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NESDIS SWFO CCOR 1 PDS·dataset

Sun coronagraph imagery for space-weather warnings (NOAA GOES-19)

NOAA Space Weather Follow-On Mission Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 19
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In plain English

What it measures. Images of the Sun's outer atmosphere (the corona), capturing faint light scattered off coronal electrons and dust. These observations are aimed at spotting eruptions of solar material headed toward Earth.

How it's made. Produced by the Compact Coronagraph-1 instrument aboard NOAA's GOES-19 satellite as part of the Space Weather Follow-On mission, generating dozens of image files per day.

How & where you'd use it. Feeds space-weather forecasting, helping warn of solar storms that can disrupt satellites, power grids, and communications.

What's measured

aws-pdsspace weathersatellite imagery

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span— → ongoing

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 19 (GOES-19) is the fourth and final satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series, the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated weather-observing and environmental monitoring system. The GOES-R Series provides advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and space weather observations. As a part of the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Mission, the GOES-19 spacecraft contains a Compact Coronagraph-1 (CCOR-1) instrument that produces 96 files per day per level in the FITS format. These data are produced by the CCOR-1 instrument aboard the GOES-19 spacecraft. The instrument observes broadband optical light that is scattered from coronal electrons and heliospheric dust. The spacecraft also produces daily auxiliary (telemetry and attitude) files in NetCDF4 format.

Get the data

noaa_access.py
# NOAA Open Data on AWS — public S3, no login
import s3fs

fs = s3fs.S3FileSystem(anon=True)
# find this dataset's bucket in the docs link in the sidebar, then:
# files = fs.ls("noaa-<bucket>/...")
# open NetCDF/GRIB with xarray, COGs with rioxarray
NOAA Open Data is on public AWS S3 — no login at all (anonymous access).