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SW flux narrowband to broadband conversions are used in the SYN1deg. There is also a solar zenith cutoff of 60 degrees for the SW flux narrowband to broadband conversions being performed, but this does not impact the cloud properties. Where sun glint is identified in the GEO observations, the clouds...

For GOES, the 0.5 GMT image (30 minutes after) for each GMT hour increment is used (for example 0 to 1 GMT, 1-2 GMT, etc). The four 15 minute images for an hour are not averaged. A 6-km subset of the GOES-16 native resolution imagery is used. If a MODIS swath occurs for that GMT hour, then the MODIS...

Hi!, I am not familiar with the ISCCP-FH-MPF product, but pulled down the file for January 2017 and viewed it in Panoply and compared it with our EBAF product for the same date. I compared the sxd1fl, surface downward shortwave flux all sky in ISCCP-FH-MPF, with the EBAF Surface Shortwave Flux Down ...

Another article that tackled your question: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019EF001210 There are MODIS products that provide detection of fire and land use change. Reanalysis data like the Merra 2 would provide information on changes in temperature and humidity over Califo...

The CERES teams produces hourly cloud properties and other variables from geostationary satellites. This includes skin temperature for clear pixels. Starting with February 2017, Meteosat 8 came available to take observations over Qatar. The files can be found by searching Earthdata for CER_GEO_Ed4_M...

We are sorry for the confusion. The ASDC is migrating to new distribution tools that expose more of the data then was previously. What you are seeing are two processing of the same date. The six digit number before the date is what we refer to as the Configuration Code (CC). The file with the 401405...

The input sources CERES uses are documented at https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/general-product-info/. The same CERES instrument, MODIS imager, and ancillary data was used throughout the period in question. The EBAF products also incorporated geostationary imager data in determining the LW all-sky f...

I’m not entirely clear in what the you are requesting, but I will provide what I think you are asking. 1. Each footprint has a Scan sample number that describes the order of the FOV in each packet. There are 660 samples in each packet, but since the majority are not Earth viewing they are not includ...

The Time of Observation in the C3M and SSF product is a continuous count of time in whole and fractional days elapsed at the Greenwich meridian since noon on January 1, 4714 BCE. So, the .500080335 portion would be slightly after midnight on July 1, 2008. The GMT is determined by first computing the...

The CERES data scene types include: Surf Index-CERES Surface Type 1 -Evergreen Needle Forest 2 -Evergreen Broadleaf Forest 3 -Deciduous Needle Forest 4 -Deciduous Broadleaf Forest 5 -Mixed Forest 6 -Closed Shrubs 7 -Open Shrubs 8 -Woody Savannas 9 -Savannas 10 -Grassland 11 -Wetlands 12 -Crops 13 -U...