r3d100012490 Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations CALIPSO https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/ FAIRsharing_doi:10.25504/FAIRsharing.50d4cd The CALIPSO satellite provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols 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 CloudSat satellite. CALIPSO and CloudSat are highly complementary and together provide new, never-before-seen 3D 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. Charles.R.Trepte@nasa.gov https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/faq.php disciplinary 2006 eng 3 Natural Sciences 311 Astrophysics and Astronomy 313 Atmospheric Science and Oceanography 315 Geophysics and Geodesy 31502 Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Cartogaphy 32 Physics 34 Geosciences (including Geography) https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/index.html Images Scientific and statistical data formats Structured graphics other dataProvider A-train aerosols air quality climate clouds weather Centre national d'études spatiales CNES FRA general non-profit https://cnes.fr/en ROR:04h1h0y33 jacques.pelon@aero.jussieu.fr NASA Langley Research Center, Atmospheric Science Data Center LaRC ASDC USA technical non-profit https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/ National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA USA general non-profit https://www.nasa.gov/ ROR:027ka1x80 Charles.R.Trepte@nasa.gov David.M.Winker@nasa.gov CALIPSO Data User Guide https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/ open open restricted registration other https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html other https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html other https://www.usa.gov/government-works restricted yes https://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/resources/calipso_users_guide/tools/idl/readNCDF.pro DOI https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data yes yes Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/repository-developed-metadata-schemas 2017-10-04 2023-01-18