CALIPSO Lidar Level 0 data

CAL_LID_L0-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 0, Version 1-00 data product. These data product were collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP). This data product translates a matched set of three 90-minute raw Lidar Level 0 binary files into a single file containing the lidar measurements and health and status data from all three channels; 532 nm parallel, 532 nm perpendicular, and 1064 nm. CALIPSO was a partnership between NASA and the French Space Agency, CNES. CALIPSO was launched on April 28, 2006 to study the many roles played by clouds and aerosols in Earth’s climate and weather. It flew in the international A-Train constellation for coincident Earth observations from launch until September 13, 2018, when CALIPSO began lowering its orbit from 705 km to 688 km (428 miles) above the Earth to resume formation flying with CloudSat as part of the “C-Train”. The CALIPSO satellite carried three remote sensing instruments: the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR), and the Wide Field-of-View Camera (WFC). By mutual agreement between NASA and CNES, the CALIPSO science mission concluded on August 1, 2023.

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Maintainer Earthdata Forum
Last Updated June 8, 2026, 22:41 (UTC)
Created April 1, 2025, 14:54 (UTC)
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