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Digitised magnetogram data from the Carrington storm 25th August to 5th September 1859 recorded at Greenwich and Kew Gardens (NERC Grant NE/V002694/1)

This dataset is the most complete digitised magnetic records (as of Nov 2023) of the ten-day period from 25th August to 5th September 1859 encompassing the Carrington storm and its lesser recognised precursor on the 28th August. Based on digital images of the magnetograms from the BGS online archive collection and information from the observatory yearbooks and scientific papers, it is possible to scale the measurements to SI units (degrees of angle and nanoTesla) and extract quasi-minute cadence spot values. The contents of the zip file are various data in ASCII text files plus a readme and example code for plotting the data file; • README.txt - small text file • plot_Carrington1859_paper_plots_with_correlation.py - example code in Python3.7 to create plots • bartels : folder containing digitised KEW data from Bartels (1937) paper • hdz : folder containing extracted KEW and GRW data in single files with time, Horizontal (H), Declination (D) and Vertical (Z) magnetic field components • IAGA2002 : folder with KEW and GRW data in IAGA-2002 formatted files with standard headers • spot_values : GRW spot values taken from the 1859 yearbook tables in csv and txt files

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Date (Creation)
2023-11-13
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608128
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Nagoya University

Keitaro Matsumoto

not available

Originator

Nagoya University

Hisashi Hayakawa

not available

Originator

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

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enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Originator

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Originator

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor

British Geological Survey

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Distributor

British Geological Survey

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not available

Originator

British Geological Survey

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not available

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Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • NGDC Deposited Data

  • Magnetic disturbances

  • Magnetometers

dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
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licenceOGL
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
Greenwich [id=1305759]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS gazetteer 2002 revision

Geographic identifier
Kew [id=1329490]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS gazetteer 2002 revision

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Begin date
1859-08-25
End date
1859-09-05

Reference System Information

No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version

csv

text files in ASCII

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item182995

Data

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.5285/C03EC758-D74D-4267-97FE-1BE409F4C366

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

The magnetogram records from Greenwich and Kew observatories are held by the British Geological Survey (BGS). In total, digital images of about 350,000 magnetograms from all eight UK observatories have been captured and are available online. The scanned magnetograms are accompanied by the yearbooks from each observatory. These provide vital metadata and information on the observatory operations, observing equipment and observation methods required to interpret the magnetograms and other geophysical data. In this record we provide the extracted of magnetic field values from the Greenwich and Kew magnetograms covering the 25th August to 5th September 1859 extreme (Carrington) geomagnetic storms using Engauge Digitize and scaling factors from other papers to convert them to digital values of time and SI units of magnetic field strength.

Metadata

File identifier
0aa84dd8-7fb2-2f27-e063-0937940ae24b XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-23
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608128

 
 

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