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Ionosphere-Thermosphere Data Published in "Responses of the Thermosphere and Ionosphere System to Concurrent Solar Flares and Geomagnetic Storms"

netcdf file:///data/2f937471-d891-419c-aebc-5d0222fde90e/g13_xrs_2s_20170905_20170905.nc-73530774-7a7c-4f85-a9cb-cb9ce813da30 {
  dimensions:
    record = UNLIMITED;   // (42188 currently)
    orbit = 1;
  variables:
    double time_tag_orbit(orbit=1);
      :long_name = "Date and time for each west_longitude and inclination pair";
      :units = "milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 UTC";
      :calendar = "gregorian";

    float west_longitude(orbit=1);
      :description = "West longitude of satellite sub-orbit point at the given date and time.";
      :long_label = "West longitude";
      :short_label = "w long";
      :plot_label = "West longitude";
      :lin_log = "lin";
      :units = "degrees";
      :format = "F5.1";
      :nominal_min = "70";
      :nominal_max = "140";
      :missing_value = "-99999";

    float inclination(orbit=1);
      :description = "Inclination -- the angle between the plane of the orbit and the equatorial plane measured counter-clockwise from true East.";
      :long_label = "inclination";
      :short_label = "incl";
      :plot_label = "inclination";
      :lin_log = "lin";
      :units = "degrees";
      :format = "F6.3";
      :nominal_min = "0";
      :nominal_max = "1";
      :missing_value = "-99999";

    double time_tag(record=42188);
      :long_name = "Date and time for each observation";
      :units = "milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 UTC";
      :calendar = "gregorian";

    float A_QUAL_FLAG(record=42188);
      :description = "Quality flag non-zero value indicates data quality issue.";
      :long_label = "quality flag";
      :short_label = "qf";
      :plot_label = " ";
      :lin_log = "lin";
      :units = "qf";
      :format = "I";
      :nominal_min = "0";
      :nominal_max = "4294967295";
      :missing_value = "99999";

    float A_COUNT(record=42188);
      :description = "Analog detector response is converted to counts before telemetry.";
      :long_label = "x-ray (0.05-0.4 nm) counts";
      :short_label = "xs cts";
      :plot_label = "A_COUNT";
      :lin_log = "lin";
      :units = "counts";
      :format = "E10.4";
      :nominal_min = "14000";
      :nominal_max = "17000";
      :missing_value = "-99999";

    float A_FLUX(record=42188);
      :description = "XRS short wavelength channel irradiance (0.05 - 0.4 nm)";
      :long_label = "x-ray (0.05-0.4 nm) irradiance";
      :short_label = "xs fx";
      :plot_label = "XS(0.05-0.4 nm)";
      :lin_log = "log";
      :units = "W/m^2";
      :format = "E10.4";
      :nominal_min = "0.000000001";
      :nominal_max = "0.001";
      :missing_value = "-99999";

    float B_QUAL_FLAG(record=42188);
      :description = "Quality flag non-zero value indicates data quality issue.";
      :long_label = "quality flag";
      :short_label = "qf";
      :plot_label = "qf";
      :lin_log = "lin";
      :units = "qf";
      :format = "I";
      :nominal_min = "0";
      :nominal_max = "4294967295";
      :missing_value = "99999";

    float B_COUNT(record=42188);
      :description = "Analog detector response is converted to counts before telemetry.";
      :long_label = "x-ray (0.1-0.8 nm) counts";
      :short_label = "xl cts";
      :plot_label = "B_COUNT";
      :lin_log = "lin";
      :units = "counts";
      :format = "E10.4";
      :nominal_min = "14000";
      :nominal_max = "17000";
      :missing_value = "-99999";

    float B_FLUX(record=42188);
      :description = "XRS long wavelength channel irradiance (0.1-0.8 nm)";
      :long_label = "x-ray (0.1-0.8 nm) irradiance";
      :short_label = "xl fx";
      :plot_label = "XL(0.1-0.8 nm)";
      :lin_log = "log";
      :units = "W/m^2";
      :format = "E10.4";
      :nominal_min = "0.000000001";
      :nominal_max = "0.001";
      :missing_value = "-99999";

  // global attributes:
  :conventions = "GOES Space Weather";
  :title = "GOES X-ray Sensor";
  :institution = "NOAA";
  :source = "Satellite Insitu Observations";
  :satellite_id = "GOES-13";
  :instrument = "X-ray Sensor";
  :process-type = "Full resolution";
  :process-level = "level 1b";
  :sample-time = "2.048";
  :sample-unit = "seconds";
  :creation_date = "2017-09-06 09:14:40.591 UTC";
  :start_date = "2017-09-05 00:00:01.767 UTC";
  :end_date = "2017-09-05 23:59:59.747 UTC";
  :records_maximum = "42188";
  :records_present = "42188";
  :records_missing = "0";
  :originating_agency = "DOC/NOAA/NCEP/NWS/SWPC";
  :archiving_agency = "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI";
  :NOAA_scaling_factors = "The XRS data for GOES 8-15 include NOAA scaling factors which must be removed to get observed fluxes.  To remove these factors, divide the short channel fluxes (A_FLUX) by 0.85 and divide the long channel fluxes (B_FLUX) by 0.7.";
  :data_note = "These GOES-13 XRS data have been corrected, see document GOES_XRS_readme.pdf.";
}