↗
DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V2-00_V2-00
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · 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/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_Peer_Re… ↗
CALIPSO Data User's Guide - Peer Reviewed Bibliography
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
- 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 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
- Description": "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/quality_summaries/cal_lid_l3_gewexcloud_V2-0… ↗
CALIPSO Data Description and Quality Summary – CALIOP Level 3 GEWEX Cloud
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4013043981-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- PNG asdc.larc.nasa.gov/static/images/project_logos/calipso.png ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C4013043981-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Virtual Directory for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V2-00_V2-00
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C4013043981-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V2-00_V2-00 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource science.nasa.gov/mission/calipso ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource cnes.fr/projets/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-3-gewex-cloud-standard-v2-00 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=c2c441ff-f2c3-46db-9c8a-ed6fe9926… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4013043981-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4013043981-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 · Clouds · Cloud Top Pressure · Cloud Top Temperature
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 71% · Imaging 75% · Satellite remote sensing 65%
Related
Provenance · 2 source records, 22 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C4013043981-LARC_CLOUD | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | c2c441ff-f2c3-46db-9c8a-ed6fe99266a9 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
| 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 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties/cloud-top-pressure | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties/cloud-top-temperature | 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 |