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This key indicator of the climate system describes the delicate and complex balance between how much of the sun’s energy reaching Earth is absorbed and how much thermal infrared radiation is emitted back to space. “Absorbed solar radiation fuels the climate system and life on our planet,” said Norman Loeb, CERES Principal Investigator. “The Earth sheds heat by emitting outgoing radiation.” || ", "hits": 256 }, { "id": 4794, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4794/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-02-21T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "CERES Radiation Balance", "description": "The Clouds and the Earth’s Energy Radiant System (CERES) instrument is a key component of NASA’s Earth Observing System, with six active CERES instruments on satellites orbiting Earth and taking data.  For Earth’s temperature to be stable over long periods of time, absorbed solar and emitted thermal radiation must be equal. 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These data are produced by averaging observations collected by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites, filling in gaps and constraining the fluxes to remove the inconsistency between average global net TOA flux and heat storage in the Earth-atmosphere system. || ", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 40388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/nasaearth-science/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-09-13T10:53:37-04:00", "title": "NASA Earth Science", "description": "NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. Working in concert with a satellite network of international partners, ESD can measure precipitation around the world, and it can employ its own constellation of small satellites to look into the eye of a hurricane. 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Research into precise details of Earth's energy budget is vital for understanding how the planet's climate may be changing, as well as variabilities in solar energy output. NASA’s (The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) CERES and NASA's Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), missions play key roles in our continued understanding of Earth’s Energy Budget.NASA’s TSIS helps scientists keep a close watch on the sun’s energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system. TSIS-1 makes two key measurements: total solar irradiance, or TSI, the sun's total energy input into Earth, and solar spectral irradiance (SSI), the distribution of the sun's energy input across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths of light. TSI measurements are needed to quantify the solar variations in the total amount of energy input to the Earth. SSI measurements are also vital because different wavelengths of light are absorbed by different parts of the atmosphere.For more than 20 years, NASA Langley's CERES (System) instruments have measured the solar energy reflected by Earth, the heat the planet emits, and the role of clouds in that process. The final CERES Flight Model, CERES FM6 launched aboard NOAA’s JPSS-1 in Fall 2017. CERES FM6 contributes to an already extensive CERES dataset that helps scientists validate models that calculate the effect of clouds on planetary heating and cooling. The same data can also be helpful for improving near-term, seasonal forecasts influenced by weather events such as El Niño and La Niña. El Niño and La Niña are weather patterns that develop when ocean temperatures fluctuate between warm and cool phases in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Built by Northrop Grumman and managed by Langley, CERES FM6 joins five other CERES instruments orbiting the planet on three other satellites.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the TSIS-1 project. The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built both instruments and provides mission operations. The International Space Station carries TSIS-1.Earth's energy budget is a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium between energy received from the Sun versus energy radiated back out in to space. Research into precise details of Earth's energy budget is vital for understanding how the planet's climate may be changing, as well as variabilities in solar energy output. NASA’s (The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) CERES and NASA's Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), missions play key roles in our continued understanding of Earth’s Energy Budget.NASA’s TSIS helps scientists keep a close watch on the sun’s energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system. TSIS-1 makes two key measurements: total solar irradiance, or TSI, the sun's total energy input into Earth, and solar spectral irradiance (SSI), the distribution of the sun's energy input across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths of light. TSI measurements are needed to quantify the solar variations in the total amount of energy input to the Earth. SSI measurements are also vital because different wavelengths of light are absorbed by different parts of the atmosphere.For more than 20 years, NASA Langley's CERES (System) instruments have measured the solar energy reflected by Earth, the heat the planet emits, and the role of clouds in that process. The final CERES Flight Model, CERES FM6 launched aboard NOAA’s JPSS-1 in Fall 2017. CERES FM6 contributes to an already extensive CERES dataset that helps scientists validate models that calculate the effect of clouds on planetary heating and cooling. The same data can also be helpful for improving near-term, seasonal forecasts influenced by weather events such as El Niño and La Niña. El Niño and La Niña are weather patterns that develop when ocean temperatures fluctuate between warm and cool phases in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Built by Northrop Grumman and managed by Langley, CERES FM6 joins five other CERES instruments orbiting the planet on three other satellites.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the TSIS-1 project. The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built both instruments and provides mission operations. 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The movie shows Ceres in enhanced color, which helps to highlight subtle differences in the appearance of surface materials. Scientists believe areas with shades of blue contain younger, fresher material, including flows, pits and cracks.TAG: Ceres is the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. 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It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.Four turboprop engines roar to life under the autumnal Alaskan sun, and we begin to taxi to the main runway of Eielson Air Force Base. After extensive pre-flight configurations, our science payload is primed for our eight-hour mission. Without delay, the engines’ roar becomes a howl as we hurtle down the nearly three-mile stretch of runway until that near-weightless moment we become airborne. Our mission into the clouds of the arctic is underway.Clouds are important drivers of Earth’s climate by regulating the amount of sunlight that is absorbed at the ground versus what is reflected back into space. You’ve probably experienced this firsthand when sitting outside on a hot and sunny summer day when a fluffy cumulus cloud crosses the sky between you and the sun. The respite that you feel from the heat of the sun’s rays means that that energy is no longer reaching you at the surface. At the lower latitudes where most of us live, these thick, stratiform and cumuliform clouds have a cooling effect because the white cloud reflects the sun’s energy back to space instead of being absorbed by the dark brown soil, green trees and plants, or the blue ocean waters. The story is much more complicated at