ASDC | CER_SSF1deg-Day_NOAA20-VIIRS

CERES Level 3

Entry Title: CERES Time-Interpolated TOA Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Daily NOAA-20 Edition1B

Entry ID: CER_SSF1deg-Day_NOAA20-VIIRS_Edition1B

Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget

Description

The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Single Scanner Footprint One Degree (SSF1deg) Day provides daily averages of regional constant meteorology temporally interpolated CERES Top of Atmosphere (TOA) fluxes, clouds derived from a co-located imager and aerosols on a 1-degree latitude and longitude grid. This single satellite product uses the primary CERES instrument in cross-track mode. TOA fluxes are provided for clear-sky and all-sky conditions for longwave (LW), shortwave (SW), and window wavelength bands. The incoming solar daily irradiance is from the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment SORCE), Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). The cloud properties are averaged for day and night (24-hour) and day-only periods. Cloud properties are stratified into four atmospheric layers (surface-700 hPa, 700 hPa - 500 hPa, 500 hPa - 300 hPa, 300 hPa - 100 hPa) and a total of all layers. The aerosols are averaged instantaneous values from the co-located imager.

CERES is a key Earth Observing System (EOS) program component. 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 (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 EOS flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board EOS Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES instrument (FM5) 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 on November 18, 2017.

DOI

10.5067/NOAA20/CERES/SSF1DEGDAY_L3.001B

Citation Styles for this Dataset

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES

DATA CITATION POLICY

How to cite ASDC data

DATA QUALITY

Quality Summary: CERES_SSF1deg-Hour/Day/Month_Ed4A (3/13/2018)

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

HOW-TO

Directions on downloading and installing the HDF libraries

PRODUCT HISTORY

CERES Input Data Sources

PRODUCTION HISTORY

CERES Data Products Catalog

READ-ME

HDF Scientific Data Set (SDS) Information Utility Readme

USER'S GUIDE

CERES Data Management System View HDF User's Guide - Version 5.0, November 2007

From GCMD Science Keywords:

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD HEIGHT > CLOUD PROPERTIES
OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION
CLOUD DROPLET CONCENTRATION/SIZE > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
SHORTWAVE RADIATION
INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
CLOUD EMISSIVITY > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER
RADIATIVE FLUX
CLOUD BASE TEMPERATURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
LONGWAVE RADIATION
WIND SPEED > SURFACE WINDS
AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD FRACTION > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD TOP PRESSURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
SURFACE PRESSURE
SKIN TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SOLAR IRRADIANCE
ALBEDO
CLOUD BASE PRESSURE > CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
NET RADIATION
TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

HDF4

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL TROPOSPHERE

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2018-05-01 - Present

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

NOAA-20

Joint Polar Satellite System - 1

CERES-FM6

Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 6

Total Detector Shortwave Detector Longwave Detector

VIIRS

Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite

Metadata Dates

Created on 2021-10-22

Last updated on 2023-11-13