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rdustinb / noaasolarweather

Python graphing script that pulls real time NOAA satellite data and displays it in a graph.
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Convert to NOAA Data FTP Access? #21

Open rdustinb opened 9 years ago

rdustinb commented 9 years ago

I discovered multiple repositories of NOAA's data sets that are available via FTP that also include historical data sets for multiple years in the past. An example of the FTP data is here:

ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/lists/ace/

There are four "real-time" data files in this folder as this folder contains ALL ACE data. NOAA also produces historical data files, see the README in the FTP folders.

rdustinb commented 9 years ago

More consistent data sets available here:

ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/lists/

arnoldmashava commented 8 years ago

There are data accessibility issues, via both http and ftp connections. Not that it's a bug in the code but just the NOAA servers just don't want anyone to access them...

rdustinb commented 8 years ago

Thanks arnoldmashava, yes one thing I've found is that accessing NOAA's server directly have major accessibility issues. Unless they open up the data sources to where others can store data for fallback reasons, I am not sure how to improve reliability.