the high latitudes where the frozen ice surface is also very bright white and reflective. Under these conditions, clouds can actually have a net warming effect because they reflect a similar or smaller amount of the incoming sunlight, but also trap more of the outgoing heat radiation and keep it close to the surface (like a blanket.)The exact balance between heating and cooling depends on the cloud properties - droplet number and size - and where the clouds are located in the atmosphere (high or low altitude as well as overlying dark water or bright ice.) Unraveling these effects is important for understanding how the Earth’s radiation balance and climate exist now and how they are likely to change in the future.Differentiating the impacts of low-level clouds versus Arctic sea ice on sunlight from space is hard, because to a passive satellite sensor orbiting many hundreds of kilometers above the Earth’s surface, both the ice and cloud look very similar. To best visualize this system, we must go to the Arctic with scientific research aircraft to measure the cloud properties just below, above, and within the clouds themselves. This was precisely the motivation behind the NASA Arctic Radiation – IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE), which was conducted in the Alaskan Arctic from September-October, 2014.ARISE carried out 14 science flights aboard the NASA Wallops Flight Facility C-130 Hercules aircraft, which was outfitted with a comprehensive suite of scientific instrumentation including a laser altimeter for measuring the sea ice surface properties, in situ cloud probes, and a sun photometer and two radiometers (SSFR, BBR) for measuring the surface, aerosol, and cloud radiative properties. An example 8-hour flight track is shown for the September 7th science flight in the Google Map below. The aircraft was based at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, AK, and began each flight by transiting approximately 2 hours north to the vicinity of the ice edge in the Beaufort Sea. On the 7th, the aircraft flew a series of parallel, horizontal legs to cover a single satellite grid box of the overflying NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite. These measurements help CERES scientists to understand how small-scale variability in ice and cloud extent and properties affect their satellite-based retrievals. Google map showing the flight track of the NASA C-130 aircraft during a research flight conducted on 7 September 2014 north of the Alaskan coast. Before wrapping up the research flight on the 7th and beginning our 2-hour transit back to Fairbanks, we descended into the low-level clouds to measure their microphysical properties with the in situ cloud probes. The video below shows what it’s like to measure an Arctic cloud from inside it! The left side of the video shows the real-time data time series from our research instruments that we are continuously monitoring in flight. The top-right imagery is from the forward-facing camera in the C-130 cockpit. The bottom-right imagery is from the downward-facing, nadir camera mounted on the bottom of the aircraft. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 4361, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4361/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-09-28T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Does What Happens in the Arctic Stay in the Arctic?", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.It all began with my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Benner. Back then my school had a weather station and one day she had asked me to collect wind speed and temperature data. I soon found myself in charge of the morning weather forecast and soon this was my favorite part of the day. Little did I know that in the years that would follow, I’d pursue my passion for clouds and meteorology to become a research scientist at NASA. Working at NASA is every bit as cool as it sounds! Everyday is different and I always find myself working with new scientific tools to uncover mysteries about our planet Earth. Lately I’ve been studying the cryosphere, or the world’s frozen places, where I’m using scientific visualizations to understand the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. In particular I’m focusing on melting sea ice to understand how it affects Arctic cloud formation.Arctic clouds are made up of tiny liquid droplets and ice particles that form from condensation and then freezing of water vapor. Water vapor is a necessary ingredient for Arctic cloud formation, and evaporation from the Arctic Ocean can serve as an important source of water vapor. But when sea ice sits on the Arctic Ocean it acts as a lid that prevents evaporation and may limit Arctic cloud formation. Over the past decade the amount of Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically and we think this trend may be influencing Arctic cloud formation.I created a visualization showing the hypothesized response of clouds to melting in sea ice (below). The difference between the left panel, \"Current Conditions,\" and the right panel, \"Future Conditions,\" is that less sea ice in the future leads to more evaporation, and more evaporation leads to more water vapor and increased cloudiness. This hypothesis is where I base my research, using state-of-the-art NASA satellite instruments including CALIPSO and CloudSAT. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 40243, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-earth/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-07-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Earth", "description": "Hyperwall stories in the Earth Category\nReturn to Main Hyperwall Gallery.", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 30604, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30604/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-06-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "CERES Radiation Fluxes", "description": "These maps show monthly reflected-shortwave radiation from March 2000 to the present from the Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data product. These data are produced by averaging observations collected by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites, filling in gaps and constraining the fluxes to remove the inconsistency between average global net TOA flux and heat storage in the Earth-atmosphere system. || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 30603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30603/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "CERES Cloud Radiative Effect", "description": "CERES Net Cloud Radiative Effect || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_print.jpg (1024x574) [102.2 KB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015.png (4104x2304) [2.1 MB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.4 KB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_30603.pptx [3.0 MB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_30603.key [5.6 MB] || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 11758, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11758/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-03-24T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dawn At Ceres", "description": "A NASA spacecraft enters orbit around an unexplored world. || c2-1024.jpg (1024x576) [284.0 KB] || c2-1280.jpg (1280x720) [404.5 KB] || c2-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [709.1 KB] || c2-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [119.8 KB] || c2-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.3 KB] || c2-1024_print_thm.png (80x40) [13.6 KB] || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 40415, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/whats-newwith-earth-today/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "What's New with Earth Today", "description": "Explore the latest visualizations of NASA's Earth Observing satellites and the data they collect. NASA researchers are constantly tracking remote-sensing data and modeling processes to better understand our home planet.", "hits": 191 }, { "id": 4245, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4245/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-12-17T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Link between Sea-Ice Fraction and Absorbed Solar Radiation over the Arctic Ocean", "description": "NASA satellite instruments have observed a marked increase in solar radiation absorbed in the Arctic since the year 2000 – a trend that aligns with the drastic decrease in Arctic sea ice during the same period. This visual shows the Arctic Sea Ice Change and the corresponding Absorbed Solar Radiation Change during June, July, and August from 2000 through 2014.