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8 Citations
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Organic Matter and Associated Minerals on the Dwarf Planet Ceres

  • Maria Cristina De Sanctis and
  • Eleonora Ammannito

22 July 2021

Ceres is the largest object in the main belt and it is also the most water-rich body in the inner solar system besides the Earth. The discoveries made by the Dawn Mission revealed that the composition of Ceres includes organic material, with a compon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,310 Views
19 Pages

Validation and Spatiotemporal Analysis of CERES Surface Net Radiation Product

  • Aolin Jia,
  • Bo Jiang,
  • Shunlin Liang,
  • Xiaotong Zhang and
  • Han Ma

23 January 2016

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) generates one of the few global satellite radiation products. The CERES ARM Validation Experiment (CAVE) has been providing long-term in situ observations for the validation of the CERES produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
12 Pages

Spectral Analysis of Ceres’ Main Linear Features

  • Andrea Longobardo,
  • Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo,
  • Anna Galiano,
  • Jennifer E. C. Scully,
  • Rutu Parekh,
  • Ernesto Palomba,
  • Maria Cristina De Sanctis,
  • Eleonora Ammannito,
  • Andrea Raponi and
  • Christopher T. Russell
  • + 6 authors

12 August 2022

Linear features are very common on asteroid surfaces. They are generally formed after impact and provide information about asteroid evolution. This work focuses on a mineralogical and spectral analysis of the main linear features on the 1/Ceres surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,627 Views
34 Pages

VIIRS Edition 1 Cloud Properties for CERES, Part 2: Evaluation with CALIPSO

  • Christopher R. Yost,
  • Patrick Minnis,
  • Sunny Sun-Mack,
  • William L. Smith and
  • Qing Z. Trepte

28 February 2023

The decades-long Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Project includes both cloud and radiation measurements from instruments on the Aqua, Terra, and Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellites. To build a reliable l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,364 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2024

The diurnal variation of surface incident solar radiation (Rs) has a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. Satellite-retrieved Rs datasets display good spatial and temporal continuity compared with ground-based observations and, more impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,586 Views
17 Pages

Bacterial Utilisation of Aliphatic Organics: Is the Dwarf Planet Ceres Habitable?

  • Sahan A. Jayasinghe,
  • Fraser Kennedy,
  • Andrew McMinn and
  • Andrew Martin

31 May 2022

The regolith environment and associated organic material on Ceres is analogous to environments that existed on Earth 3–4 billion years ago. This has implications not only for abiogenesis and the theory of transpermia, but it provides context for deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,502 Views
22 Pages

Instantaneous Top-of-Atmosphere Albedo Comparison between CERES and MISR over the Arctic

  • Yizhe Zhan,
  • Larry Di Girolamo,
  • Roger Davies and
  • Catherine Moroney

25 November 2018

The top-of-atmosphere (TOA) albedo is one of the key parameters in determining the Arctic radiation budget, with continued validation of its retrieval accuracy still required. Based on three years (2007, 2015, 2016) of summertime (May–September...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,839 Views
14 Pages

Organic Material on Ceres: Insights from Visible and Infrared Space Observations

  • Andrea Raponi,
  • Maria Cristina De Sanctis,
  • Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo,
  • Mauro Ciarniello,
  • Batiste Rousseau,
  • Marco Ferrari,
  • Eleonora Ammannito,
  • Simone De Angelis,
  • Vassilissa Vinogradoff and
  • Christopher T. Russell
  • + 6 authors

24 December 2020

The NASA/Dawn mission has acquired unprecedented measurements of the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, the composition of which is a mixture of ultra-carbonaceous material, phyllosilicates, carbonates, organics, Fe-oxides, and volatiles as determine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,423 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2023

Surface incident solar radiation (Rs) plays an important role in climate change on Earth. Recently, the use of satellite-retrieved datasets to obtain global-scale Rs with high spatial and temporal resolutions has become an indispensable tool for rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,682 Views
20 Pages

