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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": 241 }, { "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. Increases in greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, trap emitted thermal radiation from the surface and reduce how much is lost to space, resulting in a net surplus of energy into the Earth system. Most of the extra energy ends up being stored as heat in the ocean and the remainder warms the atmosphere and land, and melts snow and ice. As a consequence, global mean surface temperature increases and sea levels rise. 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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": 144 }, { "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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The way that the MISO affects rainfall and drought patterns is important to the economies and livelihoods of the people that live in South and Southeast Asia.This animation shows the behavior of the MISO based on the average of many MISO events that occurred over a multi-year time period. The MISO events were visible with NASA and NOAA satellite sensors that measure outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), which is closely related to convection and its associated rainfall, as well as surface winds. Green colors show regions of higher-than-average rainfall, while brown colors show regions of lower-than-average rainfall. 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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": 155 }, { "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": 50 }, { "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": 107 }, { "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": 131 }, { "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": 149 }, { "id": 30017, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30017/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-03-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GEOS-5 Nature Run Collection", "description": "Through numerical experiments that simulate the dynamical and physical processes governing weather and climate variability of Earth's atmosphere, models create a dynamic portrait of our planet. This 10-kilometer global mesoscale simulation (Nature Run) using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) explores the evolution of surface temperatures as the sun heats the Earth and fuels cloud formation in the tropics and along baroclinic zones; the presence of water vapor and precipitation within these global weather patterns; the dispersion of global aerosols from dust, biomass burning, fossil fuel emissions, and volcanoes; and the winds that transport these aerosols from the surface to upper-levels.The full GEOS-5 simulation covered 2 years—from May 2005 to May 2007. It ran on 3,750 processors of the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, consuming 3 million processor hours and producing over 400 terabytes of data. GEOS-5 development is funded by NASA's Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "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": 99 }, { "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": 86 }, { "id": 40060, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/solar-influence/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Influence", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 11 }, { "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": 26 }, { "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": 33 }, { "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": 94 }, { "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. 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 outgoing thermal radiation measured by CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003 over global infrared cloud images. Thermal radiation is longwave radiation and depends on the temperature of the earth, with the most intense radiation coming from the warmest regions and the least from cold clouds in the atmosphere. 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": 43 }, { "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": 43 }, { "id": 3155, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3155/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Signatures: Thermal Radiation (WMS)", "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows outgoing thermal radiation predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. Cities are warmer, so they emit more longwave (infrared) radiation. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "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": 27 }, { "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": 27 }, { "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": 23 }, { "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. 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 outgoing thermal radiation measured by CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. Thermal radiation is longwave radiation and depends on the temperature of the earth, with the most intense radiation coming from the warmest regions and the least from cold clouds in the atmosphere. 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": 13 }, { "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": 10 }, { "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": 12 }, { "id": 2159, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2159/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "14-Day Boxcar Averaged Terra/CERES Data (Outgoing Longwave Radiation)", "description": "This animation displays one year of Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) 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. The data are 2.5 degree resolution. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2167, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2167/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra/CERES on the American Southwest: May 2001", "description": "Terra/CERES views the American southwest during the heatwave of May 2001. The animation is generated for outgoing longwave radiation (heat). || Movie of the American Southwest during a heatwave. April-May 2001. || a002167.00005_print.png (720x480) [580.5 KB] || a002167_pre.jpg (320x242) [8.7 KB] || a002167.webmhd.webm (960x540) [1.9 MB] || a002167.dv (720x480) [55.5 MB] || a002167.mpg (352x240) [1.9 MB] || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 2169, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2169/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Terra/CERES Views the Americas in Outgoing Longwave Radiation - Daily Data", "description": "Terra/CERES views the Americas in Outgoing Longwave Radiation (March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001). 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": 19 }, { "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": 20 }, { "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). This is daily data from March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001. || Synchronized, side-by-side views of the Earth in RSR & OLR. || a002171.00005_print.png (720x480) [451.5 KB] || a002171_pre.jpg (320x238) [7.8 KB] || a002171.webmhd.webm (960x540) [24.2 MB] || a002171.dv (720x480) [432.9 MB] || a002171.mpg (352x240) [16.4 MB] || ", "hits": 20 }, { "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": 20 }, { "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": 15 }, { "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": 6 }, { "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": 13 }, { "id": 1022, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1022/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-11-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Single Globe Radiant Energy Dataset", "description": "Movie of time-variation of longwave radiation on a rotating globe. || a001022.00005_print.png (720x480) [375.2 KB] || a001022_thm.png (80x40) [3.2 KB] || a001022_pre.jpg (320x242) [4.8 KB] || a001022_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [35.6 KB] || a001022.webmhd.webm (960x540) [4.6 MB] || a001022.dv (720x480) [186.7 MB] || a001022.mpg (352x240) [7.2 MB] || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 1296, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1296/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-08-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "HoloGlobe: Outgoing Longwave Radiation for 1988 on a Globe", "description": "This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This particular animation was not used in the final video. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 1297, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1297/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-08-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "HoloGlobe: Outgoing Longwave Radiation for 1988 on a Globe (with Dates)", "description": "This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This particular animation was not used in the final video. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 1298, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1298/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-08-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "HoloGlobe: Outgoing Longwave Radiation for 1988 on a Flat Earth", "description": "This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This particular animation was not used in the final video. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 1299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1299/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-08-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "HoloGlobe: Outgoing Longwave Radiation for 1988 on a Flat Earth (with Dates)", "description": "This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This particular animation was not used in the final video. || ", "hits": 29 } ] }