Spinning Global Shortwave from CERES

  • Released Wednesday, April 19th, 2000
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:58PM
  • ID: 1144

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).

Shortwave radiation data on a spinning globe, unwrapping to a flat plane.

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • Terra

    ID: 114
    Collected with 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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