Data Access
AIM/CIPS (Cloud Imaging and Particle Size) data are available in multiple
processing levels: 1a (calibrated and geolocated albedo); 1b (map-
projected albedo at 5km x 5km resolution); 1c (same as 1b, but with
Rayleigh scattering background subtracted); 2 (imagery for 15 orbit-
specific strips per day, built from 1c data); 3a (daily "daisies"
built as composites over level 2 data); 3b (seasonal movies built
from level 3a data); 4 (cloud properties such as ice water content
and particle radius extracted from lower level data). Data files
for levels 2, 3a and 4 are accessible from
http://aim.hamptonu.edu/sds/cal_index_aim.php?instrument=cips,
with level 2 and 4 data as gzipped netCDF's and level 3a imagery in
PNG format. Brief descriptions of data levels, browse imagery, and
links to fuller data documentation files at LASP are available from
http://aim.hamptonu.edu/library/documentation/instruments/cips/cips_docs.html
Data are available over each polar region about 4 months each year,
during that region's summer.(
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AIM/CIPS (Cloud Imaging and Particle Size) data are available in multiple
processing levels: 1a (calibrated and geolocated albedo); 1b (map-
projected albedo at 5km x 5km resolution); 1c (same as 1b, but with
Rayleigh scattering background subtracted); 2 (imagery for 15 orbit-
specific strips per day, built from 1c data); 3a (daily "daisies"
built as composites over level 2 data); 3b (seasonal movies built
from level 3a data); 4 (cloud properties such as ice water content
and particle radius extracted from lower level data). Data files
for levels 2, 3a and 4 are accessible from
http://aim.hamptonu.edu/sds/cal_index_aim.php?instrument=cips,
with level 2 and 4 data as gzipped netCDF's and level 3a imagery in
PNG format. Brief descriptions of data levels, browse imagery, and
links to fuller data documentation files at LASP are available from
http://aim.hamptonu.edu/library/documentation/instruments/cips/cips_docs.html
Data are available over each polar region about 4 months each year,
during that region's summer.(
| Role | Person | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | GeneralContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Cora.Randall |
In CDF via FTP from CDAWeb
In CDF via HTTP from CDAWeb
For levels 2, 3a, 4 only; see InformationURL for other data
For levels 2, 3a, 4 only; see InformationURL for other data