CALIPSO

Measurements of aerosol & cloud properties for climate predictions, using a 3 channel lidar and passive instruments for coincident observations of radiative fluxes and atmospheric state


Launched in:2006
Orbit height:705 km
Orbit type:Sun Synchronous
Organisation: NASA - USA
In formation with Aqua and CloudSat

CALIPSO websites

Information

NASA - Calipso home
NASA - Calipso
DLR - World Data Center Atmosphere

Data ordering

NASA - Calipso products
ASDC - Calipso data products
NASA EarthData - Search