CERES Product Levels
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:42 am America/New_York
What do the CERES Product Levels represent?
- Level 1B data products are processed to sensor units. The BDS product contains CERES footprint filtered broadband radiances, geolocation and viewing geometry, Sun geometry, satellite position and velocity, and all raw engineering and status data from the instrument: BDS
- Level 2 products are derived geophysical variables at the CERES footprint resolution as the Level 1B source data. They include the Level 1B parameters, along with the retrieved or computed geophysical variables such as radiative broadband fluxes and their associated MODIS cloud properties.: CRS, ES-8, SSF
- Level 3 products are the radiative fluxes and cloud properties that are spatially averaged into uniform regional and zonal grids and globally and also temporally averaged into daily, monthly hourly, or monthly means.: AVG, ZAVG, ES-4, ES-9, FSW, ISCCP-D2like, SFC, SRBAVG, SYN, SSF/SYN1deg-lite
- Level 3b/4 products that are adjusted within their range of uncertainty so as to satisfy known constraints on the climate system (e.g., consistency between average global net TOA flux imbalance and ocean heat storage): EBAF