Earth  ID: 1144

Spinning Global Shortwave from CERES

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on April 19, 2000
CERES stands for Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System. More information about CERES can be found at (http://terra.nasa.gov/Brochure/Sect_4-3.html) and (http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/ceres_brochure.php).
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Shortwave radiation data on a spinning globe, unwrapping to a flat plane.
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Video slate image reads,
"Shortwave Unwrapped
Data set on a globe, unwrapped to a flat plane".

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Bruce Barkstrom (NASA/LaRC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Terra/CERES
2000/03
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.
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This item is part of this series:
Terra First Light

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Geophysics
SVS >> Shortwave
SVS >> CERES
NASA Science >> Earth