Zhaoyan Liu

TL;DR: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-wavelength polarization lidar that performs global profiling of aerosols and clouds in the troposphere and lower stratosphere as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extinction-to-backscatter ratio (lidar ratio) selection scheme for the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) aerosol products is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use measurements from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (Mie-Lidar) to map the transport of dust clouds generated during a storm in China's Taklimakan Desert during May 2007, and show that the dust-veiled clouds were lofted to the upper troposphere around 8-10 km above the Earth's surface and transported more than one full circuit around the globe in about 13 days.

TL;DR: An in-depth overview of the architecture and performance of the SIBYL algorithm is provided, which accomplishes its goals by integrating an adaptive context-sensitive profile scanner into an iterated multiresolution spatial averaging scheme.

TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical basis of the CALIPSO lidar cloud and aerosol discrimination (CAD) algorithm is reviewed and enhancements made to the version 2 algorithm that is used in the current data release (release 2).