Solar Dynamic Observatory data at the Solar Influences Data analysis Center

SDO data @ SIDC

Introduction

The SDO data center is dedicated to the acquisition of SDO/AIA and SDO/HMI data from the Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) located in Stanford, and the subsequent provision of the data to SIDC scientists .

It was completely reinstalled in 2013 to take into account the new hardware, and the needs of the SIDC scientists and services.

Data Availibility

If you are a SIDC scientist, you can access the data directly on yama under /data/SDO/

Data Access

For any other data, we recommend to use the tools provided by JSOC to download the data directly from them.

Access SDO data via IDL and the VSO & SolarSoft library

You can search and download AIA & HMI data from IDL through the VSO with the SolarSoft library, see the tutorial on how to search and download data and examples how to make videos for AIA or HMI.

Access SDO data via Python & SunPy

You can search and download AIA & HMI data via Python by using the SunPy library, see the tutorial on how to search and download data, and the tutorial on how to request cutouts of AIA images from the JSOC

Meetings and Presentations

Some of the information below is now obsolete and is kept for archiving reasons.