ASDC | CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE08_SH

CERES Level 2

Entry Title: SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 GOES-8 Southern Hemisphere Version 1.0

Entry ID: CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE08_SH_V01

Clouds Radiation Budget

Description

CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE08_SH_V01 is the Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Geostationary Satellite (GEO) Edition 4 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8 (GOES-8) over the Southern Hemisphere (SH) Version 1.0 data product. Data was collected using the GOES-8 Imager on the GOES-8 Platform. Data collection for this product is complete.

This data set is comprised of cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived hourly from GOES-8 geostationary satellite imager data using the Langley Research Center (LARC) SATCORPS algorithms in support of the CERES project. The cloud micro-physical and radiation properties from each active geostationary satellite are merged together to create hourly global cloud properties that are used to estimate fluxes between CERES instrument measurements to account for the changing diurnal cycle. The data set is arranged as files for each hour and in netCDF-4 format. The observations are at 4-km resolution (at nadir) and are sub-sampled to 8 km.

CERES is a key component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) program. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions are a follow-on to the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument, protoflight model (PFM), was launched on November 27, 1997 as part of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Two CERES instruments (FM1 and FM2) were launched into polar orbit on board the Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES FM5 instrument was launched on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011. The newest CERES instrument (FM6) was launched on board the Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite, now called NOAA-20, on November 18, 2017.

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

From GCMD Science Keywords:

CLOUD MIDLAYER TEMPERATURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
CLOUD TOP PRESSURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD FRACTION > CLOUD PROPERTIES
ALBEDO
CLOUD TOP HEIGHT > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

NetCDF-4

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (-60, 0), (-120, -30)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2000-03-01 - 2003-04-01

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

GOES-8

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8

GOES-8 Imager

Metadata Dates

Created on 2017-01-11

Last updated on 2022-03-04