Measurements and Applications
Long term measurement of the Earth's radiation budget and atmospheric radiation from the top of the atmosphere to the surface; provision of an accurate and self-consistent cloud and radiation database.
Full Name
Cloud and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Earth radiation budget radiometers 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Broad-band radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
HDF5 and NetCDF
Resolution
20 km
[Best Resolution: 20000m]
Accuracy
0.5%, 1%, 0.3% (respectively for the 3 channels)
Waveband
3 channels: 0.3-5 µm, 0.3 - 100 µm, 8 - 12 µm
| UV (~0.01 µm - ~0.40 µm) |
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
| MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
| FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) |
TRMM - Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (1997 - 2015) |
Terra - Terra (formerly EOS AM-1) (1999 - 2027) |
| Aqua - Aqua (formerly EOS PM-1) (2002 - 2026) |
| Suomi NPP - Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (2011 - 2028) |
NPOESS-1 - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 1 (2013 - 2020) |
| JPSS-1 - Joint Polar Satellite System - 1 (2017 - 2030) |
| NPOESS-5 - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 4 (2018 - 2023) |