Solar radiation enters the Earth's atmosphere with a portion being scattered by clouds and aerosols.

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at the NASA Langley Research Center

  CERES EBAF Surface Ed4.0 Release Announcement

CERES ES8 Data Products

CERES ES8 Data Products

Level 2: Instantaneous footprint-level (20km nominal) fluxes and cloud properties.

Description: CERES instrument TOA fluxes using algorithms identical to those used by ERBE.

Note: The latest CERES data products (Edition3 for Terra and Aqua; Edition2 for TRMM) are approved for science publications.
Products Temporal Resolution Spatial Resolution Temporal Coverage
ES8 Terra-FM2 Ed3

Instantaneous

Footprint

02/29/2000 - 03/31/2017
ES8 Terra-FM1 Ed3

Instantaneous

Footprint

02/29/2000 - 03/31/2017
ES8 Aqua-FM4 Ed3

Instantaneous

Footprint

06/18/2002 - 09/30/2012
ES8 Aqua-FM3 Ed3

Instantaneous

Footprint

06/18/2002 - 03/31/2017
ES8 TRMM-PFM Ed2

Instantaneous

Footprint

12/1997 - 08/1998
02/2000 - 03/2000

Note: Edition1-CV is for instrument validation purposes only and not suited for science publications.
Products Temporal Resolution Spatial Resolution Temporal Coverage
ES8 NPP-FM5 Ed1-CV

Instantaneous

Footprint

01/27/2012 - 06/30/2017
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