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    • CERES ERBE-like Footprint TOA Fluxes (ES8) NPP-FM5 Edition2

    Metadata Updated: December 13, 2023

    The ERBE-like Footprint TOA Fluxes (ES-8) product contains 24 hours of instantaneous Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) data for a single scanner instrument, Flight Model 5 (FM5) on the Suomi NPP spacecraft. The ES-8 contains filtered radiances recorded every 0.01-second for the total (TOT), shortwave (SW), and window (WN) channels and the unfiltered SW, longwave (LW), and WN radiances. The SW and LW radiances at spacecraft altitude are converted to Top-of-the-Atmosphere (TOA) fluxes with a scene identification algorithm and Angular Distribution Models (ADMs), which are "like" those used for the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). The TOA fluxes, scene identification, and angular geometry are included in the ES-8. CERES is a key Earth Observing System (EOS) program component. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions follow the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument (PFM) was launched on November 27, 1997, as part of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Two CERES instruments (FM1 and FM2) were launched into polar orbit on board the EOS flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board EOS Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES instrument (FM5) was launched on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011. The last CERES instrument (FM6) was launched on board the Joint Polar Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite on November 18, 2017.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 13, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 13, 2023
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2246001773-LARC_ASDC
    Data First Published 2020-03-06
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-03-06
    Category CERES, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation 2020-03-31. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC. https://doi.org/10.5067/NPP/CERES/ES8-FM5_L2.002. https://www.doi.org/10.5067/NPP/CERES/ES8-FM5_L2.002.
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/NPP/CERES/ES8-FM5_L2.002
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Temporal 2012-01-27T00:00:00Z/2023-12-11T00:00:00Z

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