| Document Overiew and Contact Information |
| CloudSat Mission - Overview |
 | Artist Conception of CloudSat and A-Train Partners |
| Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) Instrument - Background |
| Artist Concept of CloudSat Satellite |
| CloudSat After Acceptance Testing at Ball Aerospace |
| Data Processing Center staff visit CloudSat at Ball Aerospace |
| CloudSat CPR Operating Characteristics, Orbit, and Data Footprint |
| Determining the Shape of the CloudSat "Footprint" |
| CloudSat Data Sampling - Conceptual Diagram |
| CloudSat System Data Flow |
| System Data Flow Diagram |
| Ancillary Data Products |
| AN-MODIS |
| AN-ECMWF |
| AN-DEM |
| Auxiliary Data Products |
| MODIS-AUX |
| MODIS-CON |
| ECMWF-AUX |
| CloudSat Standard Data Products |
| Product "Level" Definitions |
| 1A-AUX (CPR Level 0 and CloudSat Auxiliary Data Product) |
| 1B-CPR-FL (First Look) |
| 1B-CPR |
| 1B-CPR Example Image |
| 2B-GEOPROF (Geometrical Profile) |
| 2B-GEOPROF Example Image |
| 2B-CLDCLASS (Cloud Classification) |
| 2B-CLDCLASS Example Image |
| 2B-TAU (Cloud Optical Depth) |
| 2B-TAU Example Image |
| 2B-LWC (Cloud Liquid Water Content) |
| 2B-LWC Example Image |
| 2B-IWC (Cloud Ice Water Content) |
| 2B-IWC Example Image |
| 2B-FLXHR (Fluxes and Heating Rates) |
| 2B-FLXHR Example Image |
| 2B-GEOPROF-Lidar (Geometrical Profile from CloudSat and CALIPSO Lidar) |
| 2B-CLDCLASS (Cloud Classification from CloudSat and CALIPSO Lidar) |
| Level 3 products |
| Data Processing Center - Overview |
| Facilities |
| ACRC Building |
| ATS / CIRA Aerial View |
| DPC Personnel |
| DPC Manager and System Operator |
| CIRA Staff Support |
| Students |
| Operations Concept and External Interfaces |
| CloudSat DPC External Interfaces |
| CloudSat External Interface Diagram |
| Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) |
| CloudSat Data Processing Center Data Flow |
| DPC Top-Level System Data Flow Diagram |
| Hardware Components |
| Hardware Architecture |
| CloudSat DPC Network Diagram |
| Hardware Architecture diagram |
| Processing System Diagram (and data flow) |
| Software Components |
| System Software |
| Algorithm Interface Management System (AIMS) |
| CloudSat Operational and Research Environment (CORE) |
| File Management Software |
| Transfer Manager (TransferMan) |
| Rotating Archive Delete (RAD) |
| Monitoring and Control Software |
| Operator Control System (OpCON) |
| LAN Reporter |
 | LAN Reporter screen shot |
| Standard Data Product Generation Software |
| Ingest Software |
| Stored State of Health (SSOH) Data Processing |
| CPR Science Data Processing |
| Matching Time Stamps between SSOH and Science Data |
| Definitive Ephemeris Data Processing |
| Ingest Data Files Diagram |
| Ingest Data Flow (First Look) |
| Ingest Process Diagram (First Look) |
| Ingest Data Flow |
| Ingest Process Diagram |
| Level 1 Product Generation Software |
| Level 1 Data Flow |
| Level 2 Product Generation Software |
| Level 2 Data Flow |
| Level 2 Processing Diagram |
| Ancillary and Auxiliary Product Generation Software |
| Ancillary Data Flow |
| Ancillary Data Processing Diagram |
| AN-MODIS |
| AN-MODIS Processing |
| MODIS and CloudSat swath depiction |
| AN-MODIS swath depiction |
| AN-ECMWF |
| Auxiliary Data Products |
| "Generic" Auxiliary Data Processor |
| Generic Auxiliary Data Processor input array types |
| Data Distribution Software |
| Data Distribution Interface |
| DVD Data Storage Software |
| Data Inspection, Distribution, and Storage |
| Product Quality Assessment |
| Data Distribution |
| On-Line Data Distribution System |
| Data Volumes |
| Data Storage |
| References |
| CloudSat Links |