Overview of the CALIPSO Version 4 Lidar Data Products

Vaughan, Mark A.; Vaughan, Mark A.

Tuesday, 24 January 2017: 9:00 AM

Conference Center: Skagit 4 (Washington State Convention Center )

Mark A. Vaughan, NASA, Hampton, VA; and A. Garnier, J. L. Tackett, M. A. Avery, J. Kar, Z. Liu, C. Trepte, D. M. Winker, J. Pelon, A. Omar, B. Getzewich, K. P. Lee, X. Cai, and S. Zeng

NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission is scheduled to release version 4 of their level 2 data products in the fall of 2016. This presentation will highlight some of the many significant improvements delivered by the version 4 CALIPSO lidar cloud and aerosol data products, with a particular focus on the retrieval of extinction-to-backscatter ratios for both ice clouds and water clouds.

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3.3 Overview of the CALIPSO Version 4 Lidar Data Products