CERES Processing Level Details |
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)
CERES Data Product | Processing Level (details) |
Processing Scheme (details) |
Temporal Coverage | Spatial Coverage | File Frequency | Approximate File Size (MB)1 |
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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: |
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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 |
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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 | |||
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