Earth  ID: 31059

CERES top of Atmosphere Fluxes

Released on November 13, 2019
These maps show monthly top of atmosphere radiative fluxes 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.
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The top of atmosphere incoming solar radiation is affected by the Sun-Earth geometry.
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The colors in these shortwave images 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.

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The colors in the longwave images 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.

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Adding the three preceeding variables gives net radiation. The colors in the net radiation images 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 (red areas), where sunlight is direct, and net radiation deficits at higher latitudes (blue and green areas), where direct sunlight is seasonal.

 

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CERES Radiation Fluxes

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Marit Jentoft-Nilsen: Visualizer
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Missions:
Aqua
Terra

Data Used:
Terra and Aqua/CERES/EBAF TOA Fluxes, Clouds
Observed Data
Observed net balanced top of atmosphere (TOA) fluxes
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Keywords:
SVS >> Radiation budget
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Radiation >> Longwave Radiation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Radiation >> Net Radiation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Radiation >> Shortwave Radiation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Radiation >> Solar Radiation
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0