Datasets/CERES_EBAF
d038·dataset

Earth's energy in vs. out

CERES EBAF Energy Balanced and Filled Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation
ASDC DAAC CERES_EBAF cloud-native 1° × 1° monthly NetCDF atmosphereclimateradiation-budget

The canonical top-of-atmosphere broadband radiation product. Drives climate-model evaluation and Earth's energy imbalance studies.

CERES EBAF Energy Balanced and Filled Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation

The canonical top-of-atmosphere broadband radiation product. Drives climate-model evaluation and Earth’s energy imbalance studies.

Access

Gotchas

  • Edition 4.2 is current
  • Monthly 1° grid; for higher res use other CERES Lev-3 products
  • Energy-balanced + filled — uses surface budget constraint
  • Other datasets: d037

Sources

The access details, code, and sources below are kept in the original English for technical accuracy.

Quick access (cloud-direct)

ceres_ebaf_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="CERES_EBAF",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream from ASDC DAAC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.

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