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CERES Monthly Daytime Mean Regionally Averaged NOAA-20 TOA Fluxes and Associated Cloud Properties Stratified by Optical Depth and Effective Pressure Edition1C
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/noaa20/ceres/fluxbycldtyp-month_l3.001c
CER_FluxByCldTyp-Month_NOAA20-VIIRS_Edition1C is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Monthly Daytime Mean Regionally Averaged NOAA-20 Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Fluxes and Associated Cloud Properties Stratified by Optical Depth and Effective Pressure Edition 1C data product.
Description
Data was collected using CERES Flight Model 6 (FM6) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NOAA-20 Data collection for this product is ongoing.
CER_FluxByCldTyp-Month_NOAA20-VIIRS_Edition1C provides the monthly mean daytime CERES fluxes and CERES-VIIRS cloud properties that have been spatially gridded into 1° regions along the NOAA-20 ground track where the TOA fluxes and cloud properties have been stratified by six cloud optical depth bins and seven cloud effective pressure layers. The CERES FluxByCldTyp-Month Edition1C product uses Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) Edition1C footprint data as input.
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Within each footprint, all 1-km pixel-level VIIRS-retrieved cloud properties are stratified into three possible sub-footprint components: two cloud layers and a clear portion. For each sub-footprint component, the VIIRS channel radiances are converted to broadband (BB) radiances. The CERES angular directional models are then applied to obtain BB fluxes.
Each of the CERES sub-footprint cloud layers and associated fluxes are assigned to one of the 42 cloud types, similarly to the stratification process in the CldTypHist product. FluxByCloudTyp is a monthly instantaneous gridded and averaged daytime-only product with a global extent. Each netCDF4 file covers a single day.
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 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.
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- Resource doi.org/10.5067/noaa20/ceres/fluxbycldtyp-month_l3.001c ↗
DOI data set landing page for CER_FluxByCldTyp-Month_NOAA20-VIIRS_Edition1C
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- ASDC Data and Information for CERES asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CERES Documentation ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CERES Documentation: Data Products Catalog ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CERES General Product Info ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CERES/Terra Regional Mean TOA Flux Uncertainties asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/region_mean_attach_C.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- How to cite ASDC data asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/examples.pdf ↗
ASDC List of CERES Examples: Spatial Extent and Scan Modes
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- PDF ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/DQ_summaries/CERES_FluxByCldTyp_Ed4A_DQS_V2.pdf ↗
Quality Summary: CERES_FluxByCldTyp-Day/Month_Ed4A
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- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3858425443-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CER_FluxByCldTyp-Month_NOAA20-VIIRS_Edition1C (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
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- Resource ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data ↗
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3858425443-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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- CERES Subsetting and Browsing Tool ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/jsp/FluxByCldTypSelection.jsp ↗
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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-monthly-daytime-mean-regionally-averaged-noaa-20… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Documentation and papers
- asdc.larc.nasa.gov /documents/ceres/guide/cer_fluxbycldtyp.pdf ↗
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Daily/Monthly Average Flux Stratified by ISCCP Cloud Types for Day (FluxByCldTyp-Day/Month) Data Set Abstract
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=3a42b4cd-eb52-4894-a0de-9182057c1… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3858425443-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3858425443-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Atmospheric Radiation · Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size · Cloud Emissivity · Cloud Liquid Water/Ice · Cloud Microphysics · Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness · Cloud Properties · Clouds · Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 6 · Cloud Top Height · Cloud Top Pressure · Cloud Top Temperature · Cloud Types · National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-20 · Optical Depth/Thickness · Outgoing Longwave Radiation · Shortwave Radiation · Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 72% · Imaging 75%
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| NASA Data Portal | 3a42b4cd-eb52-4894-a0de-9182057c156d | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
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