Solar flare rates and probabilities based on the McIntosh classification: Impacts of GOES/XRS rescaling and revisited sunspot classifications
In December 2019, the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) started using the GOES1-16 satellite as its primary input for solar X-ray flux monitoring.As such, it stopped applying a scaling factor that had been applied since the GOES-8 came into operation.This has an important impact on the number of flares that can be expected and on the flare rat