NEWS September 15, 2020: CALIPSO is in the News!

NASA Langley Scientsits Contribute to Award-winning Children’s Book - “What’s Up in the Atmosphere? - Exploring Colors in the Sky” HERE. August 31, 2020: CALIPSO is in the News!

“Studying the 2019-2020 Australian Bushfires Using NASA Data” Read the article HERE. July 14, 2020: CALIPSO is in the News!

“NASA, CNES Space Laser Measures Massive Saharan Dust Plume” Read the article HERE. July 01, 2020: CALIPSO is in the News!

“A Dust Plume to Remember” Read the article HERE.



May 04, 2020 - ATTENTION:

Due to errors seen in the Level 0 data from the WFC starting on April 11th, 2020 CALIPSO has suspended processing and distribution of the Level 1 standard and expedited WFC products. IIR Level 2 processing scripts have been modified to ignore the loss of the WFC data stream with minimal impact to the data. Browse images will continue to be generated without the WFC contribution. June 20, 2018 - ATTENTION: ONGOING

CALIOP is experiencing an elevated frequency of low energy laser shots within and near the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) region which has degraded the science quality of affected profiles since September 2016. Please see the Low Laser Energy Advisory page for further information and guidance for identifying affected profiles. INTRODUCTION The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols (airborne particles) play in regulating Earth's weather, climate, and air quality. CALIPSO combines an active lidar instrument with passive infrared and visible imagers to probe the vertical structure and properties of thin clouds and aerosols over the globe. CALIPSO was launched on April 28, 2006 with the cloud profiling radar system on the CloudSat satellite. CALIPSO and CloudSat are highly complementary and together provide new, never-before-seen 3-D perspectives of how clouds and aerosols form, evolve, and affect weather and climate. CALIPSO and CloudSat fly in formation with three other satellites in the A-train constellation to enable an even greater understanding of our climate system from the broad array of sensors on these other spacecraft. CALIPSO is a joint U.S. (NASA) and French (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales/CNES) satellite mission that has been in operation for four years. » Read more … QUICK LINKS » CALIPSO’s Data Availability Tool

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