Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition-4.0 Data Product

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) top-of-atmosphere (TOA), Edition 4.0 (Ed4.0), data product is described. EBAF Ed4.0 is an update to EBAF Ed2.8, incorporating all of the Ed4.0 suite of CERES data product algorithm improvements and consistent input datasets throughout the record. A one-time adjustment to shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) TOA fluxes is made to ensure that global mean net TOA flux for July 2005–June 2015 is consistent with the in situ value of 0.71 W m −2 . While global mean all-sky TOA flux differences between Ed4.0 and Ed2.8 are within 0.5 W m −2 , appreciable SW regional differences occur over marine stratocumulus and snow/sea ice…

• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• LR
  Langley Research Center
• JS
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science