Jesper W Gjerloev Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
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Jesper W. Gjerloev Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA Super. MAG In The RBSP Era Past Present Near Future
What is Super. MAG? Super. MAG is a global collaboration that provides ground magnetic field perturbations from a long list of stations in the same coordinate system, identical time resolution and with a common baseline removal approach. The collected and processed high quality ground based magnetic field data provide a unique capability of addressing the global spatiotemporal behavior of the large-scale ionospheric electric current system and its coupling to the magnetosphere. However, the inherent problems with ground magnetometer data can complicate or even prevent global studies. Data are provided in a variety of file formats, temporal resolutions, units, coordinate systems and are provided with or without some baseline subtracted. Super. MAG is: - Fully operational and online at http: //supermag. jhuapl. edu - Funded by both NSF and NASA - Super. MAG is the logical way forward for the ground magnetometer community
The Growing Super. MAG Family Intermagnet DMI ICESTAR Rapid. Mag Carisma Athabasca U. BAS Image SAMBA SAMNET MEASURE MACCS 210 Chain USGS AARI GIMA Penguin Kyoto WDC Autumn
Current Status Of Super. MAG is fully operational. Went online in January 2009 and currently: • >18. 000 hits last month • >100 registered users • ~700 unique IP addresses last month All measures of usage are increasing every month. Super. MAG constantly: • Add features • Improve tools • Improve data quality • Add to the data holdings. All suggestions, corrections, comments are welcome.
Super. MAG And RBSP While real-time data is not currently served by Super. MAG, the comprehensive data handling software package has no inherent problems dealing with real-time data. This includes: - determine and rotate to local magnetic coordinate system - determine and subtract baselines The website can: - ingest and display real-time data Relevant science: - Empirical magnetic field models (TS-like modelling) - Global monitoring of Pc-1 to Pc-5 pulsations (RB mechanisms: EMIC/ULF waves) - Global ionospheric currents and their coupling to the magnetosphere Super. MAG is ready to serve the RBSP community.
