GOES-16/17/18 on Amazon Download Page
This page makes it easy to explore the GOES dataset on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and download files with the click of a mouse.
- Select the desired domain, product, date, and hour for which you want to download.
- The "source" option refers to where the data is downloaded from. AWS is Amazon's cloud. OCC is the Open Commons Consortium and has GOES files from the last 7-8 months. If you get an XML error when downloading from the Amazon source, try switching to OCC. Check the URL in bold below to confirm the source.
- Click the submit button.
- A blue box appears for every file that is available.
- The L1b Radiances and L2 Cloud and Moisture Imagery have separate files for each of the 16 bands.
- All other L2 products have a single file for each observation time.
- The number on the blue box represents the minute the scan started.
- Full disk scans are available every 15 minutes, CONUS scans are available every 5 minutes, and mesoscale scans are available every minute.
- Some L2 products are not available for all domains.
- Click the desired file and the download will begin.
Also check out the Alternative Download Page
For bulk and scripted downloads, consider using rclone, AWS CLI, Python's s3fs library, or NOAA CLASS.
Downloaded files are in NetCDF format. For example:
OR_ABI-L1b-RadM1-M3C01_G16_s20172511100550_e20172511101007_c20172511101048.nc
- OR - data is operational and in real-time
- ABI-L1b-RadM1- - is the product, with the mesoscale 1 domain. C is for CONUS, F is for full disk, and M2 is for Mesoscale 2.
- M3C01 - Mode is 3 and Channel is 01
- G16 - GOES-16 (G17 for GOES-17 and G18 for GOES-18)
- s20172511100550 - scan start time sYYYYJJJHHMMSSm: year, day of year, hour, minute, second, tenth second
- e20172511101007 - scan end time sYYYYJJJHHMMSSm: year, day of year, hour, minute, second, tenth second
- c20172511101048 - scan file creation time sYYYYJJJHHMMSSm: year, day of year, hour, minute, second, tenth second
- .nc - This is a NetCDF file.
More details can be found on Amazon's page.
Data from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is downloaded from Amazon S3 . Read this description about the data.
The base download URL is https://noaa-goes16.s3.amazonaws.com
The file path is: /product/year/day_of_year/hour/file_name
Usefull Links:
- GOES-R Homepage
- Channels Approx. File Sizes
- ABI Bands Quick Information Guides
- GOES-16 User Guide
- GOES-R ABI Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
- GOES Band Reference Guide
- More GOES-16 Links
- All the GOES-R Docs
| Band Number | Resolution (km) | Wavelength | Spectrum | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1 | 0.47 µm | Visible | Blue Band | |
| 02 | 0.5 | 0.64 µm | Visible | Red Band | |
| 03 | 1 | 0.86 µm | Near-IR | Veggie Band | |
| 04 | 2 | 1.37 µm | Near-IR | Cirrus Band | |
| 05 | 1 | 1.60 µm | Near-IR | Snow/Ice Band | |
| 06 | 2 | 2.24 µm | Near-IR | Cloud Prticle Size Band | |
| 07 | 2 | 3.90 µm | IR | Shortwave Window Band | |
| 08 | 2 | 6.20 µm | IR | Upper-Troposphere WV Band | |
| 09 | 2 | 6.90 µm | IR | Mid-Level Troposphere WV Band | |
| 10 | 2 | 7.30 µm | IR | Low-Level Troposphere WV Band | |
| 11 | 2 | 8.40 µm | IR | Cloud-Top Phase Band | |
| 12 | 2 | 9.60 µm | IR | Ozone Band | |
| 13 | 2 | 10.3 µm | IR | Clean IR Longwave Band | |
| 14 | 2 | 11.2 µm | IR | IR Longwave Band | |
| 15 | 2 | 12.3 µm | IR | Dirty IR Longwave Band | |
| 16 | 2 | 13.3 µm | IR | CO2 Longwave IR Band |
Note: The resolution of the Multi-band files for all channels and other L2 products is 2 km.
Python
Brian's GOES-2-go package
You can view and download files from public AWS buckets with Python's s3fs library.
rclone
My tutorial uses rclone to access public GOES-16 files from Amazon Web Services. Brian's rclone Tutorial
Amazon Web Services CLI
Google Cloud Platform gsutil
Example:
gsutil cp gs://gcp-public-data-goes-16/GLM-L2-LCFA/2019/100/00/OR_GLM-L2-LCFA_G16_s20191000059400_e20191000100000_c20191000100027.nc .
NOAA CLASS
This is a bit laborious.