21 April 2015

Surface net radiation plays an important role in land–atmosphere interactions. The net radiation can be retrieved from satellite radiative products, yet its accuracy needs comprehensive assessment. This study evaluates monthly surface net radiation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,316 Views
21 Pages

15 November 2021

Reflected shortwave (SW) solar radiations at the top of atmosphere from Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES), Modern Era-Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2), and ECMWF Reanalysis 5th Generati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,336 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2021

Crop model calibration and validation is vital for establishing their credibility and ability in simulating crop growth and yield. A split–split plot design field experiment was carried out with sowing dates (SD1, SD2 and SD3); maize cultivars (ZMS60...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,549 Views
15 Pages

Better Performance of the Modified CERES-Wheat Model in Simulating Evapotranspiration and Wheat Growth under Water Stress Conditions

  • Yingnan Wei,
  • Han Ru,
  • Xiaolan Leng,
  • Zhijian He,
  • Olusola O. Ayantobo,
  • Tehseen Javed and
  • Ning Yao

11 November 2022

Crop models are important for understanding and regulating agroecosystems. Although the CERES-Wheat model is an important tool for winter wheat research, it has some limitations under water stress conditions. To narrow the gap, this study aimed to im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,891 Views
18 Pages

Laboratory Investigations Coupled to VIR/Dawn Observations to Quantify the Large Concentrations of Organic Matter on Ceres

  • Vassilissa Vinogradoff,
  • Giovanni Poggiali,
  • Andrea Raponi,
  • Mauro Ciarniello,
  • Simone De Angelis,
  • Marco Ferrari,
  • Julie C Castillo-Rogez,
  • John Brucato and
  • Maria-Cristina De Sanctis

3 July 2021

Organic matter directly observed at the surface of an inner planetary body is quite infrequent due to the usual low abundance of such matter and the limitation of the infrared technique. Fortuitously, the Dawn mission has revealed, thanks to the Visi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,326 Views
33 Pages

VIIRS Edition 1 Cloud Properties for CERES, Part 1: Algorithm Adjustments and Results

  • Patrick Minnis,
  • Sunny Sun-Mack,
  • William L. Smith,
  • Qing Z. Trepte,
  • Gang Hong,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Christopher R. Yost,
  • Fu-Lung Chang,
  • Rita A. Smith and
  • Ping Yang
  • + 1 author

18 January 2023

Cloud properties are essential for the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Project, enabling accurate interpretation of measured broadband radiances, providing a means to understand global cloud-radiation interactions, and cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,982 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2019

The AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) global network provides estimations of broadband solar radiative fluxes at the surface and at the TOA (Top-Of-the-Atmosphere). This paper reports on the validation of AERONET flux estimations at the TOA with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,754 Views
19 Pages

Assimilation of Two Variables Derived from Hyperspectral Data into the DSSAT-CERES Model for Grain Yield and Quality Estimation

  • Zhenhai Li,
  • Jihua Wang,
  • Xingang Xu,
  • Chunjiang Zhao,
  • Xiuliang Jin,
  • Guijun Yang and
  • Haikuan Feng

22 September 2015

The combination of remote sensing and crop growth models has become an effective tool for yield estimation and a potential method for grain quality estimation. In this study, two assimilation variables (derived from a hyperspectral sensor), called le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
516 Views
24 Pages

12 December 2025

This study assessed the performance of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) surface longwave downward radiation (SLDR) products under the atmospheric temperature inversion (ATI) conditions for the first time. Three years of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,448 Views
16 Pages

Using the CERES-Maize Model to Simulate Crop Yield in a Long-Term Field Experiment in Hungary

  • Annabella Zelenák,
  • Atala Szabó,
  • János Nagy and
  • Anikó Nyéki

24 March 2022

Precision crop production requires accurate yield prediction and nitrogen management. Crop simulation models may assist in exploring alternative management systems for optimizing water, nutrient and microelements use efficiencies, increasing maize yi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,788 Views
17 Pages

