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  • EarthCARE_CPR_L1B_CPR_NOM
  • EarthCARE/CPR L1B CPR one-sensor Received Echo Power Products and Doppler Product
  • 2025-01-14 00:00:00
  • EarthCARE/CPR/EarthCARE_CPR L1B received power dataset is obtained from the Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) sensor onboard Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) Satellite and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). EarthCARE Satellite carries four observation sensors: a cloud profiling radar(CPR), an atmospheric lidar(ATLID), a multi-wavelength imager(MSI), and a broadband radiation balance meter(BBR). The main purposes of EarthCARE are to globally observe the distribution and vertical structure of clouds and aerosols (fine particles such as dust and dirt present in the atmosphere), as well as the radiant energy at the top of the atmosphere. The purpose of this project is to contribute to improving the accuracy of climate change prediction by considering the behavior of clouds and aerosols and their impact on the Earth's climate, incorporating the obtained knowledge into numerical climate models, and constraining the large uncertainties in cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions within numerical climate models. EarthCARE Satellite was launched on 28/05/2024(UTC).EarthCARE Satellite can observe a range from approximately 90 degrees south latitude to approximately 90 degrees north latitude, and flies in a sun-synchronous subrecurrent orbit (number of return days: 25 days) at an altitude of approximately 400 km. The vertical resolution of CPR is approximately 500m.In CPR level 1B standard processing, a level 1 product is read as input data, and the product outputs data containing a received echo power, radar reflectivity factor, NRCS (normalized surface scattering cross section), doppler velocity, spectrum width, and data flag and geometric information, such as observation positions. During the course of processing, radiometric correction is carried out, missing data is processed based on missing data information, scan time is corrected and geometric calculation of the time, latitude, longitude, and height of each piece of scan data in each range bin is performed.The file format is HDF5, but it's compatible with NetCDF4. It is divided into header and science data sections. The sampling resolution is 500 m (horizontal) and 500 m (vertical). The current version of the product is version C. The generation unit is 1/8 orbit(1 frame).
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  • 10.57746/EO.01jdvcydwjf63vpdbjp0vz6v64
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  • 2024-06-12 00:00:00 /
  • EarthCARE
  • CPR
  • DIF10
  • EARTH SCIENCE
  • SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
  • RADAR
  • Cloud Profiling Radar
  • Received echo power
  • Radar reflectivity factor
  • NRCS (normalized surface scattering cross section)
  • Doppler velocity
  • Spectrum width
  • Data flag
  • HDF5