SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 GOES-18 Southern Hemisphere Version 1.2

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CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE18_SH_V01.2 is the Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Geostationary Satellite (GEO) Edition 4 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 18 (GOES-18) over the Southern Hemisphere (SH) Version 1.2 data product. Data was collected using the GOES-18 Imager on the GOES-18 Platform. Data collection for this product is in progress. This data set is comprised of cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived hourly from GOES-18 geostationary satellite imager data using the Langley Research Center (LaRC) SATCORPS algorithms in support of the CERES project. The cloud microphysical 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, 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 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGOES-18%2FCERES%2FGEO_Ed4_GOE18_SH_V01.2
21 CERES project home page https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/
21 CERES Documentation: Data Products Catalog https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation/#data-products-catalog
21 CERES ATBD https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/40
21 Earthdata Search for CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE18_SH_V01.2 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2650019074-LARC_ASDC
21 CERES Documentation https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation/
21 DOI data set landing page for CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE18_SH_V01.2 https://doi.org/10.5067/GOES-18/CERES/GEO_Ed4_GOE18_SH_V01.2
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data

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  • atmosphere
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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