The decades-long Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Project includes both cloud radiation measurements from instruments on the Aqua, Terra, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellites. To build a reliable long-term climate data record, it is important to determine accuracies of parameters retrieved sensors each satellite. Cloud amount, phase, top height derived rad...

Detection of subsurface returns from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) on the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite were demonstrated. Despite the coarse range resolution of this aerosol lidar, evidence of subsurface scattering was observed as a delay and broadening of the cross-polarized signal relative to the co-polar...

Abstract. Following the release of version 4 Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data products from and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, a new (version 4; V4) CALIPSO Imaging Radiometer (IIR) Level 2 has been developed. The IIR include cloud effective emissivities microphysical properties such as diameter ice or liquid water path estimates. Ded...