MM100 participation in WHI campaign

20 March â 16 April, 2008

Participants:

Balazs Heilig (coordinator) , Eotvos Lorand Geophyisical Institute, Hungary heilig@elgi.hu

Andras Csontos , Eotvos Lorand Geophyisical Institute, Hungary

Peter Kovacs , Eotvos Lorand Geophyisical Institute, Hungary

Viktor Wesztergom , Geodetical and Geophysical Research Institute, Hungary wv@ggki.hu

Magdalena Vacyova , Hubanovo Geophysical Observatory of SAS, Slovakia

Jan Reda , Geophysical Institute of Polish Acad. of Sciences, Poland jreda@igf.edu.pl

Tero Raita , Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland tero.raita@sgo.fi

Kari Pajunpää , Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland Kari.Pajunpaa@fmi.fi

1) Observatory and/or Instrument

Station

IAGA

code

applied instrument

MM100 member
since

Geographic coordinates

AACGM coordinates*

L-shell

name

operating institute

north latitude

east longitude

north latitude

east longitude

Kilpisjärvi

FMI

(IMAGE)

KIL

LEMI-004

Sep 2001

69.02°

20.79°

66.10°

104.00°

6.09

Sodankylä

SGO

(IMAGE)

SOD

PSM

Sep 2001

67.37°

26.63°

64.16°

107.46°

5.26

Hankasalami

FMI

(IMAGE)

HAN

FGE

Sep 2001

62.30°

26.65°

59.01°

104.78°

3.77

Nurmijärvi

FMI

(IMAGE)

NUR

FGE

Sep 2001

60.52°

24.65°

57.23°

102.34°

3.41

Tartu

FMI

(IMAGE)

TAR

FGE

Sep 2001

58.26

26.46°

54.80°

103.04°

3.01

Suwalki

PAS

SUW

PSM
8511-01P

Oct 2007

54.01°

23.18°

50.34°

98.83°

2.45

Belsk

PAS

BEL

PSM

8511-01P

Jan 2003

51.83°

20.80°

48.01°

96.15°

2.23

Nagycenk

ELGI-USGS

NCK

NAROD

S-100

Aug 2000

47.63°

16.72°

43.27°

91.53°

1.89

Tihany

ELGI-USGS

THY

NAROD

S-100

Jul 1999

46.90°

17.89°

42.44°

92.39°

1.84

* 2001, Altitude Adjusted Geomagnetic Coordinates, referred to 100 km reference height.

More information: http://www.elgi.hu/newwww/index.php?akt_menu=564

2) Written assessment/summary of daily observations:

Continuous geomagnetic recordings with 1 s time resolution.

3) Summary plots and images:

4) Data access:

The data will be available at our ftp server soon: ftp.elgi.hu/pub/mm100/

Please download the data from this server and publish on the WHI website.

5) Publication(s) or website describing instrument or the instrument's data:

http://www.elgi.hu/newwww/index.php?akt_menu=564

Heilig B., H. Lühr, M. Rother Comprehensive study of ULF upstream waves observed in the topside ionosphere by CHAMP and on the ground. Annales Geophysicae, 25, 737-754, 2007.

Heilig B., A. Csontos, L. Pankratz, K. PajunpÃ¤Ã¤, J. Kultima, T. Raita, J. Reda, M. VÃ¡czyovÃ¡ (2007), Upstream wave related Pc3 pulsations observed by the MM100 meridional magnetometer array, Publs. Inst. Geophys. Pol. Acad. Sc. C-99 (398) 339-346.