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || seaice_solarAbsorption_0344_print.jpg (1024x576) [117.1 KB] || SeaIceSolarAbsorptionChange.webm (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SeaIceSolarAbsorptionChange.mp4 (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || source (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SeaIceSolarAbsorptionChange.m4v (640x360) [2.1 MB] || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 4205, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4205/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-09-24T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Heads-up Display", "description": "On September 10, 2014, NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) was celebrated in an evening event at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. The title of this event was \"Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of Our Planet\", and the speakers at this event included several Earth Scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center. This animation was used in the beginning of the event to illustrate the interconnectedness of the many Earth-based data sets that NASA has produced over the last decade or so. The animation simulates a view of the Earth from the International Space Station, over which interconnected data sets are displayed as if on a head-up display. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 11659, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11659/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-16T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Briefing Materials: NASA Airborne Campaigns Focus on Climate Impacts in the Arctic, Alaska", "description": "Earth’s northern polar region, one of the most rapidly changing areas of our planet, is the focus of three recent NASA research campaigns and will be discussed in detail during a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 16. The airborne field campaigns will examine changing glacier elevations in Alaska, thawing permafrost and the impact of sea ice retreat on the Arctic climate.NASA’s first campaign to study the link between sea ice retreat, clouds and the energy balance in the Arctic is underway, flying out of Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) is making flights over Arctic sea ice to measure ice, cloud properties and incoming and outgoing radiation.NASA is wrapping up the third year of flights for the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE), which is measuring the emission of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost. Operation IceBridge-Alaska recently concluded its sixth year of flights measuring changes of Alaskan mountain glaciers.Related feature story: www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-airborne-campaigns-focus-on-climate-impacts-in-the-arctic Briefing Speakers Introduction: Tom Wagner, program scientist for cryospheric sciences in the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.Bill Smith, principal investigator for ARISE at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.Charles Miller, principal investigator for CARVE at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CaliforniaEvan Burgess, Operation IceBridge-Alaska/University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Presenter 1: Tom Wagner || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 4138, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4138/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-03-11T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cover Candidate for PNAS:

Albedo Decrease Linked to Arctic Sea Ice", "description": "These still images were generated to be cover candidates for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The images display data from the paper \"Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice\". Average September Arctic sea ice from 1979 is shown on the top globe of each image. Average September Arctic sea ice from 2012 with change in albedo overlaid is shown in the bottom globe of each image. Two images are provided which use different color tables.This is the first study to document Arctic-wide decrease in planetary albedo using satellite radiation budget measurements and sea ice data. The study finds a very strong correlation between sea ice cover and planetary albedo.Here are links to the related NASA press release and the article. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 30367, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30367/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Solar Insolation", "description": "These maps show Earth's average monthly solar insolation, or the rate of incoming sunlight reaching the surface, from July 2006 to the present as derived from Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) measurements of radiant energy escaping the top of Earth's atmosphere. The CERES instrument flies onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites and makes these measurements every day on a global scale. The colors represent the kilowatt-hours of sunlight falling on every square meter of the surface per day, averaged over one month. Energy from the sun warms the surface, creating updrafts of air that carry warmth and moisture up into the atmosphere. Thus, knowing the rate of sunlight reaching the surface helps scientists understand weather and climate patterns. Exposure to sunlight is also a key limit to plant growth, particularly in tropical rainforests. Thus, insolation maps are also useful to scientists studying plant growth patterns in different parts of the world. || ", "hits": 221 }, { "id": 30369, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30369/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Net Radiation", "description": "The difference between how much solar energy enters the Earth system and how much heat energy escapes into space is called net radiation. Some places absorb more energy than they give off back to space, so they have an energy surplus. Other places lose more energy to space than they absorb, so they have an energy deficit. These maps show monthly net radiation from July 2006 to the present, from the Fast Longwave And Shortwave Radiative Fluxes, or FLASHFlux, Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) data product. The product contains daily observations collected by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. The colors show the net radiation (in Watts per square meter) that was contained in the Earth system. The maps illustrate the fundamental imbalance between net radiation surpluses at the equator (red areas), where sunlight is direct year-round, and net radiation deficits at high latitudes (blue areas), where direct sunlight is seasonal. || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 30370, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30370/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Reflected Shortwave Radiation", "description": "If you look at Mars in the night sky, the planet is little more than a