CALIPSO Lidar Calibration Algorithms. Part I: Nighttime 532-nm Parallel Channel and 532-nm Perpendicular Channel

By Kathleen Powell, Chris A. Hostetler, Zhaoyan Liu, Mark A. Vaughan, R. Kuehn, W. Hunt, Kam-Pui Lee, C. Trepte, R. Rogers, Stuart A. Young and 1 more. 2009

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Mark A. Vaughan
2. D. Winker
3. Ali H. Omar
4. Kathleen Powell
5. Zhaoyan Liu
6. Chris A. Hostetler
7. W. Hunt
8. R. Rogers

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Mark A. Vaughan
2. D. Winker
3. Kathleen Powell
4. Ali H. Omar
5. Zhaoyan Liu
6. Chris A. Hostetler
7. W. Hunt
8. R. Rogers

Citations in the corpus

• Fully Automated Detection of Cloud and Aerosol Layers in the CALIPSO Lidar Measurements (2009, methodology): “The fundamental measurements made by CALIOP are calibrated range-resolved profiles of backscatter intensity (Powell et al. 2009).”
• CALIPSO polar stratospheric cloud observations: second-generation detection algorithm and composition discrimination (2009, methodology): “Assessments of the CALIOP calibration, performance, and data quality have been documented elsewhere in the literature (e.g., Powell et al., 2009; Hunt et al., 2009; Winker et al., 2007; McGill et al., 2007).”
• Aerosol classification from airborne HSRL and comparisons with the CALIPSO vertical feature mask (2013, methodology): “As a primary validation instrument for the CALIOP lidar (Powell et al., 2009), the airborne HSRL-1 has flown 109 successful validation flights for the CALIPSO program and has provided a unique dataset crucial for validating both level 1 (Rogers et al., 2011) and level 2 (Rogers et al., 2013) CALIOP…”
• The CALIPSO Lidar Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination: Version 2 Algorithm and Initial Assessment of Performance (2009, background): “This dust belt is a region containing the major dust sources and is located in the Northern Hemisphere, stretching from the western coast of Africa to China, covering the Sahara and Sahel regions, the Arabian Peninsula, northern India, the Tarim Basin, and the Gobi Desert (Prospero et al. 2002).”
• Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms (2009, unknown): “Further details are given in Powell et al. (2009).”