The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) flown aboard the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) platform has been providing unique vertical profile measurements of the Earth’s atmosphere on a global scale since June 2006 (Winker et al., 2010). Data products derived from the CALIOP measurements are distributed worldwide from the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) located at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center (LaRC). In addition to detailed spatial and optical properties of detected layers, CALIOP also provides essential information on layer types for both clouds and aerosols.