Uncertainty of CERES-Maize Calibration under Different Irrigation Strategies Using PEST Optimization Algorithm

  • Quanxiao Fang,
  • L. Ma,
  • R. D. Harmel,
  • Q. Yu,
  • M. W. Sima,
  • P. N. S. Bartling,
  • R. W. Malone,
  • B. T. Nolan and
  • J. Doherty

An important but rarely studied aspect of crop modeling is the uncertainty associated with model calibration and its effect on model prediction. Biomass and grain yield data from a four-year maize experiment (2008–2011) with six irrigation trea...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,491 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2022

Mass wasting, as one of the most significant geomorphological processes, contributes immensely to planetary landscape evolution. The frequency and diversity of mass wasting features on any planetary body also put engineering constraints on its roboti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,182 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2025

Effective nutrient management is essential for boosting maize yield and quality and tackling factors that limit or reduce productivity. The Crop Environment Resource Synthesis (CERES)-Maize model embedded in the Decision Support Systems for Agrotechn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,554 Views
15 Pages

18 December 2021

In this study, the climatologies of three different satellite cloud products, all based on passive sensors (CERES Edition 4.1 [EBAF4.1 and SYN4.1] and ISCCP–H), were evaluated against the CALIPSO-GOCCP (GOCCP) data, which are based on active se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,885 Views
17 Pages

Development and Evaluation of a Leaf Disease Damage Extension in Cropsim-CERES Wheat

  • Georg Röll,
  • William D. Batchelor,
  • Ana Carolina Castro,
  • María Rosa Simón and
  • Simone Graeff-Hönninger

Developing disease models to simulate and analyse yield losses for various pathogens is a challenge for the crop modelling community. In this study, we developed and tested a simple method to simulate septoria tritici blotch (STB) in the Cropsim-CERE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,842 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2022

Ahuna Mons is a 4 km particular geologic feature on the surface of Ceres, of possibly cryovolcanic origin. The special characteristics of Ahuna Mons are also interesting in regard of its surrounding area, especially for the big crater beside it. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,141 Views
17 Pages

Decision support system tools such as crop models and considering the uncertainties associated with them are important for making an informed decision to fill the yield gap in farms and increase food security. This study’s objective was to identify a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,192 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2021

The farmland area in arid and semiarid regions accounts for about 40% of the total area of farmland in the world, and it continues to increase. It is critical for global food security to predict the crop yield in arid and semiarid regions. To improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,542 Views
19 Pages

8 July 2023

Yield estimations at global or regional spatial scales have been compromised due to poor crop model calibration. A methodology for estimating the genetic parameters related to grain growth and yield for the CERES-Wheat crop model is proposed based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,976 Views
18 Pages

Split Nitrogen Application Rates for Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Yield and Grain N Using the CSM-CERES-Wheat Model

  • Gul Roz Khan,
  • Hiba M. Alkharabsheh,
  • Mohammad Akmal,
  • Arwa Abdulkreem AL-Huqail,
  • Nawab Ali,
  • Bushra A. Alhammad,
  • Muhammad Mehran Anjum,
  • Rabia Goher,
  • Fazli Wahid and
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • + 1 author

27 July 2022

Crop simulation models can be effective tools to assist with optimization of resources for a particular agroecological zone. The goal of this study was to determine the influence of N rates with different timing of application to wheat crop using pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,430 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2023

In areas with a limited or non-existent network of observing stations, it is critical to assess the applicability of gridded datasets. This study examined the agreement of Agri4Cast and E-OBS at two spatial resolutions (10 km (EOBS-0.1) and 25 km (EO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,736 Views
20 Pages

Extending the CSM-CERES-Beet Model to Simulate Impact of Observed Leaf Disease Damage on Sugar Beet Yield

  • Emir Memic,
  • Simone Graeff-Hönninger,
  • Oliver Hensel and
  • William D. Batchelor

8 December 2020

A CSM-CERES-Beet pest damage routine was modified to simulate the impact of Cercospora leaf spot disease effects on sugar beet yield. Foliar disease effects on sugar beet growth and yield were incorporated as daily damage to leaf area and photosynthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,670 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2021

