1. CERES Update • As for CERES status: • CERES instruments on Terra and Aqua performing nominally (except for SW channel on FM4 which failed in March 2005) • Release of SSF1deg, SYN1deg and EBAF Ed2.6 on new CERES subsetter/visualization/ordering tool: http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/order_data.php • Merged CERES Terra and Aqua data code has been delivered to ASDC. In testing. • Latest Edition of CERES cloud code delivered (Edition4) to ASDC. Production to start in September. • Upcoming events:- Next CERES science team meeting October 4-6, 2011 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.- CERES FM5 on NPP launch date October 25, 2011.- Special Aqua@10 Union session at Fall AGU in December. • Science Results:- Paper refuting Trenberth's "Missing Energy" Science Perspectives paper.   The paper has been submitted to Nature Geosciences.

2. Paper to Nature Geosciences Heating of Earth's Climate System Continues Despite Lack of Surface Warming in Past Decade Norman G. Loeb1*, John M. Lyman2,3, Gregory C. Johnson3, Richard P. Allan4, David R. Doelling1, Takmeng Wong1, Brian J. Soden5 and Graeme L. Stephens6

3. Paper to Nature Geosciences