Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
1B-CPR (CloudSat data product)
datasetobservational / measurementIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRA; NASA
Description
CloudSat 1B-CPR product: backscattered power as a function of distance from the 94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, release P_R05 in NetCDF, with 12 geolocation and 22 data fields, covering the full mission except anomalies and maneuver gaps.
Official page
https://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/data-products/1b-cpr
Open official page (opens in a new tab)Access
- Access summary
- download
- Download or access
- CloudSat products will remain available via this website through September 27th, 2026, after which they can be obtained from NASA Earthdata Cloud in NetCDF format.
Contact
- Contact
- (no name)
Details
- Keywords
- cloud profiling radar, backscattered power, radar calibration, cloudsat, netcdf
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Processing level
- Level 1B
- Associated entity
- CloudSat Data Processing Center (DPC), CIRA
- Identifier
- 1B-CPR P_R05
- Status
- Current Epoch: Epoch 10
- Deployment platform
- CloudSat (94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, CPR)
- Specifications
- Algorithm Specifications table: 12 geolocation fields + 22 data fields (type, dimensions, units, valid range, missing value, factor, offset per field)