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The CERES data products are written in HDF format. (Information on HDF)

For convenience in ordering a specific CERES data product, select the Data Set Name in the table below.

Monthly Gridded Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (FSW):
Hourly single scanner flux and cloud parameters averaged over 1.0-degree regions.
Select Parameters: Clear-sky and All-sky TOA Fluxes, Surface (Radiative) Fluxes, OLR, Clear-sky and All-sky Albedo, Cloud Properties, Surface Types
Documents: Description/Abstract.
Spacecraft Data Set Name
(Select name to order)
Data Products
Catalog (PDF)
Sample Software Temporal Coverage
(Monthly)
TRMM
(covers opened 12/27/1997)
CER_FSW_TRMM-PFM-VIRS_Edition2C.
Quality Summary TRMM Edition2C.
DPC_FSW_R3V2 Readme R3-521 |
Read Package (C).
01/1998 - 08/1998,
03/2000
Terra
(covers opened 02/25/2000)
CER_FSW_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2F.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.
DPC_FSW_R4V3 Readme R4-584 |
Read Package (C).
05/2006 - 05/2007
(sequential months may require
both FM1 and FM2)
CER_FSW_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2C.
CER_FSW_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2C.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.
03/2001 - 06/2006
(sequential months may require
both FM1 and FM2)
Aqua
(covers opened 06/18/2002)
CER_FSW_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2C.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.
05/2006 - 08/2007
(sequential months may require
both FM3 and FM4)
CER_FSW_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2B.
CER_FSW_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition2B.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.
07/2002 - 04/2006
(sequential months may require
both FM3 and FM4)
CER_FSW_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2A.
CER_FSW_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition2A.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.
07/2002 - 04/2006

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