CERES SSF NOAA20-FM6-VIIRS_Edition 1C Product Release Announcement
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 4:20 pm America/New_York
The release of the Edition 1C product suite was prompted by the discontinuation of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS5.4.1) reanalysis dataset in July 2024. The Edition 1C uses GMAO’s Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) data product over the entire data record.
This product is an hourly, sub-sampled, footprint-level data product of CERES reflected shortwave (SW), emitted longwave (LW) and longwave-channel (LW-chan) radiances and top-of-atmosphere (TOA) fluxes. The product also includes radiances, aerosols and cloud properties derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imager, co-located on the NOAA-20 satellite, as well as meteorological information from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO)’s Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) data product.
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 at the following page of the CERES website:
https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/#ssf-level-2
These data products are available from the ASDC via the following options:
Earthdata Search
Direct Data Download
OPeNDAP
Related URLS: https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES
This product is an hourly, sub-sampled, footprint-level data product of CERES reflected shortwave (SW), emitted longwave (LW) and longwave-channel (LW-chan) radiances and top-of-atmosphere (TOA) fluxes. The product also includes radiances, aerosols and cloud properties derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imager, co-located on the NOAA-20 satellite, as well as meteorological information from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO)’s Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) data product.
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 at the following page of the CERES website:
https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/#ssf-level-2
These data products are available from the ASDC via the following options:
Earthdata Search
Direct Data Download
OPeNDAP
Related URLS: https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CERES