Global sensitivity analysis (SA) has become an efficient way to identify the most influential parameters on model results. However, the effects of cultivar variation and specific-stage variations of climate conditions on model outputs still remain un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,999 Views
21 Pages

Assessment of CSM–CERES–Rice as a Decision Support Tool in the Identification of High-Yielding Drought-Tolerant Upland Rice Genotypes

  • Tajamul Hussain,
  • Jakarat Anothai,
  • Charassri Nualsri,
  • Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim,
  • Saowapa Duangpan,
  • Nurda Hussain and
  • Awais Ali

31 January 2023

Drought is considered as one of the critical abiotic stresses affecting the growth and productivity of upland rice. Advanced and rapid identification of drought-tolerant high-yielding genotypes in comparison to conventional rice breeding trials and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,410 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing the Sowing Date and Irrigation Strategy to Improve Maize Yield by Using CERES (Crop Estimation through Resource and Environment Synthesis)-Maize Model

  • Qaisar Saddique,
  • Huanjie Cai,
  • Wajid Ishaque,
  • Hui Chen,
  • Henry Wai Chau,
  • Muhammad Umer Chattha,
  • Muhammad Umair Hassan,
  • Muhammad Imran Khan and
  • Jianqiang He

25 February 2019

Summer maize (Zea mays L.) is a widely cultivated crop in the arid and semi-arid Guanzhong region of China. However, due to the spatial and temporal variation in rainfall, the seasonal maize yield varies substantially and occasionally is not economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,855 Views
13 Pages

Uncertainties in CERES Top-of-Atmosphere Fluxes Caused by Changes in Accompanying Imager

  • Wenying Su,
  • Lusheng Liang,
  • Hailan Wang and
  • Zachary A. Eitzen

25 June 2020

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project provides observations of Earth’s radiation budget using measurements from CERES instruments on board the Terra, Aqua, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP), and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,402 Views
11 Pages

17 April 2020

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data product uses a diurnal correction methodology to produce a shortwave (SW) top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiative flux time series that accounts for diurn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,466 Views
19 Pages

22 October 2019

The expected increase in population and the pressure posed by climate change on agricultural production require the assessment of future yield levels and the evaluation of the most suitable management options to minimize climate risk and promote sust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,310 Views
24 Pages

Geostationary Visible Imager Calibration for the CERES SYN1deg Edition 4 Product

  • David Doelling,
  • Conor Haney,
  • Rajendra Bhatt,
  • Benjamin Scarino and
  • Arun Gopalan

13 February 2018

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project relies on geostationary (GEO) imager derived TOA broadband fluxes and cloud properties to account for the regional diurnal fluctuations between the Terra and Aqua CERES and MODIS measur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,855 Views
20 Pages

27 August 2023

The NASA Dawn spacecraft visited asteroid 4 Vesta between 2011 and 2012 and dwarf planet 1 Ceres between 2015 and 2018 to investigate their surfaces through optical and hyperspectral imaging and their composition through gamma-ray and neutron spectro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,837 Views
14 Pages

Improving High-Latitude Rice Nitrogen Management with the CERES-Rice Crop Model

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Yuxin Miao,
  • William D. Batchelor,
  • Junjun Lu,
  • Hongye Wang and
  • Shujiang Kang

15 November 2018

Efficient use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer is critically important for China’s food security and sustainable development. Crop models have been widely used to analyze yield variability, assist in N prescriptions, and determine optimum N rates. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,021 Views
26 Pages

Variability and Trends in Earth’s Radiative Energy Budget from Uvsq-Sat (2021–2024) and CERES Observations (2013–2024)

  • Mustapha Meftah,
  • Christophe Dufour,
  • Philippe Keckhut,
  • Alain Sarkissian and
  • Ping Zhu

