CERES Bidirectional Scans TRMM Edition1

CER_BDS_TRMM-PFM_Edition1 is the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) BiDirectional Scans (BDS) Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Edition 1 data product. Data collection for this product is complete. CER_BDS_TRMM-PFM_Edition1 data are CERES geolocated and calibrated Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) filtered radiances and other instrument data. Each CERES BDS data product contains twenty-four hours of Level-1B data for each CERES scanner instrument mounted on each spacecraft. The BDS includes samples of normal and short Earth scan elevation profiles in fixed and rotating azimuth modes (including space, internal calibration, and solar calibration views). BDS contains Level-0 raw (unconverted) science and instrument data and the geolocated converted science and instrument data. Further, BDS contains additional data not found in the Level-0 input file, including converted satellite position and velocity data, celestial data, converted digital status data, and parameters used in the radiance count conversion equations. CERES is a key Earth Observing System (EOS) program component. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions follow the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument, the proto-flight model (PFM), was launched on November 27, 1997, as part of the TRMM. Two CERES instruments (FM1 and FM2) were launched into polar orbit onboard the Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched onboard Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua on May 4, 2002. The CERES FM5 instrument was launched onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011. The newest CERES instrument (FM6) was launched onboard the Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite, now called NOAA-20, on November 18, 2017.

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Maintainer Earthdata Forum
Last Updated April 13, 2026, 18:49 (UTC)
Created April 1, 2025, 15:07 (UTC)
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