Documentation Files

Users of these data and software are strongly advised to visit the Important Notices page.

April 2013: NGDC began a new era of POES processing, these documents describe those data:

• External_Users_Manual_POES_MetOp_SEM-2_processing_V1.pdf
• MEPED telescope processing ATBD_V1.pdf
• MEPED_OMNI_processing ATBD_V1.pdf
• TED processing ATBD_V1.pdf

November 1978 - December 2012: SWPC processed data documentation:

• SEM-1 Documentation for TIROS-N through NOAA-14, (version 1.0 January 1985, 2.0 MB pdf ).
• SEM-1 Documentation for TIROS-N through NOAA-14, (1995 update, 13.0 MB pdf ).
• SEM-2 Documentation for NOAA-15 and later satellites:SEM2v2.0.doc, rev 2006
  Figure F.1
  Figure 2.1.1
  Figure 3.2.1
  Figure 3.3.1
  Figure 3.4.1
  Figure 3.4.2
  Appendix A : Archive record description.
  Appendix B : Conversion table for MEPED and TED counts.
  Appendix C : TED Sensor Data Grouped by Unit Serial Number, rev 2006.
  Appendix D : C Language Program to Read an Archive Record.
  Appendix E : FORTRAN Language Program To Read an Archive Record, rev 2009.
  Appendix F : Procedures to recover energetic proton number fluxes from the Omni directional detector responses, rev 2006.
  Appendix G: Processing Problems, Instrument Problems, Updated Information, rev 2007.
  Errata for SEM2 Documentation : rev 2006.
• NOAA-KLM User's Guide with N' Supplement.
• January 7, 2002 -- Status report for NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-15, & NOAA-16
• February 11, 2003 -- Status report for NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, & NOAA-17
• January 8, 2004 -- Status report for NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, & NOAA-17
• January 5, 2005 -- Status report for NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, & NOAA-17
• July 17, 2006 -- NOAA-18 reprocessing.
• January 10, 2008 -- Status report for NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18 & MetOp-02
• Column descriptions for the 16s averages in ASCII files.

Software (C & IDL) for decoding SEM-1 binary archive files.
Software (C & Fortran) for decoding SEM-2 binary archive files.

The NORAD orbital elements for NOAA and TIROS- N satellites are available from CelestraK.

JGR2010_Use_of_POES_SEM-2_observations_to_examine_radiation_belt.pdf

JGR2010_Origin_of_energetic_electron_precipitation_30_keV.pdf,
Appendix A: Removing Proton Contamination From the POES MEPED Electron Measurements.

J.B.Blake and W.A.Kolasinski, Aerospace Corporation -- Preliminary Evaluation of HEPAD Performance
This document discusses data from TIROS-N and NOAA-6 and isn't dated.

NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL SEL-75, The TIROS-N / NOAA A-J Space Environment Monitor Subsystem, R.A. Seale and R.H. Bushnell, April 1987, Part I, Part II

Evans, D.S., 1994. A study of intense auroral electron precipitation events. In Proceedings of the Second Space Environment Center Users Conference, Boulder, CO.

Leap Calendar

Static displays of NOAA data created for various projects:

• NOAA-11 anomalies plotted on a background of NOAA-10 electron fluxes. (GIF)
• Stack plots showing the NOAA-12 > .3 MeV electrons at L4.5 - L4.8 and GOES-8 > 2 MeV electrons at L6.6. These plots show the affect of smoothing on the NOAA-12 data, an algorithm for detecting NOAA-12 event start and peak times, and an exponential decay model for those events. (PDF, 12/23/98)

• Jan 1997
• Jan - Mar 1997
• Jan - Jun 1997
• Jul - Dec 1997