Extinction and optical depth retrievals for CALIPSO's Version 4 data release

Young, Stuart A.; Vaughan, Mark A.; Garnier, Anne; Tackett, Jason L.; Lambeth, James D.; Powell, Kathleen A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5701-2018

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CALIPSO version 4 algorithms and data products

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Extinction and optical depth retrievals for CALIPSO's Version 4 data release

Stuart A. Young, Mark A. Vaughan, Anne Garnier, Jason L. Tackett, James D. Lambeth, and Kathleen A. Powell

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5701-2018-supplement

Data sets

The CALIPSO level 1 profile product M. Vaughan, M. Pitts, C. Trepte, D. Winker, P. Detweiler, A. Garnier, B. Getzewich, W. Hunt, J. Lambeth, K.-P. Lee, P. Lucker, T. Murray, S. Rodier, T. Tremas, A. Bazureau, and J. Pelon https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L1-Standard-V4-10

The CALIPSO level~2 5 km cloud profile product M. Vaughan, M. Pitts, C. Trepte, D. Winker, P. Detweiler, A. Garnier, B. Getzewich, W. Hunt, J. Lambeth, K.-P. Lee, P. Lucker, T. Murray, S. Rodier, T. Tremas, A. Bazureau, and J. Pelon https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmCPro-Standard-V4-10

The CALIPSO level 2 5 km merged layer product M. Vaughan, M. Pitts, C. Trepte, D. Winker, P. Detweiler, A. Garnier, B. Getzewich, W. Hunt, J. Lambeth, K.-P. Lee, P. Lucker, T. Murray, S. Rodier, T. Tremas, A. Bazureau, and J. Pelon https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmMLay-Standard-V4-10

The CALIPSO level 2 vertical feature mask product M. Vaughan, M. Pitts, C. Trepte, D. Winker, P. Detweiler, A. Garnier, B. Getzewich, W. Hunt, J. Lambeth, K.-P. Lee, P. Lucker, T. Murray, S. Rodier, T. Tremas, A. Bazureau, and J. Pelon https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_05kmMLay-Standard-V4-10

MODIS Atmosphere L2 Cloud Product S. Platnick, M. King, G. Wind, S. Ackerman, P. Menzel, and R. Frey https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/LID_L2_VFM-Standard-V4-10

The CALIPSO+MODIS CALTRACK data AERIS/ICARE http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr

Short summary

This paper describes comprehensive upgrades to the algorithms used to retrieve altitude-resolved profiles of cloud and aerosol extinction coefficients from the elastic backscatter measurements made by the space-based CALIPSO lidar. The CALIPSO version 4 data products generated by these new algorithms are explored in detail, and the many areas of improvement are highlighted using extensive comparisons both to previous versions and to collocated measurements made by space-based passive sensors.