POLDER/PARASOL full reprocessing and new multi-sensor synergistic products – April 2017

At the end of the PARASOL mission, CNES completed the final reprocessing of Level-1 data in 2014. ICARE completed the reprocessing of the PARASOL Level-2 and Level-3 products in 2015, using revised science codes as well as new codes provided by the French science team at LOA (University of Lille).
In addition to the HDF5 version of the products, released in 2016, global gridded Level-2 and Level-3 products are also available now in HDF5 format.
The Level-2 and Level-3 products are generated from the Level-1 data alone or in combination with other data sets. PARASOL stand-alone products include the Level-2 and Level-3 data sets and the PARASOL “CALTRACK” product (subset colocated with the CALIPSO/CALIOP subtrack).
More recently, an innovative algorithm, called “GRASP” (Generalized Retrieval of Aerosol and Surface Properties), has been developed to retrieve simultaneously many more parameters compared to the standard product. Finally, the unique synergistic “PM-L2” Level-2 product is derived from combined PARASOL and Aqua/MODIS observations.

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