Highlights

Release of CALIPSO V3-00 Lidar Level-3 Aerosol product October 2015

The Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center in collaboration with the CALIPSO mission announces the release of the following monthly data products: CAL_LID_L3_APro_AllSky-Standard-V3-00 CAL_LID_L3_APro_CloudFree-Standard-V3-00 CAL_LID_L3_APro_CloudySkyTransparent-Standard-V3-00 CAL_LID_L3_APro_CloudySkyOpaque-Standard-V3-00 Version 3.00 of the CALIOP Level-3 Aerosol Profile product contains several improvements to the initial beta release including refined sky conditions, reduced biases in single-species […]

Public release of Megha-Tropiques/SAPHIR Relative Humidity profiles products – July 2015

The French Megha-Tropiques science team is pleased to announce the public release of the layer-averaged relative humidity profiles (L2-RH) derived from the SAPHIR instrument. This new Level-2 product is available from the start of the mission (October 2011) until present. (click here to access the data from the ICARE archive interface (current version: v1.00). The […]

Second announcement and call for abstracts International conference on “Water and Energy cycles in the Tropics” 17-19 November 2015, Paris, France

Deadline for abstract submission extended to June 19 The aim of the conference is to provide a forum to review and discuss the latest research on the topic of the water and energy cycles with emphasis on tropical regions. The tropical energy cycles are central to the climate, its variability and its future evolution as […]

2e atelier TRATTORIA: “Transfert Radiatif dans les ATmosphères Terrestres pour les ObseRvations spatIAles” 2nd workshop on “Radiative transfer in the atmosphere for spatial observations” 23-25 March, 2015, Polytech’Lille, University of Lille 1

Le CNES organise, avec l’Université Lille 1, la seconde édition du workshop TRATTORIA. Cet atelier sur les codes de transfert radiatif atmosphérique sera l’occasion de dresser un panorama des codes utilisés dans les différentes communautés scientifiques françaises et de discuter des évolutions attendues pour les prochaines années, particulièrement pour les missions spatiales d’observation de la […]

New product announcement: Release of SEVIRI AERUS-GEO aerosol product – January 2015

MSG/SEVIRI AERUS AOD 0.63 µm observed by SEVIRIImage credit: CNRM-GAME/ICARE. A new SEVIRI aerosol product has been developed in the framework of a joint collaboration between Meteo France (CNRM-GAME) and ICARE. The new daily (daytime) aerosol optical depth product (SEV_AERUS-AEROSOL-NRT-D3) is public (click here to access the data from the archive interface (current version: v1.01, […]

CALIOP V4 Level-1 Product Release November 2014

The Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center in collaboration with the CALIPSO mission team announces the release of the following standard data product: CAL_LID_L1-Standard-V4-00 This updated version of the CALIOP Level-1 data product substantially improves both the 532nm and 1064nm calibration accuracies. Changes to the calibration techniques were firmly rooted by […]

New product announcement – October 2014 MODIS-like SEVIRI cloud product: public beta release for evaluation purposes

A new SEVIRI cloud product has been developed in the framework of a joint project between scientists and data experts from NASA, NOAA, LOA, and ICARE. This new dataset, called SEV06-CLD, is derived from the MSG/SEVIRI instrument observations using an algorithm that replicates the retrieval core of the Collection 6 MODIS Level-2 cloud product (MOD06_L2 […]

PARASOL Level-1 and Level-2 data reprocessing underway September 2014

The PARASOL Level-1 data and all atmosphere products are currently being reprocessed from the beginning of the mission onward using revised algorithms. The Level-1 reprocessing, performed by CNES, began in April 2014 and new files are transferred to ICARE for Level-2-and-up products reprocessing. As of September 1, 2014, PARASOL data from March 2005 to mid-2008 […]

December 2013: Innovative atmospheric products over 8 years of PARASOL observations

During its life span of 9 years in orbit, the PARASOL mission provided 8 years and 7 months of global aerosol and cloud observations from mid-March 2005 to mid-October 2013 (see also the previous highlight on PARASOL). PARASOL was within the A-Train constellation during nearly 5 years, providing observations coincident with other instruments. The scientific […]