Abstract:
This is AIRS-AMSU-CloudSat collocation indexes, in ASCII format. These data maps CloudSat profile indexes to the collocated AMSU field of views, and AIRS IR footprints, per AIRS 6-min granule time. Hence it can be considered as Level 1. These data are created within the frames of the MEaSUREs project.
The basic task is to bring together retrievals of water vapor and cloud properties
from multiple
... “A-train” instruments (AIRS, AMSR-E, MODIS, AMSU, MLS, &
CloudSat), classify each “scene” (instrument look) using the cloud information,
and develop a merged, multi-sensor climatology of atmospheric water vapor as a
function of altitude, stratified by the cloud classes. This is a large science
analysis project that will require the use of SciFlo technologies to discover and
organize all of the datasets, move and cache datasets as required, find
space/time “matchups” between pairs of instruments, and process years of
satellite data to produce the climate data records. 
