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CERES Data Products | Clouds and Computed Flux Profile Processing | Clouds and TOA/SFC Flux Processing | ERBE-like Processing

The CERES data products are written in HDF format (Information on HDF) and netCDF format. (Information on netCDF)
Subsetting is available for ES-8, SSF and CRS data products. (CERES Subsetting Information)

Available Processing Level Data Sets
CERES Data Product Processing
Level
(details) 		Processing
Scheme
(details) 		Temporal Coverage Spatial Coverage File Frequency Approximate
File Size (MB)1
Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Level 4 TOA Flux monthly and climatology 1-deg gridded regional, 1-deg zonally averaged, Globally averaged 1/dataset 208
Monthly Cloud Averages (ISCCP-D2like) Level 3 Clouds monthly, 3-hourly monthly 1-deg gridded regional 3 files/month ISCCP-D2like day: 
ISCCP-D2like nit: 
ISCCP-D2like GGEO: 
TOA/Surface Averages (SRBAVG) Clouds and TOA/SFC Flux monthly, monthly hourly, daily 1-deg gridded regional,
1-deg zonally averaged,
Globally averaged		 3 files/month SRBAVG1: 245
SRBAVG2: 500
SRBAVG3: 515
Gridded TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SFC) instantaneous 1-deg gridded regional 36 zonal files/month
(5 zones/file)		 60
Gridded Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (FSW) Clouds and Computed Flux instantaneous 60 zonal files/month
(3 zones/file)		 100
Synoptic Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (SYN) 3-hourly Gridded regional 1/day 256
Monthly Regional Radiative and Clouds (AVG) monthly, monthly 3-hourly Globally averaged, Gridded regional 1/month 630
Monthly Zonal and Global Radiative Fluxes and Clouds (ZAVG) monthly, monthly 3-hourly Zonally averaged 1/month 4
ERBE-like Geographical Averages (ES-4) ERBE-like monthly, monthly hourly 2.5-deg gridded regional,
2.5-deg zonally averaged,
Globally averaged		 1 file/month 9
ERBE-like Regional Averages (ES-9) monthly, monthly hourly, instantaneous 2.5-deg gridded regional 70
TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SSF) Level 2 Clouds and TOA/SFC Flux instantaneous Instantaneous instrument
Field-Of-View (FOV) swaths2		 1 file/hour 60
Clouds and Radiative Swath (CRS) Clouds and Computed Flux instantaneous 85
ERBE-like TOA Estimates (ES-8) ERBE-like instantaneous 1 file/day 290
Instrument data (BDS) Level 1B N/A instantaneous 640
  1. File sizes may vary based on amount of data collected and instrument sampling.
  2. On TRMM with a satellite altitude of 350 km, the optical field-of-view (FOV) at nadir is 10 km resolution.
    On Terra and Aqua with a satellite altitude of 705 km, the optical FOV at nadir is 20 km resolution.
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