glowing dot. From Mars, Earth would have the same star-like appearance. What gives the planets this light? Do they shine like a star? No. The light is mostly reflected sunlight. These images show how much sunlight Earth reflects. Bright parts of Earth like snow, ice, and clouds, reflect the most light; dark surfaces, like the oceans, reflect less light. Earth's average temperature is determined by the balance between how much sunlight Earth reflects, how much it absorbs, and how much heat it gives off. These maps show monthly reflected-shortwave radiation from July 2006 to the present, from the Fast Longwave And Shortwave Radiative Fluxes, or FLASHFlux, Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) data product. The product contains daily observations collected by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. The colors in the map show the amount of shortwave energy (in Watts per square meter) that was reflected by the Earth system. The brighter, whiter regions show where more sunlight is reflected, while green regions show intermediate values, and blue regions are lower values. || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 30368, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30368/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Outgoing Longwave Radiation", "description": "Light energy travels in waves, but not all the waves are the same. The kind of light our eyes can see is only a tiny part of the energy that exists in the universe. Other kinds of energy are invisible, like the energy that makes our hands feel warm when we hold them over a fire, or the energy that cooks our food in the microwave. When Earth absorbs sunlight, it heats up. The heat, or \"outgoing longwave radiation,\" radiates back into space. Satellites measure this radiation as it leaves the top of Earth's atmosphere. The hotter a place is, the more energy it radiates. These maps show monthly outgoing longwave radiation from July 2006 to the present, from the Fast Longwave And Shortwave Radiative Fluxes, or FLASHFlux, Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) data product. The product contains daily observations collected by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. The colors show the amount of outgoing longwave radiation leaving Earth's atmosphere (in Watts per square meter). Bright yellow and orange indicate greater heat emission, purple and blue indicate intermediate emissions, and white shows little or no heat emission. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 3925, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3925/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NPP Ceres Shortwave Radiation", "description": "The CERES experiment is one of the highest priority scientific satellite instruments developed for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure continued availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.CERES products include both solar-reflected and Earth-emitted radiation from the top of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface. Cloud properties are determined using simultaneous measurements by other EOS and NPP instruments such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible and Infrared Sounder (VIRS). Analyses using CERES data, build upon the foundation laid by previous missions such as NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), leading to a better understanding of the role of clouds and the energy cycle in global climate change. The sun's radiant energy is the fuel that drives Earth's climate engine. The Earth-atmosphere system constantly tries to maintain a balance between the energy that reaches the Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out to space. Energy received from the sun is mostly in the visible (or shortwave) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. About 30% of the solar energy that comes to Earth is reflected back to space. The ratio of reflected-to-incoming energy is called \"albedo\" from the Latin word meaning whiteness. The solar radiation absorbed by the Earth causes the planet to heat up until it is radiating (or emitting) as much energy back into space as it absorbs from the sun. The Earth's thermal emitted radiation is mostly in the infrared (or longwave part of the spectrum. The balance between incoming and outgoing energy is called the Earth's radiation budget. This global view shows CERES top-of-atmosphere (TOA) shortwave radiation from Jan 26 and 27, 2012. Thick cloud cover tends to reflect a large amount of incoming solar energy back to space (blue/green/white image). For more information on the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) see http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 3926, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3926/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NPP Ceres Longwave Radiation", "description": "The CERES experiment is one of the highest priority scientific satellite instruments developed for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure continued availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.CERES products include both solar-reflected and Earth-emitted radiation from the top of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface. Cloud properties are determined using simultaneous measurements by other EOS and NPP instruments such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible and Infrared Sounder (VIRS). Analyses using CERES data, build upon the foundation laid by previous missions such as NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), leading to a better understanding of the role of clouds and the energy cycle in global climate change.The sun's radiant energy is the fuel that drives Earth's climate engine. The Earth-atmosphere system constantly tries to maintain a balance between the energy that reaches the Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out to space. Energy received from the sun is mostly in the visible (or shortwave) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. About 30% of the solar energy that comes to Earth is reflected back to space. The ratio of reflected-to-incoming energy is called \"albedo\" from the Latin word meaning whiteness. The solar radiation absorbed by the Earth causes the planet to heat up until it is radiating (or emitting) as much energy back into space as it absorbs from the sun. The Earth's thermal emitted radiation is mostly in the infrared (or longwave part of the spectrum. The balance between incoming and outgoing energy is called the Earth's radiation budget.This global view shows CERES top-of-atmosphere (TOA) longwave radiation from Jan 26 and 27, 2012. Heat energy radiated from Earth (in watts per square meter) is shown in shades of yellow, red, blue and white. The brightest-yellow areas are the hottest and are emitting the most energy out to space, while the dark blue areas and the bright white clouds are much colder, emitting the least energy. Increasing temperature, decreasing water vapor, and decreasing clouds will all tend to increase the ability of Earth to shed heat out to space.For more information on the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) see http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 10979, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10979/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Smallest Planet?", "description": "Even though Vesta is only the size of Arizona, the asteroid may be a planet. New measurements taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which arrived at Vesta in July 2011 and has orbited as close as 130 miles from the surface, show that beneath complex layers of rock lies a solid metal core. This distinct characteristic makes a strong case for Vesta's reclassification, as the separation of geologic material into crust, mantle and core layers is universal among the terrestrial planets in our solar system. Scientists argue Vesta could have grown to be a full-size planet, but the gravity of its massive neighbor Jupiter disrupted the process. The video below explores Vesta's landscape, history and prospects of being named a planet. