# Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center. # Please send comments and suggestions to sec@sec.noaa.gov # # Source: NOAA POES (Whatever is aloft) # Units: gigawatts # Format: # The first line of data contains the four-digit year of the data. # Each following line is formatted as in this example: # NOAA-12(S) 10031 9.0 4 .914 # Please note that if the first line of data in the file has a # day-of-year of 365 (or 366) and a HHMM of greater than 2300, # that polar pass started at the end of the previous year and # ended on day-of-year 001 of the current year. # A7 NOAA POES Satellite number # A3 (S) or (N) - hemisphere # I3 Day of year # I4 UT hour and minute # F8.1 Estimated Hemispheric Power in gigawatts # I3 Hemispheric Power Index (activity level) # F8.3 Normalizing factor There is no power data available for 1986. NOAA-10 was the only POES satellite aloft, and the instrument was not behaving well.