CALIPSO IIR Level 3 GEWEX Cloud Monthly Product Version 1.00 Data Release

The Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center in collaboration with the CALIPSO mission team announces the release of a new CALIPSO IIR level 3 (L3) Global Energy and Water cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud product. This new data product is a reformatted version of CALIPSO’s contribution to the GEWEX cloud assessment of global cloud datasets from satellites (https://climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/gewexca/index.html). The files include global distributions of clouds microphysical properties along with cloud amount, radiative temperature, effective emissivity, and cloud optical depth as averages and histograms on a uniform 2-dimensional (2D) spatial grid. All level 3 parameters are derived from the CALIPSO IIR version 4.2 level 2 products, with a temporal averaging of one month.

Access to the CAL_IIR_L3_GEWEX_Cloud-Standard-V1-00 product through this AERIS/ICARE archive here 

The monthly products are available beginning with data from June 2006 through December 2016.

Information about this new data product including data availability, user documentation and quality statements, relevant links, and tools for working with the data, etc. can be found at the following ASDC link:
https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov.

An in-depth data quality document and description document can be found in the following CALIPSO links: 
https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/qs/cal_iir_l3_gewex_cloud_v1-00.php
https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/data_summaries/l3/cal_iir_l3_gewex_cloud_v1-00_desc.php

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