Visualizations by
Greg Shirah
Released on April 19, 2000
Viewing various TERRA data sets of North America including: MODIS Image of North America, CERES shortwave/Albedo, CERES longwave, MODIS True Color, 250m MODIS TRUE (San Francisco), ASTER (Lake Tahoe), MISR (Baja), and MODIS -True Color
The CERES instrument aboard many Earth-orbiting satellites records the flow of reflected Solar radiation and reprocessed longwave radiation in the Earth's radiation budget.
GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation:
Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0