ASDC | CER_ES8_NPP-FM5

CERES Level 2

Entry Title: CERES ERBE-like Footprint TOA Fluxes (ES8) NPP-FM5 Edition1

Entry ID: CER_ES8_NPP-FM5_Edition1

Radiation Budget

Description

CER_ES8_NPP-FM5_Edition1 is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)-like Footprint Top-of-the-Atmosphere (TOA) Fluxes (ES8) Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) - Flight Model 5 (FM5) Edition 1 data product. Data for this product is collected by the CERES FM-5 instrument on the Suomi-NPP platform. Data collection for this product is ongoing.

The ERBE-like Footprint TOA Fluxes (ES-8) product contains 24 hours of instantaneous CERES data for a single scanner instrument, FM5 on the Suomi NPP spacecraft. The ES-8 contains filtered radiances recorded every 0.01-second for the total (TOT), shortwave (SW), and window (WN) channels and the unfiltered SW, longwave (LW), and WN radiances. The SW and LW radiances at spacecraft altitude are converted to TOA fluxes with a scene identification algorithm and Angular Distribution Models (ADMs) which are "like" those used for the ERBE. The TOA fluxes, scene identification, and angular geometry are included on the ES-8.

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 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 on board the Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES FM5 instrument was launched on board the NPP satellite on October 28, 2011. The newest CERES instrument (FM6) was launched on board the Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite, now called NOAA-20, on November 18, 2017.

DOI

10.5067/NPP/CERES/ES8-FM5_L2.001

Resources and Documentation

Earthdata Forum

PROJECT HOME PAGE

CERES project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

NASA EOS ATB Documents: CERES

DATA CITATION POLICY

How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

MICRO ARTICLE

PROCESSING HISTORY

CERES Data Products Catalog R7V1 11/19/2013 ERBE-like Instantaneous TOA Estimates (ES-8)

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Quality Summary: CERES ES8 NPP Edition 1

PRODUCT USAGE

CERES Documentation: Data Products Catalog

PRODUCTION HISTORY

CERES Input Data Sources

READ-ME

View HDF Version 5 Readme

USER'S GUIDE

From GCMD Science Keywords:

RADIATIVE FLUX
SHORTWAVE RADIATION
OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION
LONGWAVE RADIATION

Longwave (LW) Unfiltered Radiance
OLR (Outgoing Longwave Radiation)
Shortwave (SW) Filtered Radiance
Shortwave (SW) Unfiltered Radiance
Total Filtered Radiance
Window (WN) Filtered Radiance

Data Distribution

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Not provided
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2012-01-27 - 2021-10-01
Temporal Resolution: Daily

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

SUOMI-NPP

Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership

CERES-FM5

Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System - Flight Model 5

Radiometers

Metadata Dates

Created on 2017-08-18

Last updated on 2022-06-14