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    • SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 GOES-8 Southern Hemisphere Version 1.0

    Metadata Updated: March 19, 2024

    CER_GEO_Ed4_GOE08_SH_V01 is the Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Geostationary Satellite (GEO) Edition 4 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8 (GOES-8) over the Southern Hemisphere (SH) Version 1.0 data product. Data was collected using the GOES-8 Imager on the GOES-8 Platform. Data collection for this product is complete. This data set is comprised of cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived hourly from GOES-8 geostationary satellite imager data using the Langley Research Center (LARC) SATCORPS algorithms in support of the CERES project. The cloud micro-physical and radiation properties from each active geostationary satellite are merged together to create hourly global cloud properties that are used to estimate fluxes between CERES instrument measurements to account for the changing diurnal cycle. The data set is arranged as files for each hour and in netCDF-4 format. The observations are at 4-km resolution (at nadir) and are sub-sampled to 8 km. CERES is a key component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) program. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions are a follow-on to the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument, protoflight model (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 Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES FM5 instrument was launched on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011. The newest CERES instrument (FM6) was launched on board the Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite, now called NOAA-20, 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 March 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 19, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 19, 2024
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1289258821-LARC_ASDC
    Data First Published 2017-01-11
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2018-06-27
    Category CERES, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Citation 2016-07-27. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC. https://doi.org/Not provided. https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES.
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    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash 989d6160873089daa96c1b08a406be511da4924b118bff3b8984009fd589b89a
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    Temporal 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z/2003-04-01T23:59:59Z

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