CERES - Aqua - NASA

adiative effects and climatic impact of natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and major floods anddroughts. The long-term CERES data set will provide a basis for scientific understanding of the mechanismsand factors such as cloud/climate feedback that determine long-term climate variations and trends.Understanding how clouds influence the Earth’s energy balance and the role of clouds in regulating our climatewill provide scientists with new insights into developing improved models for forecasting long-term climate.Scientists will be able to investigate on-going natural and human-induced global climate changes. TheCERES radiation budget data are also useful for a wide range of other EOS interdisciplinary science investigationsincluding studies of ocean, land, biological, and atmospheric processes.Artist’s rendering of CERES instrumentsaboard the Terra satellite10