An illustration of the space-based CALIPSO lidar satellite. Illustration: NASA/Timothy Marvel After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA’s lidar satellite mission ...
U.S. and French cloud-monitoring satellites were successfully orbited April 28 by a Boeing Delta 2 rocket launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base — a launch that had been delayed for ...
ABSTRACT Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) infrared-based cloud-thermodynamic-phase retrievals are evaluated using the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) ...