Data

INTERMAGNET data are available as magnetograms or as digital data files. Policies and procedures for making this data available are the responsibility of each GIN.

Preliminary data can be downloaded via your browser. These data are generally available for the day previous to the current one. For some of the more remoter observatories data are not available for several days.

Definitive data in INTERMAGNET CD-ROM/DVD binary format or INTERMAGNET spreadsheet format (IAGA2002) can be downloaded via your browser. These data are available for those observatories who have submitted it for inclusion in the next CD-ROM/DVD and for all CD-ROM/DVDs previously published. Older definitive data are also available on the approporiate CD-ROM/DVD.

Ftp access to INTERMAGNET data is available on request. To request this service please send an e-mail to: webmaster@geolab.nrcan.gc.ca.

Plots can be generated for all INTERMAGNET data available through this web site.

Conditions of Use

The member institutes of INTERMAGNET invest considerable resources to operate their magnetic observatories to INTERMAGNET standards. It is important that the institutes producing the data have a measure of the scientific return on their investment. Accordingly, we have the following Conditions of Use.

CONDITIONS OF USE FOR DATA PROVIDED THROUGH INTERMAGNET

The data made available through INTERMAGNET are provided for your use and are not for commercial use or sale or distribution to third parties without the written permission of the institute operating the observatory. Publications making use of the data should include an acknowledgment statement of the form given below. A citation reference should be sent to the INTERMAGNET Secretary (secretary@intermagnet.org) for inclusion in a publications list on the INTERMAGNET website.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF DATA FROM OBSERVATORIES PARTICIPATING IN INTERMAGNET

We offer two acknowledgement templates. The first is for cases where data from many observatories have been used and it is not practical to list them all, or each of their operating institutes. The second is for cases where research results have been produced using a smaller set of observatories.

Suggested Acknowledgement Text (template 1)

The results presented in this paper rely on data collected at magnetic observatories. We thank the national institutes that support them and INTERMAGNET for promoting high standards of magnetic observatory practice. (www.intermagnet.org)

Suggested Acknowledgement Text (template 2)

The results presented in this paper rely on the data collected at <observatory name>. We thank <institute name>, for supporting its operation and INTERMAGNET for promoting high standards of magnetic observatory practice (www.intermagnet.org).