US Ground-based magnetometer arrays

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US Ground Magnetometer Board

This wiki page and related ground magnetometer board meetings are part of a community driven effort to (1) review operations/status/performance of all US-funded ground magnetometer arrays, (2) discuss priorities for future ground magnetometer locations in consultation with the wider community including USGS/ULTIMA/NSF, (3) transition towards a Class-II facility/DASI operations model as recommended by the 2015-2016 NSF Geospace Portfolio Review, (4) facilitate the production and dissemination of high level data products that support scientific investigations, spacecraft missions, modeling efforts, and space weather forecasts. For more information about the current state and future of ground magnetometer networks in support of space weather monitoring and research, see this article in Space Weather.

Current Ground Magnetometer Board Members:

  • Peter Chi
  • Mark Engebretson, (former chair)
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • Jesper Gjerloev
  • Michael Hartinger, (current chair, mdhartin@vt.edu)
  • Hyomin Kim
  • Gang Lu
  • Josh Rigler
  • Michelle Salzano
  • Howard Singer
  • Endawoke Yizengaw

Former Ground Magnetometer Board Members:

  • Carol Finn
  • Efthyia Zesta


US-Sponsored Ground-Based Magnetometer Arrays and Programs*

Array Location Instruments Manufacturer No. of Locations
AAL-PIP Antarctica Fluxgate Lviv Centre ISR 6
AAL-PIP Antarctica Induction Coil UNH 4
AMBER Africa Fluxgate UCLA 7
AMBER South America Fluxgate UCLA 2
AMBER East Asia Fluxgate UCLA 4
Falcon Continental US Fluxgate UCLA 11
GIMA Alaska Fluxgate Narod 9
Jicamarca South America Fluxgate UCLA 2
LISN South America Fluxgate Custom/Jicamarca 6
MACCS Arctic Canada Fluxgate Narod 8
McMAC Continental US & Mexico Fluxgate UCLA 9
MEASURE Continental US Fluxgate UCLA 6
SAMBA South America & Antarctica Fluxgate UCLA 12
THEMIS Continental US & Canada Fluxgate UCLA 24
US Geological Survey US & Territories Fluxgate Narod 11
NJIT / AGO Antarctica Fluxgate Bell Labs 7
NJIT / AGO Antarctica Induction Coil Tohoku University 5
MICA Antarctica Induction Coil UNH 5
MICA Arctic Canada Induction Coil UNH 4
MICA Svalbard Induction Coil UNH 4
  • Some locations listed here have instruments that are not currently operating.

Ground Magnetometer Data

SuperMAG

USGS Geomagnetism Program

INTERMAGNET

Spherical Elementary Currents from James Weygand

THEMIS

NASA CDAWeb

UNH Magnetic Induction Coil Array (MICA)

IUGONET

2019 GEM workshop meeting

The ground magnetometer advisory board was formed in 2016 as a community driven effort to (1) review operations/status/performance of all US-funded ground magnetometer arrays, (2) discuss priorities for future ground magnetometer locations in consultation with the wider community including USGS/ULTIMA/NSF, (3) transition towards a Class-II facility/DASI operations model as recommended by the 2015-2016 NSF Geospace Portfolio Review, (4) facilitate the production and dissemination of high level data products that support scientific investigations, spacecraft missions, modeling efforts, and space weather forecasts.

We invite the GEM community to attend our meeting on Monday, June 24 at 1:30 PM, where we’ll discuss updates on all the above items. Later this year, we’ll add new members to the advisory board who either operate ground magnetometers or use magnetometer data to support their scientific investigations and/or space weather monitoring efforts. If you’re interested in learning more about this opportunity, please attend this GEM meeting or contact Mike Hartinger (mdhartin@vt.edu).

Monday, 24 June, 1:30 PM, Location: Santa Fe

  • Mike Hartinger - Updates on ground magnetometer advisory board activities
  • Mark Engebretson - Summary of information gathering report
  • Lisa Winter - NSF updates
  • Hyomin Kim - DRUM/DASI updates and future plans, discussion
  • Jesper Gjerloev - SuperMAG updates
  • Josh Rigler - USGS updates, updates from other magnetometer arrays

2019 mini-GEM workshop meeting

Sunday, 8 December, 1200-1330, Location: Oregon Room


2020 Virtual Discussion: Ground Magnetometer Measurements for Heliophysics Research and Space Weather Monitoring

Friday, 7 August, 1500-1630 EDT - sign up for the Zoom meeting here: https://forms.gle/M9GHcsNJ3vE2sckC9

  • Syau-Yun Hsieh – SMILE mission ground-based support
  • Enrico Camporeale – Long-term continuous magnetometer data for geomagnetic activity prediction using machine learning
  • Slava Merkin – Model validation using ground magnetometers
  • Magnetometer Network Updates, Confirmed speakers: Jesper Gjerloev (SuperMAG), Michelle Salzano (MICA), Josh Rigler (USGS), Jennifer Gannon (MagStar), Chuck Smith (Space Weather Underground), Mark Engebretson (MACCS), Mark Moldwin (New Ground Mag and TEC/GPS system), Endawoke Yizengaw (iMAGS), Hyomin Kim (AGO), Mike Hartinger (AALPIP)