Cloud Effective Radius Imagery Services from NASA GIBS

The Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) system is a core EOSDIS component which provides a scalable, responsive, highly available, and community standards based set of imagery services. These services are designed with the goal of advancing user interactions with EOSDIS’ inter-disciplinary data through enhanced visual representation and discovery.MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (originally known as EOS AM-1) and Aqua (originally known as EOS PM-1) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths (see MODIS Technical Specifications). These data will improve our understanding of global dynamics and processes occurring on the land, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere. MODIS is playing a vital role in the development of validated, global, interactive Earth system models able to predict global change accurately enough to assist policy makers in making sound decisions concerning the protection of our environment.GIBS Available Imagery ProductsThe GIBS imagery archive includes approximately 1000 imagery products representing visualized science data from the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Each imagery product is generated at the native resolution of the source data to provide "full resolution" visualizations of a science parameter.  GIBS works closely with the science teams to identify the appropriate data range and color mappings, where appropriate, to provide the best quality imagery to the Earth science community.  Many GIBS imagery products are generated by the EOSDIS LANCE near real-time processing system resulting in imagery available in GIBS within 3.5 hours of observation. These products and others may also extend from present to the beginning of the satellite mission. In addition, GIBS makes available supporting imagery layers such as data/no-data, water masks, orbit tracks, and graticules to improve imagery usage.The GIBS team is actively engaging the NASA EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) to add more imagery products and to extend their coverage throughout the life of the mission. The remainder of this page provides a structured view of the layers currently available within GIBS grouped by science discipline and science observation.  For information regarding how to access these products, see the GIBS API section of this wiki. For information regarding how to access these products through an existing client, refer to the Map Library and GIS Client sections of this wiki.  If you are aware of a science parameter that you would like to see visualized, please contact us at support@earthdata.nasa.gov.   https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/GIBS+Available+Imagery+Products#expand-AerosolOpticalDepth29ProductsNASA GIS API for Developers https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/GIBS+API+for+Developers