Date ( Creation )

1868

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480122

Maintenance and update frequency

daily Daily

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Geomagnetism

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Use constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

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

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type

textTable Text, table

Metadata language

English English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GB

 

Date ( Revision )

2009

Geographic identifier

UK [id=139300]

 

Date ( Creation )

1979

Geographic identifier

UKM

 

Date ( Revision )

2009

N

S

E

W

Supplemental Information

Abinger & Hartland - all available values. Not available digitally - Greenwich 1841-1867, Lerwich 1923-1953 and Eskdalemuir 1911-1953. 5 Uk Locations.

Distribution format

• DELIMITED ASCII - Yearly data files ( ASII) or user defined. ()

OnLine resource

http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/data/magnetic_indices/k_indices.html  

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Statement

Hand-scaled until 1990, automatically derived using computer algorithm from 1991 onward. Since 1983 the raw unfiltered data have been retrieved automatically from Hartland, Lerwick and Eskdalemuir via Internet connections to the BGS office in Edinburgh in near real time.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

9df8df52-d795-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98   XML

Metadata language

English English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2021-10-22

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480122