The data processing center will produce nine Level 1B and
Level 2B Standard Data Products:
1B-CPR | Level 1B Received echo powers |
2B-GEOPROF | Cloud mask and radar reflectivities |
2B-CLDCLASS | Cloud Classification |
2B-CWC-RO | Radar-only liquid/ice water content |
2B-TAU | Cloud optical depth |
2B-CWC-RVOD | Radar + visible optical depth liquid/ice water content |
2B-FLXHR | Radiative fluxes and heating rates |
2B-GEOPROF-Lidar | CloudSat CPR + CALIPSO Lidar Cloud mask |
Use the following resources to learn about and obtain CloudSat data:
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File Naming Convention
YYYYDDDHHMMSS = | Year, Julian day, hour, minute, second of the first data contained in the file (UTC) |
NNNNN = | Granule number |
CS = | Literal "CS" indicating the CloudSat mission |
2B-TAU = | Product name |
GRANULE = | Indicates the data subset ("GRANULE" if the data are not subset) |
S = | Data Set identifier ("P" for production release) |
RVV = | Release number |
EVV = | Epoch number |
.hdf = | HDF-EOS file suffix |
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Example: |
CloudSat data products are made available in HDF-EOS format and are created with HDF-EOS 2.5 based on HDF 4.1r2.
Later versions of the HDF and HDF-EOS libraries should be able to manipulate the files as long as they are
in the HDF 4 series. Files delivered through the online ordering system are compressed (.zip).
Note: Publications or presentations that use CloudSat data must acknowledge the NASA CloudSat project.
Please also inform the project of any such publications by submitting the full reference at
http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/reference.php.
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