Description
CER_GEO_Ed4_GMS05_FD_V02 is the Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Geostationary Satellite (GEO) Edition 4 GMS-5 over the Full Disk (FD) Version 2 data product. Data was collected using the Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer instrument on the GMS-5 platform.
This data set is comprised of cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived hourly from GMS-5 geostationary satellite imager data using the Langley Research Center (LaRC) SATCORPS algorithms in support of the CERES project. The cloud micro-physical and radiation properties from each active geostationary satellite are merged together to create hourly global cloud properties that are used to estimate fluxes between CERES instrument measurements to account for the changing diurnal cycle. The data set is arranged as files for each hour and in netCDF-4 format. The observations are at 4-km resolution (at nadir) and are sub-sampled to 8 km.
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 National Polar-orbiting Partnership (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 |
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| Download this dataset | HTML | ASDC Direct Data Download for CER_GEO_Ed4_GMS05_FD_V02 | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ASDC List of CERES Examples: Spatial Extent and Scan Modes | Open resource |
| View this dataset's processing history | CERES Processing Level Details | Open resource | |
| View this dataset's processing history | CERES Product Level Details | Open resource | |
| View this dataset's production history | CERES Data Products Catalog | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ASDC Data and Information for CERES | Open resource |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | CERES project home page | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | CERES Documentation | Open resource |
| View this dataset's production history | HTML | CERES Documentation: Data Products Catalog | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | CERES General Product Info | Open resource |
| View this dataset's requirements and design documentation | HTML | CERES Input Data Sources | Open resource |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | DOI data set landing page for CER_GEO_Ed4_GMS05_FD_V02 | Open resource |
| View a micro article on this dataset | HTML | NASA Earth Observatory Article: Clouds in the Balance | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | 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 System (CERES)) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | NASA Earth Observatory Article: The Water Cycle - MODIS, CERES, and AIRS all collect data relevant to the study of clouds. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | NASA Earth Observatory Article: Tropical Cloud Systems and CERES: Image of the Day - CERES detects the amount of outgoing heat and reflected sunlight leaving the planet. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | 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 energy emitted from the Earth. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | 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 during March 2000. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | 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 multiple satellites. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's algorithm theoretical basis document | HTML | NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | OPeNDAP data access for CER_GEO_Ed4_GMS05_FD_V02 | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Earthdata Search for CER_GEO_Ed4_GMS05_FD_V02 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) | Open resource |