Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2831-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2831-2024
Data description paper
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19 Jun 2024
Data description paper |  | 19 Jun 2024

A Level 3 monthly gridded ice cloud dataset derived from 12 years of CALIOP measurements

David Winker, Xia Cai, Mark Vaughan, Anne Garnier, Brian Magill, Melody Avery, and Brian Getzewich

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CALIPSO Level 3 Ice Cloud Product D. M. Winker et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/CALIOP/CALIPSO/L3_ICE_CLOUD-STANDARD-V1-00

DARDAR CLOUD - Heymfield composite mass-size relationship J. Delanoë https://doi.org/10.25326/449

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Short summary
Clouds play important roles in both weather and climate. In this paper we describe version 1.0 of a unique global ice cloud data product derived from over 12 years of global spaceborne lidar measurements. This monthly gridded product provides a unique vertically resolved characterization of the occurrence and properties, optical and physical, of thin ice clouds and the tops of deep convective clouds. It should provide significant value for cloud research and model evaluation.
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