CERES SSF 1 degree Regionally Averaged TOA Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Hourly NPP VIIRS Edition2A

Description

CER_SSF1deg-Hour_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Single Scanner Footprint One Degree (SSF1deg) Regionally Averaged Top of Atmosphere (TOA) Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Hourly Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Edition 2A data product, which was collected using the CERES-Flight Model 5 (FM5) and VIIRS instruments on the Suomi NPP platform. Data collection for this product is in progress. The CERES SSF1deg Hour product provides regional averages of CERES TOA fluxes, clouds derived from a co-located imager and aerosols on a 1-degree latitude and longitude grid. This is a single satellite product that 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), Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). The cloud properties are averaged for both day and night (24-hour) and day-only time periods. Cloud properties are stratified into 4 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 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, 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 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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 View HDF Version 5 Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/README.txt
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 CERES project home page https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/
21 DOI data set landing page for CER_SSF1deg-Hour_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A https://doi.org/10.5067/NPP/CERES/SSF1DEGHOUR_L3.002A
33 Quality Summary: CERES_SSF1deg-Hour/Day/Month_Ed4A (3/13/2018) https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/DQ_summaries/CERES_SSF1deg_Ed4A_DQS.pdf
21 ASDC Data and Information for CERES https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES
21 NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/40
21 CERES General Product Info https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info/
21 CERES Input Data Sources https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info/#ceres-input-data-sources
21 CERES Overview of NPP https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/instruments/satellite-missions/#npp
33 CERES Hourly Gridded TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF1deg-Hour) Data Set Abstract https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/guide/cer_ssf1deg-hour.pdf
21 HDF Scientific Data Set (SDS) Information Utility Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/hdf_sds_info_readme.txt
33 Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Overview https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/hdf.pdf
33 View HDF: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files (overview of and resources for using view_hdf) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/view_hdf.pdf
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for CER_SSF1deg-Hour_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/CERES/SSF1deg-Hour/NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A/
21 Sample read software for CERES SSF Data Products https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/readme_cer_ssf_SampleRead_R3-358.txt
21 Readme Information on FLASH SSF Terra and Aqua https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/readme_flash_ssf_SampleRead_R4-555.txt
35 Read Me - CERES Data Products Catalog R3V2, October 2000, section 2.5 Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/cer_ssf_trmm-pfm-virs_subset-edition1_read_packageSSF_DPC_010008.ps
33 CERES Data Management System View HDF User's Guide - Version 5.0, November 2007 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/view_hdf_UG5.0.pdf
33 Discussion of the Coastal Water Percentage Issue https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/coastal_water.pdf
33 Directions on downloading and installing the HDF libraries https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/ftp_instruct.pdf
33 HDF Science Data Set (SDS) Information Tool Overview https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/hdf_sds_info.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FNPP%2FCERES%2FSSF1DEGHOUR_L3.002A
21 CERES_SSF1deg_Hour Subsetting and Browsing https://ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/jsp/SSF1degHourNPPSelection.jsp
21 OPeNDAP data access for CER_SSF1deg-Hour_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CERES/SSF1deg-Hour/NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A/contents.html
33 HDF data manipulation software (applications to open a Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) file and display a browse image and/or data file information) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/hdf_data_manipulation.pdf
21 Earthdata Search for CER_SSF1deg-Hour_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2246001749-LARC_ASDC
33 Overview of view hdf: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tools/view_hdf.pdf
33 CERES Data Products Catalog R4V110/1/2004 Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ceres/readme/DPC_SSF_R4V1.pdf

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • clouds
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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