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CERES-MODIS-VIIRS and hourly geostationary cloud properties stratified by ISCCP cloud types for day and night.
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/terra-noaa20/ceres/cldtyphist_l3.004
Description
CER_CldTypHist_GEO-MODIS-VIIRS_Edition4A is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)- Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) and hourly geostationary cloud properties stratified by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) cloud types for day and night Edition 4A data product. Data collection is ongoing. The CERES-MODIS-VIIRS and hourly geostationary cloud properties (CldTypHist) data product contain monthly and one-hourly gridded regional mean cloud properties as a function of 18 cloud types, where the cloud properties are stratified by pressure, optical depth, and phase.
Data is available day and night. The CldTypHist product combines cloud properties from Terra-MODIS (10:30 AM local equator crossing time LECT), NOAA20-VIIRS (1:30 PM LECT), and geostationary satellites (GEO) to provide the most diurnally complete product. The GEO cloud properties have been normalized with MODIS for diurnal consistency.
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The CERES MODIS-derived cloud properties are not the official NASA MODIS cloud retrievals but are based on the CERES cloud working group retrievals that are also available in other CERES products. Likewise, CERES-VIIRS cloud properties are not the official NASA VIIRS cloud retrievals but are based on the CERES cloud working group retrievals that are also available in other CERES products. The CERES MODIS-derived and VIIRS-derived cloud properties provide coverage from pole to pole.
The hourly GEO cloud properties come from five satellites at 8km nominal resolution with coverage limited to equatorward of 60 degrees. The GEO cloud retrievals incorporate additional channels as they become available on improved geostationary satellites that replaced earlier ones in the time period. The geostationary calibration is normalized to Terra-MODIS.
Each CldTypHist file covers a single month. 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, the proto flight 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 onboard the Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship Terra on December 18, 1999.
Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched onboard Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES FM5 instrument was launched onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011. The newest CERES instrument (FM6) was launched onboard the Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite, now called NOAA-20, on November 18, 2017.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/terra-noaa20/ceres/cldtyphist_l3.004 ↗
DOI data set landing page for CER_CldTypHist_GEO-MODIS-VIIRS_Edition4A
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/CERES_ATBDs.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/2654/aqua-ceres-first-light ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: Aqua CERES First Light: Image of the Day - The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is one of six on board the Aqua satellite.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/563/ceres-detects-earths-heat-and-energy ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: CERES Detects Earth's Heat and Energy: Image of the Day - Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) monitors solar energy reflected from the Earth and heat e
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/36518/ceres-global-cloud-fraction ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: CERES Global Cloud Fraction - Each map combines observations from the CERES sensors on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites collected on December 27, 2008
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/600/first-monthly-ceres-global-longwave-and-shortwave-r… ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: First Monthly CERES Global Longwave and Shortwave Radiation - These measurements were acquired by NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors du
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps/CERES_NETFLUX_M ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: Net Radiation - The measurements were made by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.
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- How to cite ASDC data asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/AM1/terra_animations.php ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: Terra Spacecraft Fact Sheet - Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) CERES will measure the Earth's energy balance—comparing the amount of energy from the
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/84930/the-arctic-is-absorbing-more-sunlight ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: The Arctic Is Absorbing More Sunlight - The radiation measurements were made by NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments which fly on mul
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Water/page4.php ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: The Water Cycle - MODIS, CERES, and AIRS all collect data relevant to the study of clouds.
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- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/tools-and-services ↗
Overview of view hdf: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files
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- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/examples.pdf ↗
ASDC List of CERES Examples: Spatial Extent and Scan Modes
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- CERES Documentation ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation ↗
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- CERES Input Data Sources ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info ↗
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- CERES Overview of Aqua ceres.larc.nasa.gov/instruments/satellite-missions ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- View HDF Version 5 Readme asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/README.txt ↗
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- Resource earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Observing/obs_5.php ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: Space-based Observations of the Earth (Thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface and clouds on March 1, 2000 as seen by the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy S
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- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/quality_summaries/CERES_CldTypHist_Ed4A_DQS.pdf ↗
Quality Summary: CERES_CldTypHist_Ed4A (6/1/2017)
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880508421-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- CERES Subsetting and Browsing Tool ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/jsp/CldTypHistEd41Selection.jsp ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3880508421-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CER_CldTypHist_GEO-MODIS-VIIRS_Edition4A (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
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- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C3880508421-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Virtual Directory for CER_CldTypHist_GEO-MODIS-VIIRS_Edition4A
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- Resource terra.nasa.gov/?section=60 ↗
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- Resource ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data ↗
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- Resource ceres.larc.nasa.gov ↗
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- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/ceres-modis-viirs-and-hourly-geostationary-cloud-prope… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Documentation and papers
- asdc.larc.nasa.gov /documents/ceres/guide/cer_cldtyphist.pdf ↗
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Hourly Cloud Properties Stratified by ISCCP Cloud Types for Day and Night (CldTypHist) Data Set Abstract
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880508421-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=148c5da2-4b92-43f3-a0f2-57ff2c06a… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880508421-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size · Cloud Emissivity · Cloud Fraction · Cloud Liquid Water/Ice · Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness · Cloud Top Height · Cloud Top Pressure · Cloud Top Temperature · Cloud Types · Earth Observing System, Terra (AM-1) · Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer · National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-20 · Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 70% · Imaging 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 29 field assertions
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| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3880508421-LARC_CLOUD | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 148c5da2-4b92-43f3-a0f2-57ff2c06a694 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (70%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:modis | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:viirs | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-microphysics/cloud-droplet-concentration-size | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-microphysics/cloud-liquid-water-ice | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-microphysics/cloud-optical-depth-thickness | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties/cloud-fraction | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties/cloud-top-height | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties/cloud-top-pressure | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-properties/cloud-top-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-radiative-transfer/cloud-emissivity | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-types | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:noaa-20 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:terra | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
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| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |