The CALIPSO Lidar Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination: Version 2 Algorithm and Initial Assessment of Performance

Z Liu, M Vaughan, D Winker, C Kittaka… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO)
satellite was launched in April 2006 to provide global vertically resolved measurements of …

An overview of the CATS level 1 processing algorithms and data products

JE Yorks, MJ McGill, SP Palm… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cloud‐Aerosol Transport System (CATS) is an elastic backscatter lidar that was
launched on 10 January 2015 to the International Space Station (ISS). CATS provides both …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of the CALIPSO mission and CALIOP data processing algorithms

DM Winker, MA Vaughan, A Omar, Y Hu… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-
wavelength polarization lidar that performs global profiling of aerosols and clouds in the …

[HTML][HTML] Fully automated detection of cloud and aerosol layers in the CALIPSO lidar measurements

MA Vaughan, KA Powell, DM Winker… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Fully Automated Detection of Cloud and Aerosol Layers in the CALIPSO Lidar
Measurements in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Volume 26 Issue 10 (2009) …

Effects of crop residue burning on aerosol properties, plume characteristics, and long‐range transport over northern India

DG Kaskaoutis, S Kumar, D Sharma… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol emissions from biomass burning are of specific interest over the globe due to their
strong radiative impacts and climate implications. The present study examines the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] CALIPSO lidar description and performance assessment

WH Hunt, DM Winker, MA Vaughan… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
CALIOP block diagram, showing simplified optical signal paths to the detectors for all three
channels and signal processing electronics for one channel. Electronics for the other two …

[HTML][HTML] The retrieval of profiles of particulate extinction from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) data: Algorithm description

SA Young, MA Vaughan - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
This work describes the algorithms used for the fully automated retrieval of profiles of
particulate extinction coefficients from the attenuated backscatter data acquired by the lidar …

Aerosol classification from airborne HSRL and comparisons with the CALIPSO vertical feature mask

SP Burton, RA Ferrare, MA Vaughan… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - amt.copernicus.org
Aerosol classification products from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) airborne
High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL-1) on the NASA B200 aircraft are compared with …

Impact of agriculture crop residue burning on atmospheric aerosol loading–a study over Punjab State, India

AR Sharma, SK Kharol, KVS Badarinath… - Annales …, 2010 - angeo.copernicus.org
The present study deals with the impact of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol
properties during October 2006 and 2007 over Punjab State, India using ground based …

Discriminating between clouds and aerosols in the CALIOP version 4.1 data products

Z Liu, J Kar, S Zeng, J Tackett… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - amt.copernicus.org
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Operations (CALIPSO) mission
released version 4.1 (V4) of their lidar level 2 cloud and aerosol data products in November …