Explanatory tables for the list of Ground-Based Observing Stations
Instrument Codes
Code | Meaning |
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AS | Spectrometer, Auroral |
ASC | All-Sky Camera, Analog |
ASCD | All-Sky Camera, Digital |
ASP | Photometer, Azimuth Scanning |
ATV | Auroral TV Camera |
BLS | bls ??? |
CHF | Coherent HF Radar |
COR | Coronograph |
CUHF | Coherent UHF Radar |
CVHF | Coherent VHF Radar |
D | Doppler Sounder |
DA | da ??? |
DYN | Dynasonde |
E | e ??? |
ELF | ELF Receiver |
ES | Ebert Spectrometer |
EUVI | Extreme Ultra-Violet Imager |
F10.7 | Solar Radio Flux Monitor (F10.7) |
FPI | Fabry Perot Interferometer |
HI | Heliospheric Imager |
I | Ionosonde, Analog |
ID | Ionosonde, Digital |
IPS | Interplanetary Scintillation Array |
IS | Incoherent Scatter Radar |
LF-HF | LF, MF and HF Receiver |
M | Magnetometer |
MF | MF Radar |
MI | Michelson Interferometer |
MIS | Spectrograph, Meridian scanning |
MOI | Monochromatic Imager |
MP | Magnetometer, Pulsation |
MSP | Photometer, Meridian Scanning |
NM | Neutron Monitor |
OS | Spectrometer, Optical |
P | Photometer |
PI | Photometer, Imaging |
PRE | Partial Reflection Experiment |
R | Riometer |
RI | Riometer, Imaging |
RR | Rocket Range |
RT | Radio Telescope |
SC | Satellite Scintillation Detector |
SI | Spectrometer, Imaging |
SIR | Scanning Infrared Radiometer |
SM | Spectrometer, Microwave |
SS | Solar Seismology Detector |
ST | Solar Telescope |
SUV | Spectrometer, Ultra-violet |
TEC | Total Electron Content Measurements |
VLF | VLF Receiver |
(c) | campaign use only |
(p) | planned at time of most recent information |
(s) | instrument no longer operating (shut) |
(ro) | receiver only |
Chain, Instrument and Data Centre Acronyms
Acronym | Group |
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210E | Longitude 210 East Magnetometer Network |
AGONET | Antarctic Geospace Observatory NETwork |
ALIS | Auroral Large Imaging System |
CARISMA | Canadian Array for Realtime Investigations of Magnetic Activity |
CGSM | Canadian Geospace Monitoring Program |
CO | Contracted Oval index magnetometer stations |
COSCAT | COSCAT |
CUTLASS | Co-operative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System |
DASI | Digital All Sky Imager |
DIMNET | DIxon meridian Magnetometer NETwork |
EISCAT | European Incoherent Scatter |
EO | Expanded Oval index magnetometer stations |
FASCC | Finnish All-Sky Camera Chain |
GIMA | The Geophysical Institute Magnetometer Array |
Greenland | Greenland Magnetometer Array |
IMAGE | International Monitor for Auroral Geomagnetic Effects |
INGV | Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia |
Intermagnet | INTERnational MAGNETometer database |
IRIS | Imaging Riometer for Ionospheric Studies |
MACCS | Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies |
MAGIC | Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap |
MEASURE | Magnetometers along the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard for Undergraduate Research and Education Program |
MIRACLE | Magnetometers - Ionospheric Radars - Allsky Cameras Large Experiment |
NGDC | National Geophysical Data Centre |
PENGUIN | Polar Experiment Network for Geophysical Upper-atmosphere INvestigations |
SAMNET | Sub-Auroral Magnetometer NETwork |
SAPPHIRE | SAPPHIRE |
SECCHI | Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation |
SIRN | Scandinavian Imaging Riometer Network |
SO | Standard Oval index magnetometer stations |
STARE | Scandinavian Twin Auroral Radar Experiment |
SuperDARN | Super Dual Auroral Radar Network |
TOMO | TOMOgraphy receiver network |
ULCAR | University of Lowell Center for Atmospheric Research |
USGS | US Geological Survey Geomagnetic Program |
WDC-A | World Data Center A for STP |
WDC-C1 | World Data Centre C1 for STP |
Station Synonyms
Station | Synonym |
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Andoya | Andenes |
Arviat | Eskimo Point |
Athabasca | Meanook |
Barrow | Point Barrow |
Calcutta | Haringhata, Kolkata |
Clyde | Clyde River |
Dumont d'Urville | Terre Adelie |
Fort Churchill | Churchill |
Fredricksburg | Fredericksburg |
Great Whale Riv. | Kuujjuarrapik, Post-de-La-Baleine |
Habana | Cuba |
Iqaluit | Frobisher B, Frobisher Bay |
Ittoqqortoormiit | Scoresbysund |
Jeju | Jeju Island |
Kangerlussuaq | Sondre Stromfjord |
Maniitsoq | Sukkertoppen |
Martin de Vivies | Amsterdam Island |
Maynard | Boston |
Nuuk | Godthaab |
Paamiut | Frederikshaab |
Port Alfred | Crozet Archipelago |
Port-aux-Francais | Kerguelen Islands |
Puerto Rico | Ramey |
Qaanaaq | Thule |
Qeqertarsuaq | Godhavn |
Resolute | Resolute Bay |
Sondrestrom | Sondre Stromfjord |
Stennis | Bay St. Louis |
Tasiilaq | Ammassalik |
Terre Adelie | Dumont d'Urville |
Uummannaq | Umanaq |
Vernadsky | Argentine Islands, Faraday |
Warsaw | Miedzeszyn |
Zhongshan | Zhong-Shan |