Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Data

PLEASE NOTE:Any files downloaded prior to 2/27/2009 have a spurious clear-sky error. This has been corrected. Please download again!

The top of the atmosphere (TOA) monthly mean radiation fields for the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) are made available here in netCDF.

If you are a user of CERES data, please visit their web page at: http://science.larc.nasa.gov/ceres/index.html

You may also find this FAQ of some of our recent correspondence to be helpful. Feel free to contact me (John Fasullo) with any questions that you may have.

Data Products

Modified Monthly Means: Clouds and the Earth's Radiation Energy System (CERES) Monthly Means from NASA Langley DAAC on Global - T63 (192 x 96) grid, for Mar 2000 - Oct 2005. (updated July 2007)

Long-Term Means (Climatologies) (updated July 2007)

Mean Meridional Energy Transports: Summary of the total, atmospheric and oceanic components.

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