Imaging · collection · 2026
CERES Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) TOA/Surface Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols NPP-FM5 Edition2B
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/npp/ceres/ssf_npp-fm5_l2.002b
CER_SSF_NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2B is the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Level 2 observed Top of Atmosphere (ToA) broadband radiances and fluxes Edition2B data product.
Description
The CERES instrument, Flight Model (FM) 5, was launched on board the Suomi NPP satellite on October 28, 2011. The data product begins September 30, 2023, and is in progress.
The CERES footprint has a nominal 24-kilometer (km) resolution at nadir and a swath width of approximately 3,000 km. The product provides global coverage over a day. The SSF granule contains instantaneous CERES FM5 Earth viewing footprints filtered radiances for the total, shortwave (SW), and window (WN) broadband channels and the unfiltered SW, LW (determined from the difference between total and SW), and WN channel radiances.
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The SW, LW, and WN radiances at spacecraft altitude are converted to Top of Atmosphere (ToA) fluxes based on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imager-defined scene. These ToA fluxes are used to estimate surface fluxes. The VIIRS radiances are used with CERES-specific cloud masks and retrievals to provide pixel-level cloud properties, and this data is averaged over the larger CERES footprint for up to two distinct non-overlapping cloud layers.
Each cloud layer has properties such as amount, height, temperature, pressure, optical depth, emissivity, phase, water path, and water particle size. Each footprint contains the VIIRS aerosol optical depth and imager radiance values. Only footprints with adequate imager coverage are included on the SSF product, much less than the full set of footprints that can be found on the CERES ERBE-like Instantaneous TOA Estimates (ES8) product.
The product is distributed in hourly network Common Data Format (netCDF) 4 files, each containing approximately six-tenths of an orbit.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/npp/ceres/ssf_npp-fm5_l2.002b ↗
DOI data set landing page for CER_SSF_NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2B
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/DPC_SSF-Ed4_R5V1.pdf ↗
CERES Data Products Catalog for Edition4-1 Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- How to cite ASDC data earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/collect_guide/pdf/SSF_CG_R2V1.pdf ↗
Single Satellite Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) Collection Document Release 2 Version 1
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/DQ_summaries/CER_SSF_NPP_Edition2A.pdf ↗
Quality Summary: CERES_SSF_NPP Edition 2A (3/17/2022)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/guide/cer_ssf.pdf ↗
CERES Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) Data Set Abstract
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- CERES General Product Info ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CERES Overview of NPP ceres.larc.nasa.gov/instruments/satellite-missions ↗
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- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource subset.larc.nasa.gov/ceres ↗
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4039074186-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C4039074186-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CER_SSF_NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2B (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
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- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C4039074186-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Direct Data Download for CER_SSF_NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2B
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- PNG asdc.larc.nasa.gov/static/images/project_logos/ceres.png ↗
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- Resource opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CERES/SSF/NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2B/contents.html ↗
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- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/CERES/SSF/NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2B ↗
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- Resource ceres.larc.nasa.gov ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/ceres-single-scanner-footprint-ssf-toa-surface-fluxes-… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4039074186-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=116c2c12-0f2d-417b-8034-a087762c8… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4039074186-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness · Cloud Base Pressure · Cloud Base Temperature · Cloud Emissivity · Cloud Fraction · Cloud Liquid Water/Ice · Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness · Cloud Properties · Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 5 · Cloud Top Height · Cloud Top Pressure · Cloud Top Temperature · Infrared Wavelengths · Outgoing Longwave Radiation · Radiative Flux · Shortwave Radiation · Solar Irradiance · Suomi-NPP · Surface Radiative Properties · Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Climate change science 69% · Imaging 75%
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