Description

The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Single Scanner Footprint One Degree (SSF1deg) Month provides monthly 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. One degree zonally and global averaged values for the parameters are also provided. This is a single satellite product that 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 Experiment9 SORCE), Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). The cloud properties are averaged for both day and night (24-hour) and day-only time periods. Cloud properties are stratified into 4 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 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 (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.

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Resources and Documentation

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CERES Data Products Browse, Subset, and Order

CERES Data Products Browse, Subset, and Order: Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) 1degree

PROJECT HOME PAGE

CERES project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

• NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES

DATA CITATION POLICY

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for CERES
• CERES General Product Info
• CERES Overview of NOAA-20
• CERES Processing Level Details
• CERES Product Level Details
• CERES Time-Interpolated TOA/Surface Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols(SSF1deg-Day/Month)Data Set Abstract
• HDF Science Data Set (SDS) Information Tool Overview
• HDF data manipulation software (applications to open a Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) file and display a browse image and/or data file information)
• Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Overview
• View HDF: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files (overview of and resources for using view_hdf)

HOW-TO

• Directions on downloading and installing the HDF libraries

PRODUCT HISTORY

• CERES Input Data Sources

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

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

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

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