Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Data Processing Centers (DPC)
facilitycomputing, data & operations centerIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- CIRA
Description
CIRA's Data Processing Centers for NASA's CloudSat and INCUS missions. The CloudSat DPC processes the 94 GHz radar's reflectivity into cloud microphysics, precipitation and cloud radiative products and has distributed more than 105 million files (over 3.7 petabytes); CIRA is building the Science Data Processing Center for INCUS, planned to put three cloud radars and one radiometer into orbit in 2026.
Official page
https://www.cira.colostate.edu/teams/dpc/
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Details
- Keywords
- cloudsat, incus mission, cloud microphysics retrievals, science data processing, satellite data distribution
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Associated entity
- Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere » Data Processing Centers (DPC)
- Specifications
- CloudSat carried a 94 GHz radar measuring the vertical distribution of cloud reflectivity around the world from a low-Earth, sun-synchronous polar orbit.