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Partners: Home
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In addition to the partners listed below, a host of U.S. and international universities and research centers provide support to the Science Team, including aircraft and ground-based observations for algorithm development and validation purposes.
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| Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Scientific guidance for CloudSat is provided by the Principal Investigator (Prof. Graeme Stephens) and his team at Colorado State University. Educational Outreach for CloudSat is also managed at CSU.
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| Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
JPL provides mission management for CloudSat, including design, construction, and implementation of CloudSat's sole instrument, the Cloud Profiling Radar.
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| Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado
BATC, under contract with JPL, provides the spacecraft, I&T support, and support to mission operations.
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| Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at CSU operates the CloudSat Data Processing Center, which processes and distributes CloudSat data. The PI and selected co-investigators provide data product software and quality control of the data processing activity at CIRA.
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| NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, Hampton, Virginia
The Atmospheric Sciences Data Center at NASA Langley Research Center delivers subsetted data products from CALIPSO to the CloudSat Data Processing Center at CIRA.
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| Goddard Earth Sciences Data and information Services Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
The Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center delivers subsetted data products from MODIS to the CloudSat Data Processing Center at CIRA.
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| European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts provides meteorological forecast data fields to CIRA for use in processing CloudSat data products.
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| Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency provided the Extended Interaction Klystron (EIK) and the receiver for CloudSat's Cloud Profiling Radar. CSA is also supporting the Canadian CloudSat validation activities.
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| Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, U. S. Department of Energy
The U. S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program provides data validation and algorithm development support.
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| The GLOBE Program, Boulder, Colorado
The international GLOBE Program is CloudSat's premier education partner with a
subset of GLOBE schools (CloudSat Education Network) from around the world
providing ground-based observations to mission scientists.
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