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Numerical Data Product: Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre Townsville Magnetometer

Resource ID

spase://ASWS/NumericalData/Magnetometer/Tvl_Magnetometer

Name

Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre Townsville Magnetometer

Alternate name

Description

The magnetometer data provides a measure of variations of the Earth's magnetic field in 2 or 3 orthogonal directions, typically in the geomagnetic north-south and east-west directions as well as vertically. Space Weather Services archives digital magnetometer data recorded from a number of field installations, some of which are collaborative installations with other organizations. Magnetometer data is used to derive a number of indices relevant to specific industry groups as well drive space weather warnings and alerts. Magnetometer data and its derived products are also used in Space Weather Services reports and products as well for space weather forecasting and geomagnetic storm monitoring. A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by its interaction with transient features of the solar wind. Geomagnetic storms may be hazardous to critical infrastructure such as power networks and long pipelines as well as interfere with mineral exploration surveys and directional drilling. Geomagnetic storms also modulate hazardous environments for satellites and lead to ionospheric disturbances that cause degraded HF radio communications, radar scintillation, and compromise GNSS precision navigation systems. Geomagnetic data is used to derive products that are used in Space Weather Services' reports and alerts primarily in the form of geomagnetic indices. The Fluxgate Magnetometer in Townsville is owned and operated by BoM since 16/10/1998. An ICSWSE/BoM magnetometer was installed at Townsville on 22/12/2005 and still monitring now. The ICSWSE magnetometers data is only available in the WDC Intranet.

Additional information

World Data Centre: Data Display and Download: Magnetometer

includes browse display interface, button to get daily data file and link to data availability chart

Language

en

Documentation

includes descriptions of station logfiles, data formats and examples and hardware

Language

en

Real Time Information

Online viewer of real time magnetograms data, indices, maps, alerts and warnings, and reports and forecasts

Language

en

Acknowledgement

Contact

	Role	Person
1.	General contact	spase://ASWS/Person/Kehe.Wang
2.	Metadata contact	spase://ASWS/Person/Kehe.Wang

Release date

2017-07-18 17:00:00

Repository

Name

spase://SMWG/Repository/SWS

Availability

Online

Access rights

Open

URL

https access to raw magnetometer data

https access to the station log file and raw magetometer data of Townsville

Language

en

Format

Text

Encoding

None

Acknowledgement

Provider processing level

The original magnetometer data are raw data and are uncalibrated.

Instrument

spase://ASWS/Instrument/Ground/Townsville/Magnetometer

Measurement type

Passive waves

Temporal description

Start date

1998-10-16 00:00:00

Relative stop date

1 day ago

Note

The earliest magnetometer data since 16/10/1998. Digital magnetometer data are current to within a day.

Observed regions

Earth.Magnetosphere

Caveats

Keywords

Earth's Magnetic Field

Geomagnetic Storm

Magnetometer

Magnetosphere

Parameters