National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
GOES X-ray Flux
datasetobservational / measurementIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder
Description
GOES X-ray flux plots of 1-minute averages of solar X-rays in the 0.05–0.4 and 0.1–0.8 nm bands, used to track solar flares that can black out HF radio on the sunlit side of Earth; archive files on the SWPC warehouse FTP.
Official page
https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/goes-x-ray-flux
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- Access summary
- download
- Download or access
- ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/warehouse/
Contact
- Contact
- (no name)
Details
- Keywords
- solar flares, x-ray flux, goes satellites, hf radio transmissions, solar activity tracking
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Temporal cadence
- 1-minute averages
- Associated entity
- NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- Specifications
- The begin time of an X-ray event is defined as the first minute, in a sequence of 4 minutes, of steep monotonic increase in 0.1-0.8 nm flux. | The GOES X-ray flux 6-hour and three-day plots contain 1-minute averages of solar X-rays in the 1-8 Angstro…