CERES S-NPP Product Announcement
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 1:30 pm America/New_York
The Radiation Budget Science Project (RBSP)/CERES science team announces the release of the CERES Suomi-NPP (S-NPP) Edition 2 data product suite. This release includes Level-1B through Level-3 data products for the CERES FM5 instrument. This edition follows the 2018 release of Edition 1.
Edition 2 S-NPP products include:
1. Level-1B Bidirectional Scans (BDS) – CER_BDS_NPP-FM5_Edition2
2. Level-2 Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) – CER_SSF_NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2A
3. Level-3 ToA Fluxes, Clouds, and Aerosols:
These products are available from January 2012 to January 2022, with forward processing continuing as more data become available.
Information about this new data product, including data availability, user documentation, quality statements, relevant links, tools for working with the data, etc. can be found in the following
Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) link: https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES
and at the CERES website: https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation
Edition 2 S-NPP products include:
1. Level-1B Bidirectional Scans (BDS) – CER_BDS_NPP-FM5_Edition2
2. Level-2 Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) – CER_SSF_NPP-FM5-VIIRS_Edition2A
3. Level-3 ToA Fluxes, Clouds, and Aerosols:
- Regionally-averaged, Hourly (SSF1deg-Hour) – CER_SSF1deg-Hour_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A
- Time-Interpolated:
- Daily (SSF1deg-Day) – CER_SSF1deg-Day_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A
- Monthly (SSF1deg-Month) – CER_SSF1deg-Month_NPP-VIIRS_Edition2A
These products are available from January 2012 to January 2022, with forward processing continuing as more data become available.
Information about this new data product, including data availability, user documentation, quality statements, relevant links, tools for working with the data, etc. can be found in the following
Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) link: https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES
and at the CERES website: https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/documentation