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CERES Processing Level Details

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CERES Data Products | Complex Processing | Simple Processing | ERBE-like Processing

The CERES data products are written in HDF format. (Information on HDF)
Subsetting is available for ES-8, SSF and CRS data products. (CERES Subsetting Information)

Available Processing Level Data Sets
CERES Data Product Processing
Level
(details) 		Processing
Scheme
(details) 		File Frequency Spatial Coverage Approximate
File Size (MB)1
TOA/Surface Averages (SRBAVG) Level 3 Simple 3 files/month 1-deg gridded regional,
1-deg zonally averaged,
Globally averaged		 SRBAVG1: 245
SRBAVG2: 500
SRBAVG3: 515
Gridded TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SFC) 36 zonal files/month
(5 zones/file)		 1-deg gridded regional 60
Gridded Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (FSW) Complex 60 zonal files/month
(3 zones/file)		 100
Synoptic Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (SYN) 1/day Gridded regional 256
Monthly Regional Radiative and Clouds (AVG) 1/month Globally averaged, Gridded regional 630
Monthly Zonal and Global Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (ZAVG) 1/month Zonally averaged 4
ERBE-like Geographical Averages (ES-4) ERBE-like 1 file/month 2.5-deg gridded regional,
2.5-deg zonally averaged,
Globally averaged		 9
ERBE-like Regional Averages (ES-9) 2.5-deg gridded regional 70
TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) Level 2 Simple 1 file/hour Instantaneous instrument
Field-Of-View (FOV) swaths2		 60
Clouds and Radiative Swath (CRS) Complex 85
ERBE-like TOA Estimates (ES-8) ERBE-like 1 file/day 290
Instrument data (BDS) Level 1B N/A 640
  1. File sizes may vary based on amount of data collected and instrument sampling.
  2. On TRMM with a satellite altitude of 350 km, the optical field-of-view (FOV) at nadir is 10 km resolution.
    On Terra and Aqua with a satellite altitude of 705 km, the optical FOV at nadir is 20 km resolution.
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