Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
2B-GEOPROF (CloudSat data product)
datasetobservational / measurementIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRA; NASA
Description
CloudSat 2B-GEOPROF product identifying the vertical levels with significant radar echo from hydrometeors and estimating the radar reflectivity factor, with a MODIS cloud mask; release P1_R05 in NetCDF and HDF-EOS.
Official page
https://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/data-products/2b-geoprof
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- Access summary
- download
- Download or access
- CloudSat products will remain available via this website through September 27th, 2026, after which they can be obtained from NASA Earthdata Cloud in NetCDF format.
Contact
- Contact
- (no name)
Details
- Keywords
- radar echo detection, radar reflectivity, hydrometeors, cloud mask, hdf-eos
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Associated entity
- CloudSat Data Processing Center (DPC), CIRA
- Identifier
- 2B-GEOPROF P1_R05
- Status
- Current Epoch: Epoch 10
- Deployment platform
- CloudSat (94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, CPR)
- Specifications
- Algorithm Specifications table: 11 geolocation fields + 21 data fields (type, dimensions, units, valid range, missing value, factor, offset per field)