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January 10, 2011
Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
Plots of Space Weather Data
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GOES 15 to replace GOES 11 as Secondary SWPC
GOES Satellite for Protons, Electrons, and Magnetometer
in late February
January 10, 2011 -- GOES 15 will replace GOES 11 on plots as the
Secondary SWPC GOES Satellite for Protons, Electrons, and Magnetometer
in late February. See details at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/Data/goes.html
===========================================================================
This directory has 3-day plots of Space Weather data in GIF format.
The current day's plots are updated every 5 minutes. Plot files for
the last 60 days are on the SWPC Anonymous FTP server and accessible
via the Web.
Via Anonymous FTP: ftp.swpc.noaa.gov cd to /pub/plots/
Via the Web: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/plots.html
The SWPC Warehouse is an FTP directory with historical SWPC Products
and plots from 1996 up to the current day.
Via Anonymous FTP: ftp.swpc.noaa.gov cd to /pub/warehouse/
Via the Web: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/warehouse/
Plots are in sub-directories named by data type.
xray GOES X-ray Flux Data (5-min data)
electron GOES Energetic Electron Flux (5-min data)
proton GOES Integral Proton Flux (5-min data)
goeshp GOES Magnetometer, H-component (1-min data)
kp Estimated Planetary K-indices (5-min data)
satenv Satellite Environment (GOES Protons, Electrons,
HP, and est. Kp)
Plot files are named with the year, month, day of the last day
on the plot and the data type. For example, 20060206_xray.gif
is the X-ray plot for February 4-6, 2006.
Static filenames for the latest plots and updating web pages are
described at: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/
The "support" directory contains short ascii text files with to
current West longitude of each GOES satellite, updated daily.
/ftp/pub/plots/support/
Data change notices: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/Data/notices.html
Old Data Plot notices are at the bottom of this page.
***************************************************************
** Please read the SWPC Disclaimer at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
** before using the forecasts and data in these reports.
***************************************************************
SWPC provides near-real-time and recent data, solar and geomagnetic
indices and solar event reports created from preliminary reports.
Preliminary data may contain errors or be revised after further
review. The historical products in this SWPC Warehouse are the
preliminary reports as originally published. SWPC does not encourage
the use of preliminary data for research purposes.
Links to archive sites with final data: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/Data/
***************************************************************
Send questions and suggestions to SWPC.WebMaster@noaa.gov
Send problem reports to SWPC.CustomerSupport@noaa.gov
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OLD NOTICES
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GOES 15 Designated Primary X-ray Satellite
October 28, 2010 -- GOES 15 replaced GOES 14 as the Primary SWPC GOES
X-ray Satellite. GOES 14 is being moved into storage. There is no
Secondary SWPC GOES X-ray satellite.
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At 0000UT OCTOBER 28
GOES 15 Will Replace GOES 14 as Primary Satellite for XRS data
October 13, 2010: At 0000 UT October 28 GOES 15 will replace GOES 14
as the Primary SWPC GOES X-ray Satellite. GOES 14 is being moved into
storage. There is no Secondary SWPC GOES X-ray satellite.
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GOES 13 Designated Primary Satellite for
Proton, Electron and Magnetometer Data
April 14, 2010 -- GOES 13 became the Primary SWPC GOES Satellite for the
Proton, Electron and Magnetometer instruments and GOES 11 was designated
the Secondary Satellite. GOES 12 is being decommissioned.
GOES 13 is drifting to the GOES West longitude. It will be at West 75 by
April 26, 2010.
Revised Geometrical Factors for GOES 13, 14 and 15 EPEAD Electron Channels
See the SWPC GOES Satellites web page for details and a list of changed
products. http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/Data/goes.html
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On April 14, 2010
GOES 13 will be designated Primary GOES Satellite for
Proton, Electron and Magnetometer Data
April 6, 2010: On Wednesday, 14 April, the GOES 12 satellite will
be decommissioned. At that time, GOES 13 will become the Primary
SWPC GOES Satellite for the Proton, Electron, and Magnetometer
instruments. GOES 11 will become the Secondary Satellite.
Beginning at 0000UT April 14 these Satellite Environment, Electron Flux,
and Proton Flux plots will show GOES 13 data. The Magnetometer plot
will show GOES 13 and 11 data.
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GOES 14 Primary Satellite for XRS data
December 2, 2009: The GOES 10 satellite was decommissioned Dec 1.
GOES 14 is the SWPC Primary SWPC GOES X-ray Satellite.
3-day X-ray Plots with show GOES 14 data
3-day Electron Plots with show only GOES 11 data
The GOES 10 and GOES 14 XRS instruments have very different electronics and
therefore, there aree some qualitative changes in the appearance of the
data. The main difference is the level of noise in the data at the
lowest values. When the background levels are low (less than 2E-8 W/m2 or
A2.0), the GOES 10 data looks flat and the steps are very abrupt. At these
low flux levels, the GOES 14 data are quite noisy. As the x-ray flux
levels rise up above 2E-8, the noise will decrease and the plots will look
very similar to GOES 10.
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GOES 10 Decommissioning Dec 1, 2009
GOES 14 Becomes Primary Satellite for XRS data
No Secondary Satellite for X-rays or Electrons and Protons
November 17, 2009: On Tuesday, 01 December, the GOES 10 satellite will
be officially decommissioned. At that time, GOES 14 will replace GOES 10
as the Primary SWPC GOES X-ray Satellite.
3-day X-ray Plots with show GOES 14 data beginning Dec 1, 2009
3-day Electron Plots with show only GOES 11 data beginning Dec 1, 2009
Changes to the GOES XRS Data
The GOES 10 and GOES 14 XRS instruments have very different electronics and
therefore, there will be some qualitative changes in the appearance of the
data. The main difference will be the level of noise in the data at the
lowest values. When the background levels are low (less than 2E-8 W/m2 or
A2.0), the GOES 10 data looks flat and the steps are very abrupt. At these
low flux levels, the GOES 14 data will be quite noisy. As the x-ray flux
levels rise up above 2E-8, the noise will decrease and the plots will look
very similar to the GOES 10 data.
# =====================================================================
GOES 11 Becomes Primary Electron Satellite, GOES 10 Secondary
December 1, 2008 -- On Friday, 28 November, the GOES 12 Electron sensor
began experiencing periods of noisy data. On December 1 SWPC changed its
GOES Electron satellite designation to make GOES 11 the primary GOES
Electron satellite and GOES 10 the secondary.
Beginning December 1, the 3-day GOES Electron Flux Plots show GOES 11
and GOES 10 data.
# =====================================================================