Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System

E197648

Earth observation instrument radiometer satellite instrument

Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) is a satellite instrument designed to measure the Earth’s radiation budget and study how clouds and aerosols affect the planet’s climate and energy balance.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System canonical	7
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System	1
Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System FM6	1
Earth radiation budget	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Earth observation instrument ⓘ radiometer ⓘ satellite instrument ⓘ
abbreviation	CERES ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dataApplication	aerosol indirect effect studies ⓘ cloud feedback analysis ⓘ energy budget closure studies ⓘ satellite-era climate records ⓘ
dataFormat	global gridded products ⓘ
dataUser	climate scientists ⓘ radiation budget modelers ⓘ weather researchers ⓘ
measures	atmospheric radiative fluxes ⓘ emitted terrestrial radiation ⓘ reflected solar radiation ⓘ surface radiative fluxes ⓘ top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes ⓘ
missionType	Earth radiation budget monitoring ⓘ climate monitoring ⓘ
observes	longwave radiation ⓘ shortwave radiation ⓘ
operator	NASA ⓘ
partOf	NASA Earth Observing System ⓘ
primaryObjective	measure Earth’s radiation budget ⓘ
provides	global aerosol property datasets ⓘ global cloud property datasets ⓘ long-term radiation budget records ⓘ
relatedConcept	Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Earth radiation budget climate feedbacks ⓘ radiative forcing ⓘ top-of-atmosphere energy imbalance ⓘ
scientificGoal	improve estimates of Earth’s net energy imbalance ⓘ quantify aerosol-radiation interactions ⓘ understand cloud-radiation interactions ⓘ
studies	Earth’s climate ⓘ Earth’s energy balance ⓘ aerosols ⓘ clouds ⓘ
supports	climate change detection ⓘ climate model validation ⓘ energy budget studies ⓘ
uses	broadband radiometers ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Suomi NPP satellite → instrumentFullName → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

subject surface form: Suomi NPP

Aqua satellite → instrumentFullName → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

subject surface form: Aqua

Terra satellite → instrumentFullName → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

subject surface form: Terra

NOAA-20 → instrument → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

this entity surface form: Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System FM6

NPP → CERESFullName → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System → relatedConcept → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Earth radiation budget

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission → instrument → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

EOS PM-1 → instrumentFullName → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

CERES → acronymFor → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ

this entity surface form: Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System

EOS AM-1 → instrumentFullName → Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System ⓘ