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10893, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10893/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-12T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aqua Podcast Series", "description": "This page will soon feature six videos about the Aqua satellite mission, starting with an introductory video, followed by weekly additions of videos highlighting the AIRS, AMSR-E, MODIS, and CERES instruments, and concluding with a video featuring applications of Aqua data. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10742, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10742/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-08-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NPP Resource Reel", "description": "The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) represents a critical first step in building the next-generation weather satellite system. Goddard Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to launch a satellite that will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this next-generation system, previously called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and now the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 10514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10514/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-12-11T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terra@10: Terra 10th Anniversary Video", "description": "The Earth-observing satellite Terra celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2009. This video highlights how Terra has helped us better understand our home planet. The satellite's five instruments - ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT - reveal how our our world is changing. For complete transcript, click here. || Terra10_ipodlarge.08402_print.jpg (1024x576) [38.3 KB] || Terra10_ipodlarge_web.png (320x180) [47.8 KB] || Terra10_ipodlarge_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || Terra10_Apple_TV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [71.4 MB] || Terra10_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [72.8 MB] || Terra10_Apple_TV.m4v (960x720) [179.0 MB] || Terra10_H.264.mov (1280x720) [146.6 MB] || Terra10_ipodlarge.m4v (640x360) [55.7 MB] || Terra10.mpg (512x288) [118.8 MB] || Terra10_ipodsmall.m4v (320x180) [24.0 MB] || Terra10.wmv (346x260) [18.2 MB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 3355, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3355/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-05-20T23:55:00-04:00", "title": "A Short Tour of the Cryosphere", "description": "A newer version of this animation is available here.This narrated, 5-minute animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet. This is a shorter version of a narrated, 7 1/2 minute animation entitled 'A Tour of the Cryosphere'.See the above link for a detailed description of the full animation.Two sections have been removed from the original animation: one showing a flyby of the South Pole station and glaciers feeding the Ross Ice Shelf and one showing solar data related to the Earth's energy balance.For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 3181, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3181/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-12-04T23:55:00-05:00", "title": "A Tour of the Cryosphere", "description": "A new HD version of this animation is available here.Click here to go to the media download section.The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. In these regions, surface temperatures remain below freezing for a portion of each year. Since ice and snow exist relatively close to their melting point, they frequently change from solid to liquid and back again due to fluctuations in surface temperature. Although direct measurements of the cryosphere can be difficult to obtain due to the remote locations of many of these areas, using satellite observations scientists monitor changes in the global and regional climate by observing how regions of the Earth's cryosphere shrink and expand.This animation portrays fluctuations in the cryosphere through observations collected from a variety of satellite-based sensors. The animation begins in Antarctica, showing ice thickness ranging from 2.7 to 4.8 kilometers thick along with swaths of polar stratospheric clouds. In a tour of this frozen continent, the animation shows some unique features of the Antarctic landscape found nowhere else on earth. Ice shelves, ice streams, glaciers, and the formation of massive icebergs can be seen. A time series shows the movement of iceberg B15A, an iceberg 295 kilometers in length which broke off of the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Moving farther along the coastline, a time series of the Larsen ice shelf shows the collapse of over 3,200 square kilometers ice since January 2002. As we depart from the Antarctic, we see the seasonal change of sea ice and how it nearly doubles the size of the continent during the winter.From Antarctica, the animation travels over South America showing areas of permafrost over this mostly tropical continent. We then move further north to observe daily changes in snow cover over the North American continent. The clouds show winter storms moving across the United States and Canada, leaving trails of snow cover behind. In a close-up view of the western US, we compare the difference in land cover between two years: 2003 when the region received a normal amount of snow and 2002 when little snow was accumulated. The difference in the surrounding vegetation due to the lack of spring melt water from the mountain snow pack is evident.As the animation moves from the western US to the Arctic region, the areas effected by permafrost are visible. In December, we see how the incoming solar radiation primarily heats the Southern Hemisphere. As time marches forward from December to June, the daily snow and sea ice recede as the incoming solar radiation moves northward to warm the Northern Hemisphere.Using satellite swaths that wrap the globe, the animation shows three types of instantaneous measurements of solar radiation observed on June 20, 2003: shortwave (reflected) radiation, longwave (thermal) radiation and net flux (showing areas of heating and cooling). Correlation between reflected radiation and clouds are evident. When the animation fades to show the monthly global average net flux, we see that the polar regions serve to cool the global climate by radiating solar energy back into space throughout the year.The animation shows a one-year cycle of the monthly average Arctic sea ice concentration followed by the mean September minimum sea ice for each year from 1979 through 2004. A red outline indicates the mean sea ice extent for September over 22 years, from 1979 to 2002. The minimum Arctic sea ice animation clearly shows how over the last 5 years the quantity of polar ice has decreased by 10 - 14% from the 22 year average.While moving from the Arctic to Greenland, the animation shows the constant motion of the Arctic polar ice using daily measures of sea ice activity. Sea ice flows from the Arctic into Baffin Bay as the seasonal ice expands southward. As we draw close to the Greenland coast, the animation shows the recent changes in the Jakobshavn glacier. Although Jakobshavn receded only slightly from 1042 to 2001, the animation shows significant recession over the past three years, from 2002 through 2004.This animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet.For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website. || ", "hits": 119 }, { "id": 40238, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-themes/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2005-09-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Stories for specific event", "description": "The hyperwall gallery features visualizations that have been selected for use at NASA's hyperwall at event\nReturn to Main Hyperwall Gallery.", "hits": 165 }, { "id": 3175, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3175/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Outgoing Shortwave Flux Compared to Clouds (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the reflected solar radiation measured by CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003 over infrared cloud images for the same period. Reflected solar radiation is shortwave radiation, and the most intense reflection comes from clouds. