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# Capabilities

## Download Data

Download GOES ABI or GLM NetCDF files to your local computer. Files can also be read with xarray.

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## RGB Recipes

The `rgb` xarray accessor creates an RGB product for a GOES ABI multichannel xarray.Dataset. See the [demo](https://blaylockbk.github.io/goes2go/_build/html/user_guide/notebooks/DEMO_rgb_recipes.html#) for more examples of RGB products.

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>### Useful Links
>- [🙋🏻‍♂️ Brian's AWS GOES Web Downloader](https://home.chpc.utah.edu/~u0553130/Brian_Blaylock/cgi-bin/goes16_download.cgi)
>- [📔 GOES-R Series Data Book](https://www.goes-r.gov/downloads/resources/documents/GOES-RSeriesDataBook.pdf)
>- [🎠 Beginner's Guide](https://www.goes-r.gov/downloads/resources/documents/Beginners_Guide_to_GOES-R_Series_Data.pdf)
>- [🖥 Rammb Slider GOES Viewer](https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu)
>- [💾 GOES on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/)
>- [🐍 Unidata Plot GOES Data](https://unidata.github.io/python-training/gallery/mapping_goes16_truecolor/)
>- [🗺 Plotting tips form geonetcast blog](https://geonetcast.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/plot-0-5-km-goes-r-full-disk-regions/)
>- [🐍 `glmtools`](https://github.com/deeplycloudy/glmtools/)
>- [🐍 `satpy`](https://github.com/pytroll/satpy)

> ### What if I don't like the GOES-2-go package?
>
> - [🙋🏻‍♂️ Brian's AWS GOES Web Downloader](https://home.chpc.utah.edu/~u0553130/Brian_Blaylock/cgi-bin/goes16_download.cgi)
> - [📔 GOES-R Series Data Book](https://www.goes-r.gov/downloads/resources/documents/GOES-RSeriesDataBook.pdf)
> - [🎠 Beginner's Guide](https://www.goes-r.gov/downloads/resources/documents/Beginners_Guide_to_GOES-R_Series_Data.pdf)
> - [🖥 Rammb Slider GOES Viewer](https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu)
> - [💾 GOES on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/)
> - [🐍 Unidata Plot GOES Data](https://unidata.github.io/python-training/gallery/mapping_goes16_truecolor/)
> - [🗺 Plotting tips form geonetcast blog](https://geonetcast.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/plot-0-5-km-goes-r-full-disk-regions/)
> - [🐍 `glmtools`](https://github.com/deeplycloudy/glmtools/)
> - [🐍 `satpy`](https://github.com/pytroll/satpy)

> ### What if I don't like the GOES-2-go or Python?
>
> As an alternative you can use [rclone](https://rclone.org/) to download GOES files from AWS. I quite like rclone. Here is a [short rclone tutorial](https://github.com/blaylockbk/pyBKB_v3/blob/master/rclone_howto.md).
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I hope you find this makes GOES data easier to retrieve and display. Enjoy!

**Brian Blaylock**
[🌐 Personal Webpage](http://home.chpc.utah.edu/~u0553130/Brian_Blaylock/home.html)
\- Brian Blaylock

👨🏻‍💻 [Contributing Guidelines](https://blaylockbk.github.io/goes2go/_build/html/user_guide/contribute.html)
💬 [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/blaylockbk/goes2go/discussions)
🚑 [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/blaylockbk/goes2go/issues)
🌐 [Personal Webpage](http://home.chpc.utah.edu/~u0553130/Brian_Blaylock/home.html)


P.S. If you like GOES-2-go, check out my [Herbie](https://github.com/blaylockbk/Herbie) package to download weather model data and [SynopticPy](https://github.com/blaylockbk/Herbie) to download mesonet data from the Synoptic API.

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