CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) TOA Monthly means data in netCDF Edition4.2

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CERES_EBAF-TOA_Edition4.2 is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Monthly means data in netCDF format Edition 4.2 data product. Data was collected using the CERES Scanner instruments on the Terra, Aqua, and NOAA-20 platforms. Data collection for this product is ongoing. CERES_EBAF-TOA_Edition4.2 data are monthly and climatological averages of TOA clear-sky (spatially complete) fluxes and all-sky fluxes, where the TOA net flux is constrained to the ocean heat storage. EBAF-TOA provides some basic cloud properties derived from high resolution imager data alongside TOA fluxes.. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is the imager for Terra and Aqua and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is used for NOAA-20. Observed fluxes are obtained using cloud properties derived from narrow-band imagers onboard both Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua and NOAA-20 satellites as well as geostationary satellites to more fully model the diurnal cycle of clouds. The computations are also based on meteorological assimilation data from the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Versions 5.4.1 models. Unlike other CERES Level 3 clear-sky regional data sets that contain clear-sky data gaps, the clear-sky fluxes in the EBAF-TOA product are regionally complete. The EBAF-TOA product is the CERES project's best estimate of the fluxes based on all available satellite platforms and input data. Only Terra data is used from March 2000 to June 2002; Terra and Aqua are combined from July 2002 until March 2022; and only NOAA-20 is used after March 2022. A correction created from an overlap period with time periods when both Terra and Aqua are available is used to adjust the single satellite periods. 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.

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21 OPeNDAP data access for CERES_EBAF-TOA_Edition4.2 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CERES/EBAF/TOA_Edition4.2/contents.html
33 CERES EBAF-TOA Data Set Abstract https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/guide/cer_ebaf-toa.pdf
21 CERES project home page https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/
33 CERES Data Products Catalog https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/ceres_data_products_catalogs.pdf
33 CERES Processing Level Details https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/level_table.pdf
33 CERES Product Level Details https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/product_level_details.pdf
21 CERES Data Page https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/#ebaftoa-level-3
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for CERES_EBAF-TOA_Edition4.2 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/CERES/EBAF/TOA_Edition4.2/
21 CERES Input Data Sources https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info/#ceres-input-data-sources
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTERRA-AQUA-NOAA20%2FCERES%2FEBAF-TOA_L3B004.2
21 NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/40
33 CERES_EBAF_Ed4.2 Data Quality Summary https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/DQ_summaries/CERES_EBAF_Ed4.2_DQS.pdf
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 DOI data set landing page for CERES_EBAF-TOA_Edition4.2 https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA-AQUA-NOAA20/CERES/EBAF-TOA_L3B004.2
21 ASDC Data and Information for CERES https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES
21 CERES Documentation https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation/
21 CERES Data Page https://ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/jsp/EBAFTOA41Selection.jsp
21 Earthdata Search for CERES_EBAF-TOA_Edition4.2 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2568996072-LARC_ASDC

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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