ASDC | CER_SSF1deg-Hour_Terra-MODIS

CERES Level 3

Entry Title: CERES Regionally Averaged TOA Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Hourly Terra Edition4A

Entry ID: CER_SSF1deg-Hour_Terra-MODIS_Edition4A

Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget

Description

CER_SSF1deg-Hour_Terra-MODIS_Edition4A is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Regionally Averaged Top of Atmosphere (TOA) Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Hourly Terra Edition4A data product, which was collected using the CERES Flight Model 1 (FM1) and FM2 instruments on the Terra platform. Data collection for this product is in progress.

CERES Single Scanner Footprint One Degree (SSF1deg) Day provides daily averages of regional constant meteorology temporally interpolated 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 (WN) wavelength bands. The incoming solar daily irradiance is from the SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) and 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 follow the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument, the 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.

DOI

10.5067/TERRA/CERES/SSF1DEGHOUR_L3.004

Citation Styles for this Dataset

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

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ANOMALIES

DATA CITATION POLICY

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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

MICRO ARTICLE

PROCESSING HISTORY

PRODUCTION HISTORY

CERES Data Products Catalog
CERES Input Data Sources

PUBLICATIONS

Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Estimation from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Instrument on the Terra Satellite. Part II: Validation

READ-ME

USER'S GUIDE

From GCMD Science Keywords:

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

Cloud Base Pressure
Cloud Infrared Emissivity
Cloud Layer Area
Cloud Particle Phase
Ice Particle Raidus
Ice Water Path
Liquid Water Path
Longwave (LW) Flux
Shortwave (SW) Flux
Surface (Radiative) Flux
Surface Type
TOA (Top of Atmosphere) Flux
Visible Optical Depth
Water Particle Radius
Window (Wn) Flux

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: Not provided
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2000-03-01 - Present

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

Terra

Earth Observing System, TERRA (AM-1)

CERES-FM1

Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 1

Total Detector Shortwave Detector Window Detector

CERES-FM2

Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 2