The CALIPSO mission: spaceborne lidar for observation of aerosols and clouds

By D. Winker, Jacques Pelon, M. Patrick McCormick, N. Langley. SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2003

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Multiyear aerosol observations with dual‐wavelength Raman lidar in the framework of EARLINET (2004, background): “In the near future, the first elastic backscatter lidar, devoted to investigate the aerosol impact on clouds and the Earth’s radiation budget, will be flown in space [Winker et al., 2003].”
A global view of midlevel liquid‐layer topped stratiform cloud distribution and phase partition from CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements (2010, neutral): “Fortunately, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) lidar and CloudSat radar measurements are now available and provide unique data to study midlevel strati-form clouds and their vertical structures [ Stephens et al. , 2002; Winker et al. , 2003].”
Status and performance of the CALIOP lidar (2004, methodology): “The CALIPSO payload includes three instruments: (1) the Cloud-Aerosol LIdar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP, pronounced the same as “calliope”) to provide vertical profiles of aerosol and cloud backscatter and depolarization; (2) an Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) with three channels in the i”
Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms (2009, methodology): “The Lidar In-space Technology Experiment (LITE) was a concept demonstration experiment that ﬂew on the Space Trans-portation System (STS)-64 mission in September 1994 (Winker et al. 1996).”
Airborne validation of spatial properties measured by the CALIPSO lidar (2007, methodology): “[2] The successful launch of the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite in April 2006 ushered in a new era in satellite-based remote sensing [Winker et al., 2003, 2007].”
Combined CloudSat‐CALIPSO‐MODIS retrievals of the properties of ice clouds (2010, neutral): “[ 2 ] On 28 April 2006, two satellites, CloudSat (a 94 GHz cloud profiling radar [ Stephens et al. , 2002]) and CALIPSO (Cloud ‐ Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations [ Winker et al. , 2003]) were launched.”
Study of Planar Ice Crystal Orientations in Ice Clouds from Scanning Polarization Lidar Observations (2005, background): “The presence of such an instrument on a spaceborne platform (Winker et al. 2003), with a smaller scanning angle (e.g. 1°) to compensate for the high altitude, would greatly improve the current knowledge of cirrus clouds microphysics in general.”
STRAT: An Automated Algorithm to Retrieve the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere from Single-Channel Lidar Data (2007, background): “…satellite missions carrying active remote sensing payloads, such as the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO; Winker et al. 2003), groundbased lidar observatories have an increasingly important role to play in establishing regional climatologies that will tie…”
Comparison of CALIOP level 2 aerosol subtypes to aerosol types derived from AERONET inversion data (2009, methodology): “[3] The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite [Winker et al., 2003; Vaughan et al., 2004] was launched successfully in April 2006, and data has been available from June 2006 onward.”
A variational scheme for retrieving ice cloud properties from combined radar, lidar, and infrared radiometer (2008, background): “…extended to space with the ‘‘A-Train’’ of satellites, comprising the cloud radar CloudSat [Stephens et al., 2002], the lidar CALIPSO (Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations; [Winker et al., 2003]) and a large number of radiometers, particularly on the Aqua satellite.”
A review of biomass burning: Emissions and impacts on air quality, health and climate in China. (2017, methodology): “The CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidarwith Orthogonal Polarization) is an instrument onboard the CALIPSO satellite, which provides new insight into observing the vertical profile of aerosols and clouds at 532 and 1064 nm, and the linear depolarization profile at 532 nm (Winker et al., 2003; Omar et al., 20”
Tropical stratospheric aerosol layer from CALIPSO lidar observations (2009, methodology): “…Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) lidar onboard Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) [Winker et al., 2003, 2007] which, as shown by the Lidar in Space Technology Experiment (LITE) 10 day precursor mission [Osborn et al., 1998] and the…”
The CloudSat radar‐lidar geometrical profile product (RL‐GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results (2014, background): “9441 Correspondence to: G. G. Mace, Jay.Mace@utah.edu Citation: Mace, G. G., and Q. Zhang (2014), The CloudSat radar-lidar geometrical profile product (RL-GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results, J. Geophys.”
Estimation of the vertical profile of sulfur dioxide injection into the atmosphere by a volcanic eruption using satellite column measurements and inverse transport modeling (2008, methodology): “3.4 CALIOP20 CALIPSO, with the CALIOP lidar on board was launched on 28 April 2006 to study the impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth’s radiation budget and climate (Winker et al., 2003, 2007).”
Initial performance assessment of CALIOP (2007, methodology): “The CALIPSO mission was developed to provide global profiling measurements of cloud and aerosol distribution and properties to complement current measurements and improve our understanding of weather and climate [Winker et al., 2003].”
Aerosol-type-dependent lidar ratios observed with Raman lidar (2007, background): “The majority of aerosol lidars, including the recently launched Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) lidar [ Winker et al., 2003 ], are so-called elastic-backscatter lidars.”
CALIPSO Lidar Description and Performance Assessment (2009, methodology): “…the earth’s atmosphere from space, having been preceded by the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE), launched in September 1994 on STS-64 (Winker et al. 1996), and the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS), launched in December 2002 on the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (…”
Online simulations of global aerosol distributions in the NASA GEOS‐4 model and comparisons to satellite and ground‐based aerosol optical depth (2010, background): “This observing system includes space‐based remote sensing platforms [e.g., Herman et al., 1997; Goloub et al., 1999; King et al., 1999; Kaufman et al., 2002; Stephens et al., 2002; Winker et al., 2003], networks of ground‐based sampling [e.”
Improvements to the OMI near-UV aerosol algorithm using A-train CALIOP and AIRS observations (2013, background): “The horizontal resolution along the orbital track is 335 m (Winker et al., 2003).”