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- [Source: NASA Science Missions Directorate, http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/calipso ]
The CALIPSO satellite was developed to help scientists answer significant questions and provide new information about the effects of clouds and aerosols (airborne particles) on changes in the Earth's climate. Understanding these components will provide the international science community with a more comprehensive data set that is essential for a better understanding of the Earth's climatic processes. Accurate climate model predictions will provide international and national leaders accurate information to make more informed policy decisions about global climate change. CALIPSO flies a 3-channel lidar with a suite of passive instruments in formation with Aqua to obtain coincident observations of radiative fluxes and atmospheric conditions. This enables new observationally based assessments of the radiative effects of aerosol and clouds that will greatly improve out ability to predict future climate change. CloudSat also flies in formation with CALIPSO to provide a comprehensive characterization of the structure and composition of clouds and their effects on climate under all weather conditions. This comprehensive set of measurements is essential for accurate quantification of global aerosol and cloud radiative effects to understand their role in formation and variation of Earth's climate. This is a cooperative mission with France. For more information on CALIPSO, see: http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: CALIPSO Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: EOS (Earth Observing System) Short_Name: CALIPSO Long_Name: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: WFC Short_Name: CALIOP Short_Name: IIR End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 705 km Orbit_Inclination: 98.2 degrees Period: 99 minutes Repeat_Cycle: 16 days Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-04-17 Online_Resource: http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/ Online_Resource: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/calipso Online_Resource: https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/calipso/calipso_table Sample_Image: http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/about/images/A-Train_Mar02_01.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2006-04-28 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA Design_Life: 3 years Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA Primary_Sponsor: FRANCE/CNES Primary_Sponsor: Alcatel End_Group End_Group
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- Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
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| Abstract from DBPedia | CALIPSO is a joint NASA (USA) and CNES (France) environmental satellite, built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28, 2006. Its name stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations. CALIPSO Launched Alongside CloudSat. Passive and active remote sensing Instruments on board the CALIPSO satellite monitor aerosols and clouds 24 hours a day. CALIPSO is part of the "A Train", flying in formation with several other satellites (Aqua, Aura and CloudSat).CALIPSO（Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations）はアメリカ航空宇宙局とフランス国立宇宙研究センター共同による地球観測衛星。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/CALIPSO) |
