Introducing CALIPSO’s Version 4 Level 2 Lidar Data Products

Mark Vaughan (1) , Anne Garnier (2) , Jason L. Tackett (2) , Melody A. Avery (1) , Stuart Young (3) , Jay Kar (2) , Brian Getzewich (1, 2) , Ali Omar (1) , Zhaoyan Liu (1) , Kam‐pui Lee (1) , Xia Cai (2) , Shan Zeng (1, 2) , Yongxiang Hu (1) , Jim Lambeth (2) , Rob Ryan (2) , Brian Magill (2) , Sharon Rodier (1, 2) , Tim Murray (1, 2) , Ken Beaumont (2) , Paula Detweiler (2) , Pat Lucker (2) , Jacques Pelon (4) , David M. Winker (1) , Chip Trepte (1)

1 LaRC - NASA Langley Research Center [Hampton]
2 SSAI - Science Systems and Applications, Inc. [Hampton]
3 CISRO Oceans and Atmosphere
4 TROPO - LATMOS

The NASA-CNES CALIPSO mission released Version 4.1 (V4.1) of their lidar level 2 (LL2) data products in November 2016. This new release from uses significantly improved retrieval algorithms to provide increased accuracy and substantially reduced uncertainties in the derived parameters. Here we present a comprehensive overview of the V4.1 LL2 data products, and show examples illustrating the improvements made in retrieving the spatial distributions and optical properties of clouds and aerosols.

Domains: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]

Mark Vaughan, Anne Garnier, Jason L. Tackett, Melody A. Avery, Stuart Young, et al.. Introducing CALIPSO’s Version 4 Level 2 Lidar Data Products. ILRC 28, 28th International Laser Radar Conference, Jun 2017, Bucharest, Romania. ⟨insu-01575809⟩