8 August 2025

The Earth’s Radiation Budget (ERB) is a critical component for understanding the planet’s climate system, as it governs the balance between incoming solar energy and outgoing thermal radiation. Accurate monitoring of the ERB, combined wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,485 Views
12 Pages

Derivation and Validation of a Predictive Score for Respiratory Failure Worsening Leading to Secondary Intubation in COVID-19: The CERES Score

  • Alexandre Gaudet,
  • Benoit Ghozlan,
  • Annabelle Dupont,
  • Erika Parmentier-Decrucq,
  • Mickael Rosa,
  • Emmanuelle Jeanpierre,
  • Constance Bayon,
  • Anne Tsicopoulos,
  • Thibault Duburcq and
  • Julien Poissy
  • + 1 author

13 April 2022

Predictive scores assessing the risk of respiratory failure in COVID-19 mostly focused on the prediction of early intubation. A combined assessment of clinical parameters and biomarkers of endotheliopathy could allow to predict late worsening of acut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
13,706 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2016

The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project provides observations of Earth’s radiation budget using measurements from CERES instruments onboard the Terra, Aqua and Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellites. As...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,253 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing Nitrogen Fertilization to Enhance Productivity and Profitability of Upland Rice Using CSM–CERES–Rice

  • Tajamul Hussain,
  • David J. Mulla,
  • Nurda Hussain,
  • Ruijun Qin,
  • Muhammad Tahir,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Matthew T. Harrison,
  • Sutinee Sinutok and
  • Saowapa Duangpan

25 October 2023

Nitrogen (N) deficiency can limit rice productivity, whereas the over- and underapplication of N results in agronomic and economic losses. Process-based crop models are useful tools and could assist in optimizing N management, enhancing the productio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,059 Views
14 Pages

Optimum Sowing Window and Yield Forecasting for Maize in Northern and Western Bangladesh Using CERES Maize Model

  • Apurba Kanti Choudhury,
  • Md. Samim Hossain Molla,
  • Taslima Zahan,
  • Ranjit Sen,
  • Jatish Chandra Biswas,
  • Sohela Akhter,
  • Sheikh Ishtiaque,
  • Faruque Ahmed,
  • Md. Maniruzaman and
  • Akbar Hossain
  • + 4 authors

26 March 2021

Determination of the optimum sowing window not only can improve maize yield significantly but also can fit maize in the existing cropping pattern. To get the advantages of sowing maize at the optimum time, a study was designed and carried out at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,743 Views
12 Pages

Climate is an essential part of crop production, determining the suitability of a given region for deciduous fruit products such as apples (Malus domestica). It influences the yield and quality of fruits. There is strong evidence of global and region...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,298 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of Three Satellite-Derived Surface Downward Longwave Radiation Products in Polar Regions

  • Xiaozhou Xin,
  • Shanshan Yu,
  • Daozhong Sun,
  • Hailong Zhang,
  • Li Li and
  • Bo Zhong

30 September 2022

The radiation budget in polar regions plays an important role in global climate change study. This study investigates the performance of downward longwave radiation (DLR) of three satellite radiation products in polar regions, including GEWEX-SRB, IS...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,219 Views
11 Pages

Asymmetric Craters on the Dwarf Planet Ceres—Results of Second Extended Mission Data Analysis

  • Katrin Krohn,
  • Ralf Jaumann,
  • Kai Wickhusen,
  • Katharina A. Otto,
  • Elke Kersten,
  • Katrin Stephan,
  • Roland J. Wagner,
  • Carol A. Raymond and
  • Christopher T. Russell

12 November 2019

After almost three years of successful operation on Ceres, the Dawn spacecraft entered its last orbits around the dwarf planet and obtained a set of high-resolution images of 3 to 5 m/pixel. These images reveal a variety of morphologic features, incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,815 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2014

Unclassified variants (UV) of BRCA1 can affect normal pre-mRNA splicing. Here, we investigate the UV c.693G>A, a “silent” change in BRCA1 exon 11, which we have found induces aberrant splicing in patient carriers and in vitro. Using a minigene ass...

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