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 3176, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3176/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Outgoing Longwave Flux Compared to Clouds (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. 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Although cold clouds and the cold Antarctic night regions can be seen in this data, the Earth radiates pretty uniformly in the longwave bands because the atmosphere distributes the heat of the sun to the whole planet. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 3177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3177/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Net Radiation Flux Compared to Clouds (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the net radiation flux within view of CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. The net flux is the incoming solar flux minus the outgoing reflected (shortwave) and thermal (longwave) radiation. If the flux in a region is positive, the Earth is being warmed by the sun in that region, while cooling regions have a negative flux. It is clear from the animation that the most intensive heating occurs in ocean regions with few clouds, while the second most intense are cloud-free regions over vegetated land areas. Deserts, cloudy regions, and ice caps all reflect enough solar radiation to reduce the amount of heating. Regions of night are, of course, cooling regions because there is no incoming flux at all. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 3178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3178/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Incoming Solar Flux Compared to Clouds (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the incoming solar radiation within view of CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. Because this is incoming solar flux, its magnitude only depends on the position of the sun, and, because the orbit is synchronized with the sun, the orbit crosses the equator in the daylight at about 1:30 PM local time on every orbit. This data is not actually measured from CERES, but is calculated to compare with the outgoing radiation that CERES does measure. Note that the infrared cloud image shown under the solar data shows high infrared as dark (land) and low infrared as light (clouds). || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 3179, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3179/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Scene Identification Compared to Clouds (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. 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This scene identification is used together with the radiation flux measurements to build up a complete picture of the Earth's energy budget over time. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 3089, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3089/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Clear-sky Albedo (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average clear-sky albedo from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the fraction of the incoming solar radiation that is reflected back into space by regions of the Earth on cloud-free days. The regions of highest albedo are regions of snow and ice, followed by desert regions. Oceans have the lowest albedo, and reflect very little of the incoming solar radiation. It is not possible to measure the albedo during the winter months at the poles, since there is no incoming solar radiation during these times. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 3090, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3090/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Total-sky Albedo (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average albedo from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the fraction of the incoming solar radiation that is reflected back into space by regions of the Earth. The regions of highest albedo are regions of snow and ice, followed by desert regions and regions where there is significant cloud cover during the year. Oceans have the lowest albedo. It is not possible to measure the albedo during the winter months at the poles, since there is no incoming solar radiation during these times. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 3091, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3091/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Clear-sky Outgoing Longwave Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the thermal radiation given off by the warm Earth when the sky is cloud free. The Earth's rotation and the movement of warm air from the equator to the poles make the Earth roughly uniformin temperature. The most visible features are the cold poles in winter and the significant regions of snow coverage in the northern hemisphere, also in winter. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3092, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3092/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Total-sky Outgoing Longwave Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average outgoing longwave radiation from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the thermal radiation given off by the warm Earth. The Earth's rotation and the movement of warm air from the equator to the poles make the Earth roughly uniform in temperature. The most visible features are the cold poles in winter and the cold clouds along the equator which trap the outgoing thermal radiation. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 3093, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3093/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Clear-sky Net Radiant Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. 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Note that the Earth's ice sheets are almost always regions of cooling. On average, the heating and cooling amounts must balance, or the Earth will change temperature and the climate will change. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 3094, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3094/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Total-sky Net Radiant Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average net radiant flux from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the incoming radiation minus the outgoing reflected or thermal energy given off by areas of the Earth. Regions in red and yellow have a net incoming flux and are being heated. Regions in blue have a net outgoing flux and are being cooled. Regions in black are in rough equilibrium. Cloud-free summertime oceans are heated the most, while high latitude winter regions are cooled the most, probably because of the longer winter nights. Note that regions that reflect a lot of sunlight, such as the polar ice sheets and the Sahara desert are almost always in equilibrium or are cooling regions. