The “Satellite news” section features news related to a satellite mission.
Data Summary Announcement for the release of the CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Blowing Snow – Antarctica Version 2.00 and Greenland Version 1.00 Products
Data Release Date: January 29, 2024Version: Antarctica – Version 2.00 and Greenland – Version 1.00Data Date Range: June 13, 2006 to June 30, 2023 The CALIPSO mission team announces the release of two new CALIOP Level 2 monthly data products: The Blowing Snow monthly data products, developed by Dr. Stephen Palm, isolates blowing snow events determined from the […]
Data Summary Announcement for the release of the CALIPSO IIR Level 2 Products Version 4.51
Data Release Date: September 25, 2023Version: 4.51Data Date Range: June 13, 2006 to June 30, 2023 The CALIPSO mission team announces the release of new IIR Level 2 Products: The V4.51 IIR Level 2 track and swath products use the recently released V4.51 CALIOP Level 2 layer products. Data are produced and successfully ingested at the Atmospheric Science […]
CALIPSO: OFFICIAL END OF SCIENCE MISSION
After 17 years of good and loyal service, the space agencies, CNES for France and NASA for the USA agreed to end the CALIPSO science mission on August 1, 2023. This mission has been highly successful. Originally designed for a lifetime of 3 years, CALIPSO delivered unprecedented measurements of the vertical structure of the Earth’s […]
Release announcement of the V4.51 LL2 data product
The CALIPSO mission team announces the release of a new CALIOP Level 2 Product: The V4.51 CALIOP Level 2 products have a number of improvements to the characterization of smoke above clouds, single-shot (333m) cloud clearing techniques, and the stratospheric aerosol classification scheme. Two additional particulate optical depths are computed, derived over both ocean surfaces […]
CALIPSO Lidar Level 1 Product Version 4.51 Data Release
The CALIPSO mission team, in collaboration with the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center, announces the release of a new CALIOP Level 1 Product: CAL_LID_L1-Standard-V4-51 The product is available beginning with data from June 13, 2006 (following CALIOP first light), and as of this announcement, through December 31, 2010. Remaining data […]
10 years of Tapeer-Brain product now available
The full period for the TAPEER-BRAIN product is now available from 2011 to 2021. Find more information about data access here. Please find below associated documents for this release : The GEO confidence index documents for the full period from 2011 to 2021 A quality diagram on signal duration/day for SAPHIR A quality diagram on […]
Release of V2.00 Lidar Level 2 PSC mask
The CALIPSO mission team, in collaboration with the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center, announces the release of a new daily CALIOP Level 2 Polar Stratospheric Cloud (PSC) Mask Product: CAL_LID_L2_PSCMask-Standard-V2-00 The CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Polar Stratospheric Cloud data product ensemble describes the spatial distribution, optical properties, and composition of […]
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 […]
Retirement of older CALIPSO Data Products
Several CALIPSO Lidar and IIR data products have been pulled off of public access and can no longer be ordered, neither at AERIS/ICARE, nor at NASA ASDC. These data products, spanning from June 13, 2006 to September 30, 2020, have been replaced with newer versions. Versions of these data products after October 1, 2020 are still available but will […]