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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 TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SFC):
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_SFC_TRMM-PFM-VIRS_Edition2B.
Quality Summary TRMM Edition2B. 		DPC_SFC_R4V2 Readme R3-365 |
Read Package (C). 		01/1998 - 08/1998,
03/2000
Terra
(covers opened 02/25/2000)		 CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2F.
CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2F.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 DPC_SFC_R4V3 Readme R4-557 |
Read Package (C). 		05/2006 - 06/2007
CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2C.
CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2C.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 03/2000 - 07/2006
CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2B.
CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2B.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 03/2000 - 10/2003
CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2A.
CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2A.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 DPC_SFC_R4V2 Readme R4-510 |
Read Package (C). 		03/2000 - 12/2003
Aqua
(covers opened 06/18/2002)		 CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2C.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 DPC_SFC_R4V3 Readme R4-557 |
Read Package (C). 		05/2006 - 08/2007
CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2B.
CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition2B.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 07/2002 - 04/2006
CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition2A.
CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition2A.
Quality Summary Edition2 Terra and Aqua.		 07/2002 - 12/2005
CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition1B.
CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition1B.
Quality Summary Aqua Edition1B. 		07/2002 - 03/2005

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