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 3095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3095/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Total-sky Incoming Solar Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average incoming solar radiation from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This average data set is constant in longitude because of the Earth's rotation, but clearly shows the seasonal cycle as the sun heats the Northern Hemisphere more in summer than in winter. Note that the polar regions are abnormally bright in the local summer and dark in the local winter because whole day is either light or dark in those seasons. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3096, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3096/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Clear-sky Outgoing Shortwave Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average clear-sky outgoing shortwave radiation from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the sunlight that is directly reflected back into space by ice, desert, and other physical areas on the Earth when the sky is cloud-free. The ice sheets can be clearly seen to reflect the most sunlight, with desert areas next. Oceans absorb the most sunlight, more than the vegetated land areas such as the tropical rain forest and temperate forests and plains. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 3097, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3097/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Total-sky Outgoing Shortwave Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average outgoing shortwave radiation from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This is the sunlight that is directly reflected back into space by clouds, ice, desert, and other physical areas on the Earth. Although clouds are very reflective, they come and going during the month, so more reflection is seen on average from ice sheets, which change very little during a monthly period. Note that the cloud-free parts of the ocean are relatively dark, indicating that oceans absorb more sunlight than they reflect. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3104, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3104/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Instantaneous Scene Identification (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to th e climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the scene identification as measured by CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. By comparing the incoming solar radiation with the outgoing reflected and thermal radiation, it is possible to identify the type of area being viewed, whether it be land, clouds, ocean, or ice. This scene identification is used together with the radiation flux measurements to build up a complete picture of the Earth's energy budget over time. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3105, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3105/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Instantaneous Incoming Solar Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. 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This data is not actually measured from CERES, but is calculated to compare with the outgoing radiation that CERES does measure. || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 3106, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3106/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Instantaneous Net Radiation Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the net radiation flux within view of CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. The net flux is the incoming solar flux minus the outgoing reflected (shortwave) and thermal (longwave) radiation. If the flux in a region is positive, the Earth is being warmed by the sun in that region, while cooling regions have a negative flux. It is clear from the animation that the most intensive heating occurs in ocean regions with few clouds, while the second most intense are cloud-free regions over vegetated land areas. Deserts, cloudy regions, and ice caps all reflect enough solar radiation to reduce the amount of heating. Regions of night are, of course, cooling regions because there is no incoming flux at all. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 3107, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3107/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Instantaneous Outgoing Longwave Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. 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Although cold clouds and the cold Antarctic night regions can be seen in this data, the Earth radiates pretty uniformly in the longwave bands because the atmosphere distributes the heat of the sun to the whole planet. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 3108, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3108/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Instantaneous Outgoing Shortwave Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the reflected solar radiation measured by CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. Reflected solar radiation is shortwave radiation, and the most intense reflection comes from clouds, followed by ice. Land reflects only a small amount of radiation, but ocean reflects the least, which is the reason that the sun heats the oceans so effectively. Of course, there is no reflected solar radiation in regions of night. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 2328, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2328/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terra/CERES View of the Earth", "description": "Data sets from the Terra/CERES instrument || Outgoing Longwave Radiation (Average May 11-25, 2000) || ceres_olr_20010511_25_avg.jpg (1800x1098) [414.4 KB] || ceres_olr_20010511_25_avg_web.jpg (320x195) [12.7 KB] || ceres_olr_20010511_25_avg_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || ceres_olr_20010511_25_avg_web_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [89.5 KB] || ceres_olr_20010511_25_avg.tif (1800x1098) [941.4 KB] || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 2214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2214/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-08-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Impact of Aerosols on Atmospheric Warming - Version 1", "description": "Bright and dark aerosols, combined with solar heating, create different effects in heating the atmosphere and heating the surface of the Earth. This animation zooms into the INDOEX region showing aerosol and solar reflectance (albedo) data from the Terra satellite, then displays how these inputs generate warming of the atmosphere (Atmospheric Forcing - red regions) and cooling of the surface (Surface Forcing - dark regions). Areas of missing data (due to clouds, etc.) are either black or transparent. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 2215, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2215/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-08-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Aerosols and Warming Change with Time - Version 1", "description": "As the aerosol content and solar heating change with time, the atmosphere and the Earth's surface experience different warming and cooling. 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This animation zooms into the INDOEX region showing aerosol and solar reflectance (albedo) data from the Terra satellite, then displays how these inputs generate warming of the atmosphere (Atmospheric Forcing - red regions) and cooling of the surface (Surface Forcing - dark regions). Areas of missing data (due to clouds, etc.) are either black or transparent. || ", "hits": 3 }, { "id": 2231, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2231/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-08-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Aerosols and Warming Change with Time - Version 2", "description": "As the aerosol content and solar heating change with time, the atmosphere and the Earth's surface experience different warming and cooling. This animation displays a time series of the INDOEX region with 8-day averages showing aerosol and solar reflectance (albedo) data from the Terra satellite. From these, we see how these inputs generate warming of the atmosphere (Atmospheric Forcing - red regions) and cooling of the surface (Surface Forcing - dark regions). Areas of missing data (due to clouds, etc.) are either black or transparent. