CALIPSO is a joint NASA – CNES satellite currently in its third year of operation in low earth orbit. The satellite is making optical measurements of the Earth’s atmosphere to help quantify the impact of aerosols and clouds on the Earth’s radiation budget. To do this, it carries three instruments: CALIOP, a two-wavelength polarization-sensitive elastic backscatter lidar; the IIR a three band th...

A characterization of cloud properties associated with precipitation in the region around Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is constructed using decade-long (2007–2017) satellite observations from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) combined CloudSat. The spatial vertical distributions low-level over are also ...

Abstract. Spaceborne observations of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) with the Cloud-Aerosol LIdar Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite provide a comprehensive picture occurrence Arctic Antarctic PSCs as well their microphysical properties. However, advances in understanding PSC microphysics also require measurements g...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract The type of Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) as well as their temporal and spatial extent are important for the occurrence of heterogeneous reactions in the polar stratosphere. The formation of PSCs depends strongly ...

Observations made by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), theCloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO), and CloudSat are synergistically used to evaluate the accuracy of theoretical simulations of the radiances at the top of the atmosphere (TOA). Specifically, TOA radiances of 15 MODIS bands are sim...

43 The new level 3 aerosol profile data derived from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and 44 Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) provide multi-year global 45 aerosol distribution with high vertical resolution. We analyzed seasonal and diurnal 46 variations of the vertical distributions of aerosol properties represented by this 47 CALIPSO data for the period of five years. Results show t...