The Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) product
contains one hour of instantaneous Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
(CERES) data for a single scanner instrument. The SSF combines instantaneous
CERES data with scene information from a higher resolution imager such as
Visible/Infrared Scanner (VIRS) on TRMM or Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on Terra and Aqua. Scene identification and cloud properties are defined
at the higher imager resolution and these data are averaged over the larger
CERES footprint. For each CERES footprint, the SSF contains the number of
cloud layers and for each layer the cloud amount, height, temperature, pressure,
optical depth, emissivity, ice and liquid water path, and water particle size.
The SSF also contains the CERES filtered radiances for the total, shortwave
(SW), and window (WN) channels and the unfiltered SW, longwave (LW), and WN
radiances. The SW, LW, and WN radiances at spacecraft altitude are converted
to Top-of-the-Atmosphere (TOA) fluxes based on the imager defined scene. These
TOA fluxes are used to estimate surface fluxes.
| File Temporal Coverage: |
Instantaneous |
| File Spatial Coverage: |
CERES FOV |
| Product Type: |
Simple |
| Product Level: |
2 |
| File Frequency: |
1/hour |
| Nominal Size/File: |
60 MB |
| Applicable Studies: |
Angular dependent of radiance
Cloud and aerosol properties comparison
Cloud and aerosol radiative forcing estimate or comparison with other estimate
Comparison of radiation, aerosol and cloud properties with model other then
GCM (ie. LES, CRM)
Interpretation of radiation cloud and aerosol property variability
Surface flux calculation with simple transfer model
TOA flux only comparison |
| Documents: |
SSF Description/Abstract |
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