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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- PARASOL
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Full Name
Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from a LIDAR
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
CNES
Launch Date
18 Dec 2004
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
11 Oct 2013
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
28498
(
TLE
)
International Designator
2004-049G
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98.8 minutes
Orbit Sense
TBD
Orbit Inclination
98.2 deg
Orbit Altitude
705 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
13:30
Repeat Cycle
16 days
Objectives and Applications
Micro-satellite with the aim of characterisation of the clouds and aerosols microphysical and radiative properties, needed to understand and model the radiative impact of clouds and aerosols.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Atmosphere
Aerosols
POLDER-P
Land
Albedo and reflectance
POLDER-P
Mission Instruments
POLDER-P - POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances (PARASOL version)
OpenSearch Datasets
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ICARE Cloud-Aerosol-Water-Radiation Interactions Data Products
PARASOL collection: BRDF
PARASOL collection: Commissioning
PARASOL collection: Level-1
PARASOL collection: Level-2
PARASOL collection: Level-3
PARASOL collection: Off-pointing
PARASOL collection: Processing chain
PARASOL experiment: PARASOL
POLDER/Parasol L2 Radiation Budget subset along CloudSat track V001 (PARASOLRB_CPR) at GES DISC
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