CALIOP Calibration: Version 4.0 Algorithm Updates

CALIPSO/CALIOP Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm

The current cloud thermodynamic phase discrimination by Cloud-Aerosol Lidar Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) is based on the depolarization of backscattered light measured by its lidar [CloudAerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP)]. It assumes that backscattered light from ice crystals is depolarizing, whereas water clouds, being spherical, result in minimal depolarizatio...

CALIOP Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Part 3: Scene Classification Algorithms

Recent Updates of the Calibration-Free Evapotranspiration Mapping (CREMAP) Method

Imaging/calibration algorithm research

This note discusses the proposed plan for research on imaging and calibration algorithm development related to EVLA/ALMA. Attempt here is to describe briefly a work plan to address two problems which will need to be addressed in a few years from now, which also look tractable and towards which some work has already been done. In the sections below, the problems of continuum imaging with a bandw...

On Consistent Updates in Software Defined Networks (Extended Version)

We argue for the development of efficient methods to update the data plane state of an SDN, while maintaining desired consistency properties (e.g., no packet should be dropped). We highlight the inherent trade-off between the strength of the consistency property and dependencies it imposes among rules at different switches; these dependencies fundamentally limit how quickly data plane can be up...