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 2156, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2156/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "One Year of Terra/CERES Data (Reflected Solar Radiation) Daily Data", "description": "This animation displays a little over one year of Terra/CERES data (March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001) at one day resolution. The data are 2.5 degree resolution. The band is reflected solar radiation (often referred to as 'shortwave' in the literature). Bright areas correspond to cloud tops or snowcover. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 2157, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2157/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "One Year of Terra/CERES Data (Outgoing Longwave Radiation) Daily Data", "description": "This animation displays one year of Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) Terra/CERES data (March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001) at one day resolution. The data are 2.5 degree resolution. || Movie at one frame per day of Terra-CERES OLR data. || a002157.00005_print.png (720x480) [513.3 KB] || a002157_pre.jpg (320x242) [10.1 KB] || a002157.webmhd.webm (960x540) [22.4 MB] || a002157.dv (720x480) [432.9 MB] || a002157.mpg (352x240) [16.4 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 2158, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2158/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "14-Day Boxcar Averaged Terra/CERES (Reflected Solar Radiation)", "description": "This animation displays one year of Reflected Solar Radiation (RSR) Terra/CERES data (March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001) with a 14-day boxcar average. Endpoints have the average re-weighted for the smaller amount of data. 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These are daily data. || Movie of the Americas in OLR. || a002169.00005_print.png (720x480) [621.3 KB] || a002169_pre.jpg (320x242) [9.1 KB] || a002169.webmhd.webm (960x540) [22.3 MB] || a002169.dv (720x480) [432.7 MB] || a002169.mpg (352x240) [16.4 MB] || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 2170, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2170/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra/CERES Outgoing Longwave and Reflected Solar Radiation: Boxcar Averaged", "description": "Terra/CERES views the world in outgoing longwave radiation (left) and reflected solar radiation (right). This is a 14-day boxcar averaged datas ets from March 1, 2001 to May 25, 2001. || Side-by-side Earth views of 14-day boxcar averaged OLR & RSR data. || a002170.00005_print.png (720x480) [424.9 KB] || a002170_pre.jpg (320x240) [7.0 KB] || a002170.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.5 MB] || a002170.dv (720x480) [72.0 MB] || a002170.mpg (320x240) [2.1 MB] || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 2171, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2171/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra/CERES Outgoing Longwave and Reflected Solar Radiation: Daily Data", "description": "Terra/CERES views the world in outgoing longwave radiation (left) and reflected solar radiation (right). 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These are daily data from March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001. || Movie of the Earth in RSR. || a002172.00005_print.png (720x480) [390.8 KB] || a002172_pre.jpg (320x242) [6.8 KB] || a002172.webmhd.webm (960x540) [23.9 MB] || a002172.dv (720x480) [433.0 MB] || a002172.mpg (352x240) [16.5 MB] || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 2173, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2173/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra/CERES Views the World in Outgoing Longwave Radiation - Daily data", "description": "Terra/CERES views the world in outgoing longwave radiation. These are daily data from March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001. || Movie of daily OLR data on a spinning Earth. || a002173.00005_print.png (720x480) [430.1 KB] || a002173_pre.jpg (320x242) [6.6 KB] || a002173.webmhd.webm (960x540) [19.8 MB] || a002173.dv (720x480) [433.0 MB] || a002173.mpg (352x240) [16.5 MB] || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 2174, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2174/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra/CERES Views the Pakistan Heat Wave: May 2001", "description": "Terra/CERES views the Pakistan heat wave. || Movie of OLR changes in May 2001 near Pakistan. || a002174.00005_print.png (720x480) [630.4 KB] || a002174_pre.jpg (320x242) [9.8 KB] || a002174.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.4 MB] || a002174.dv (720x480) [55.5 MB] || a002174.mpg (352x240) [1.5 MB] || May 5, 2001 || PakistanOLR3445.jpg (2560x1920) [420.0 KB] || PakistanOLR3445_web.jpg (320x240) [14.8 KB] || PakistanOLR3445.tif (2560x1920) [2.9 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 1118, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1118/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra First Light Visualizations: North America", "description": "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 || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 1136, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1136/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "CERES Globe", "description": "CERES stands for Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System. 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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). || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 1139, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1139/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Longwave from CERES", "description": "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). || ", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 1140, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1140/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Longwave Radiation from CERES Unwrapped", "description": "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). || ", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 1141, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1141/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Shortwave from CERES", "description": "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). || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 1142, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1142/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Shortwave from CERES Unwrapped", "description": "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). || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 1143, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1143/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Spinning Global Longwave from CERES", "description": "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). || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 1144, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1144/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2000-04-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Spinning Global Shortwave from CERES", "description": "CERES stands for Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System. 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