Description

The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), launched on January 10 2015, is a lidar remote sensing instrument that will provide range-resolved profile measurements of atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International Space Station (ISS). CATS is intended to operate on-orbit for at least six months, and up to three years. CATS will provide vertical profiles at three wavelengths, orbiting between ~230 and ~270 miles above the Earth's surface at a 51-degree inclination with nearly a three-day repeat cycle. For the first time, it will allow scientist to study diurnal (day-to-night) changes in cloud and aerosol effects from space by observing the same spot on Earth at different times each day.L1B data that have been calibrated, annotated with ancillary meteorological data, and processed to sensor units.

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Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

PROJECT HOME PAGE

CATS project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

DATA CITATION POLICY

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for CATS

PRODUCT USAGE

• CATS Data Release Notes, L1B Version 2.08, L2O Version 2.00, L2O Version 2.01

PRODUCTION HISTORY

• CATS Data Management System Data Products Catalog Release 7.0
• CATS Data Management System Data Products Catalog, Release 6.0

PUBLICATIONS

• NASA Earth Observatory Article: A Slice of Cirrus
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: Blue Marble, Eastern Hemisphere
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: Dust and Clouds Dance Over the Sahara
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: Nighttime View of Raung Volcanic Plume

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