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If you get the documents directly from NASA, you should not have to pay a fee. However, there may be some documents listed that "reside" in a specific commercial documentation service, which MAY charge a fee. If you have tried to get documents and have been unable to obtain them for free, ...

CERES publications are free of any charges or fees to the public. You are welcome to print the publications for your research as needed. This document may be of interest to you. The Quality Assurance Guidance for the Collection of Meteorological Data Using Passive Radiometers: https://cfpub.epa.gov/...

Walter Miller TRW was the original instrument manufacture and performed the calibration work. The team is now part of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. CERES publications can be searched at http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/ceres_library_search.php These articles may have the information you requested. ...

You are quite welcome. We have two documents for you to look over. One author, Priestly, is on both documents.

Apr 04, 2016

Walter Miller Analysis Tools The BDS is a daily footprint-level product that contains 13,091 scan lines made of 660 footprints per scan line. Not all these footprints are Earth viewing. These daily files average 655 MB with compression used. It is just not feasible to provide the data in ASCII. The...

Walter Miller Other CERES Products that May Support Analysis The unfiltered radiance, corrected for less than 1.0 spectral response, is available on the hourly CERES Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) file. Before the radiances are unfiltered, the shortwave component is subtracted from the total channe...

On Mar 31, 2016 Walter Miller posted Bidirectional Scan Information Detailed information on the CERES BDS can be found in the Collection Guide (http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/collect_guide/pdf/BDS_CG_R3V4.pdf) The data in the CERES BDS TOA and surface coordinates are geodetic and based on the...