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CERES SFC Data Sets

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Description: Monthly Gridded TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SFC): Hourly single scanner flux and cloud parameters averaged over 1.0-degree regions
CERES data products are written in HDF format. (Information on HDF)
Select SFC Parameters: Clear-sky and All-sky TOA Fluxes, Surface (Radiative) Fluxes, OLR, Clear-sky and All-sky Albedo, Cloud Properties, Surface Types
SFC Documents: Description/Abstract

Available Data Products

For convenience in ordering a specific CERES data product, select the Data Set Name in the table below.

Spacecraft	Data Set Name (Select name to order)	Data Products Catalog (PDF)	Sample Software	Temporal Coverage (Monthly)
TRMM (covers opened 12/27/1997)	CER_SFC_TRMM-PFM-VIRS_Edition2B. Quality Summary TRMM Edition2B.	DPC_SFC_R4V2	Readme R3-365 \| Read Software R3-365 (C).	01/1998 - 08/1998, 03/2000
Terra (covers opened 02/25/2000)	CER_SFC_Terra-MODIS_Edition3A. Quality Summary Edition3 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R5V2	Readme R5-817 \| Read Software R5-817 (C).	11/2005 - 11/2010
	CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2G. CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2G. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R5V2	Readme R5-772 \| Read Software R5-772 (C).	01/01/2008 - 05/01/2010
	CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2F. CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2F. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R4V3	Readme R4-557 \| Read Software R4-557 (C).	FM1: 05/01/2006 - 12/31/2007 FM2: 01/01/2006 - 12/31/2007
	CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2C. CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2C. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.			03/2000 - 07/2006
	CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2B. CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2B. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.			03/2000 - 10/2003
	CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2A. CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2A. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R4V2	Readme R4-510 \| Read Software R4-510 (C).	03/2000 - 12/2003
Aqua (covers opened 06/18/2002)	CER_SFC_Aqua-MODIS_Edition3A. Quality Summary Edition3 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R5V2	Readme R5-817 \| Read Software R5-817 (C).	04/01/2005 - 11/30/2010
	CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2D. CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Ed2D-NoSW. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R5V2	Readme R5-772 \| Read Software R5-772 (C).	01/01/2008 - 06/30/2010
	CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2C. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.	DPC_SFC_R4V3	Readme R4-557 \| Read Software R4-577 (C).	05/01/2006 - 08/31/2007
	CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2B. CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition2B. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.			07/2002 - 04/2006
	CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2A. CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition2A. Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.			07/2002 - 12/2005
	CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition1B. CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition1B. Quality Summary Aqua Edition1B.			07/2002 - 03/2005

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