I want to analyze and retrieve aerosol through CALIPSO but I am having a problem in reading the CALIPSO data, please suggest me some software and how I can retrieve aerosol from that
there is a lot of data from CALIPSO - please, specify the source and the version. Usually this data is either in HDF or in netCDF format, which can be read if a corresponding library is installed for the language of programming you use. For the first acquaintance, you may use a standalone HDFView package to inspect the contents of the file.
You wll need an HDF library and IDL or Matlab to use their examples. Another option is to program everything yourself in Fortran or C using HDF library for this language.