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    • CALIPSO Lidar Level 3 Ice Cloud Data, Standard V1-00

    Metadata Updated: February 6, 2026

    CAL_LID_L3_Ice_Cloud-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 3 Ice Cloud Data, Standard Version 1-00 data product. This data product was collected using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument. The degradation of the laser energies that started in September 2016 had a negative impact on the product, and because of this, generation and distribution ended in December 2016. Updated Lidar Level 2 data products and changes to the Lidar Level 3 Ice Cloud algorithm will need to be completed before a new release of this product is released.This product reports global distributions of ice cloud extinction and ice water content histograms on a uniform spatial grid. All level 3 parameters are derived from the CALIPSO level 2, 5km cloud profile products, with a temporal average of one month. CALIPSO was launched on April 28, 2006, and continues to collect data necessary to study the impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's radiation budget and climate. It flies in the international A-Train constellation for coincident Earth observations. The CALIPSO satellite comprises three instruments: CALIOP, Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR), and Wide Field Camera (WFC). CALIPSO is a joint satellite mission between NASA and the French Agency CNES.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 15, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 6, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 15, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 6, 2026
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/L3_ICE_CLOUD-STANDARD-V1-00
    Data Last Modified 2026-02-03
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"Boundary":{"Points":{"Latitude":-90,"Longitude":-180},{"Latitude":-90,"Longitude":180},{"Latitude":90,"Longitude":180},{"Latitude":90,"Longitude":-180},{"Latitude":-90,"Longitude":-180}}}, Minimum Altitude;Maximum Altitude, -0.5 km;20.2 km
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 447320eca7fbd9e54dd2d070f78e8798c0bdf499e7e6ce33c58448466068d1df
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2006-06-01/2006-06-01

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