Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
2B-CLDCLASS-LIDAR (CloudSat data product)
datasetreference / derived productIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRA; NASA
Description
CloudSat 2B-CLDCLASS-LIDAR product combining CloudSat CPR and CALIPSO lidar measurements to classify cloud layers into types such as stratus, cumulus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus and deep convective clouds, with cloud phase; release P1_R05 in NetCDF.
Official page
https://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/data-products/2b-cldclass-lidar
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- 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 classification, calipso lidar, cloud phase, cloud layers, a-train
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Associated entity
- CloudSat Data Processing Center (DPC), CIRA
- Identifier
- 2B-CLDCLASS-LIDAR P1_R05
- Status
- Current Epoch: Epoch 10
- Deployment platform
- CloudSat (94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, CPR)
- Specifications
- Algorithm Specifications table: 11 geolocation fields + 18 data fields (type, dimensions, units, valid range, missing value, factor, offset per field)