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Clouds and Computed Flux Profile Processing | Clouds and TOA/SFC Flux Processing | ERBE-like Processing
Available Processing Level Data Sets
CERES Data Product Processing Level Processing Scheme Temporal Coverage Spatial Coverage File Frequency Approximate
File Size (MB)1
Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Level 4 TOA Flux monthly and climatology 1-deg gridded regional, 1-deg zonally averaged, Globally averaged 1/dataset 208
Monthly Cloud Averages (ISCCP-D2like) Level 3 Clouds monthly, 3-hourly monthly 1-deg gridded regional 3 files/month ISCCP-D2like day: 
ISCCP-D2like nit: 
ISCCP-D2like GGEO: 
TOA/Surface Averages (SRBAVG) Clouds and TOA/SFC Flux monthly, monthly hourly, daily 1-deg gridded regional,
1-deg zonally averaged,
Globally averaged		 3 files/month SRBAVG1: 245
SRBAVG2: 500
SRBAVG3: 515
Gridded TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SFC) instantaneous 1-deg gridded regional 36 zonal files/month
(5 zones/file)		 60
Gridded Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (FSW) Clouds and Computed Flux instantaneous 60 zonal files/month
(3 zones/file)		 100
Synoptic Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (SYN) 3-hourly Gridded regional 1/day 256
Monthly Regional Radiative and Clouds (AVG) monthly, monthly 3-hourly Globally averaged, Gridded regional 1/month 630
Monthly Zonal and Global Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (ZAVG) monthly, monthly 3-hourly Zonally averaged 1/month 4
ERBE-like Geographical Averages (ES-4) ERBE-like monthly, monthly hourly 2.5-deg gridded regional,
2.5-deg zonally averaged,
Globally averaged		 1 file/month 9
ERBE-like Regional Averages (ES-9) monthly, monthly hourly, instantaneous 2.5-deg gridded regional 70
TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) Level 2 Clouds and TOA/SFC Flux instantaneous Instantaneous instrument
Field-Of-View (FOV) swaths2		 1 file/hour 60
Clouds and Radiative Swath (CRS) Clouds and Computed Flux instantaneous 85
ERBE-like TOA Estimates (ES-8) ERBE-like instantaneous 1 file/day 290
Instrument data (BDS) Level 1B N/A instantaneous 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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