CERES Level 4
Entry Title: CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) TOA and Surface Monthly means data in netCDF Edition 4.1
Entry ID: CERES_EBAF_Edition4.1
Clouds Radiation Budget
Publications
Shaw, Jonah K.; Kay, Jennifer E. (2023). Processes Controlling the Seasonally Varying Emergence of Forced Arctic Longwave Radiation Changes.
Ghausi, Sarosh Alam; Tian, Yinglin; Zehe, Erwin; Kleidon, Axel (2023). Radiative controls by clouds and thermodynamics shape surface temperatures and turbulent fluxes over land.
Huang, Han; Huang, Yi (2023). Diagnosing the Radiation Biases in Global Climate Models Using Radiative Kernels.
Cordero, Raúl R.; Feron, Sarah; Damiani, Alessandro; Sepúlveda, Edgardo; Jorquera, Jose; Redondas, Alberto; Seckmeyer, Gunther; Carrasco, Jorge; Rowe, Penny; Ouyang, Zutao (2023). Surface Solar Extremes in the Most Irradiated Region on Earth, Altiplano.
Tomassini, Lorenzo; Willett, Martin; Sellar, Alistair; Lock, Adrian; Walters, David; Whitall, Michael; Sanchez, Claudio; Heming, Julian; Earnshaw, Paul; Rodriguez, José M.; Ackerley, Duncan; Xavier, Prince; Franklin, Charmaine; Senior, Catherine A. (2023). Confronting the Convective Gray Zone in the Global Configuration of the Met Office Unified Model.
Li, Donghao; Folini, Doris; Wild, Martin (2023). Assessment of Top of Atmosphere, Atmospheric and Surface Energy Budgets in CMIP6 Models on Regional Scales.
Jönsson, Aiden R.; Bender, Frida A.-M. (2023). The implications of maintaining Earth's hemispheric albedo symmetry for shortwave radiative feedbacks.
Hohenegger, Cathy; Korn, Peter; Linardakis, Leonidas; Redler, René; Schnur, Reiner; Adamidis, Panagiotis; Bao, Jiawei; Bastin, Swantje; Behravesh, Milad; Bergemann, Martin; Biercamp, Joachim; Bockelmann, Hendryk; Brokopf, Renate; Brüggemann, Nils; Casaroli, Lucas; Chegini, Fatemeh; Datseris, George; Esch, Monika; George, Geet; Giorgetta, Marco; Gutjahr, Oliver; Haak, Helmuth; Hanke, Moritz; Ilyina, Tatiana; Jahns, Thomas; Jungclaus, Johann; Kern, Marcel; Klocke, Daniel; Kluft, Lukas; Kölling, Tobias; Kornblueh, Luis; Kosukhin, Sergey; Kroll, Clarissa; Lee, Junhong; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Mehlmann, Carolin; Mieslinger, Theresa; Naumann, Ann Kristin; Paccini, Laura; Peinado, Angel; Praturi, Divya Sri; Putrasahan, Dian; Rast, Sebastian; Riddick, Thomas; Roeber, Niklas; Schmidt, Hauke; Schulzweida, Uwe; Schütte, Florian; Segura, Hans; Shevchenko, Radomyra; Singh, Vikram; Specht, Mia; Stephan, Claudia Christine; Von Storch, Jin-Song; Vogel, Raphaela; Wengel, Christian; Winkler, Marius; Ziemen, Florian; Marotzke, Jochem; Stevens, Bjorn (2023). ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales.
Wang, Huanhuan; Yue, Chao; Luyssaert, Sebastiaan (2023). Reconciling different approaches to quantifying land surface temperature impacts of afforestation using satellite observations.
Smoliak, Brian V; Gelobter, Michel; Haley, Jeff T (2021). Mapping potential surface contributions to reflected solar radiation.
Wright, Jonathon S.; Sun, Xiaoyi; Konopka, Paul; Krüger, Kirstin; Legras, Bernard; Molod, Andrea M.; Tegtmeier, Susann; Zhang, Guang J.; Zhao, Xi (2018). Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts.
Alexandri, Georgia; Georgoulias, Aristeidis K.; Balis, Dimitris (2018). Effect of Aerosols, Tropospheric NO2 and Clouds on Surface Solar Radiation over the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece).
Wu, Wen‐Ying; Yang, Zong‐Liang (2017). Aridity‐Dependent Land Surface Skin Temperature Biases in CMIP5/6.
Ghausi, Sarosh Alam; Ghosh, Subimal; Kleidon, Axel (2016). Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling.
Lee, Jae N.; Wu, Dong L. (2015). Non‐Gaussian Distributions of TOA SW Flux as Observed by MISR and CERES.
Lauer, Axel; Bock, Lisa; Hassler, Birgit; Schröder, Marc; Stengel, Martin (2012). Cloud Climatologies from Global Climate Models—A Comparison of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models with Satellite Data.
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- CERES EBAF-TOA Data Set Abstract
- CERES Overview of Aqua
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- Unidata Overview of Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: Clouds in the Balance
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Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- LONGWAVE RADIATION
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- SOLAR RADIATION
- CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
- OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
- CLOUD FRACTION > CLOUD PROPERTIES
- RADIATIVE FLUX
- NET RADIATION
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- All-Sky TOA (Top of Atmosphere) Net Balanced Flux
- Clear-Sky (Spatially Complete) TOA (Top of Atmosphere) Net Balanced Flux
- Cloud Radiative Forcing
- Cloud Effective Temperature
- Cloud Effective Pressure
- Surface
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
NetCDF-4
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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
GLOBAL
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 2000-03-01 - 2022-04-01