Introducing CALIPSO’s Version 4 Level 2 Lidar Data Products
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Zhaoyan Liu
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- ORCID : 0000-0003-4996-5738
Jacques Pelon
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Abstract
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.