UK Solar System Data Centre (UKSSDC)
STP Facilities supported by STFC
UK Solar System Data Centre (link opens in a new window) , hosted at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, is an extension of the facilities of the World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics encompassing the whole Solar System Science field. The Centre will work to ensure that the UK Solar System Science community derives greater benefits from the emerging Grid technologies to facilitate access to both local and distributed (UK and international) datasets. The Data Centre will act to bind the substantial Solar System Science data resources of the UK into a more cohesive unit. Most of the current WDC activities will remain as part of the UKSSDC. In the international arena the Data Centre will continue to play a full part in the World Data Centre system, with reciprocal data exchange and free availability of those data which are in the public domain.
The Centre at RAL collects and holds a wide range of data from the discipline of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, including a very extensive collection of ionospheric data ranging from the early 1930s to the present day. The Centre provides a variety of services via the World Wide Web with most datasets being regularly updated.
The services of the RAL Centre are available to all scientists and engineers without restriction and are usually provided free of charge. The Centre reserves the right to charge for the costs of copying and postage, and will do so for very large requests.
The World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is part of the worldwide system of geophysical data centres (link opens in a new window), coordinated by the Panel on World Data Centres established by the International Council of Scientific Unions (link opens in a new window)
Facility Description
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Facility
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Description
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Name of the facility?
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The UK Solar System Data Centre (UKSSDC)
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What and where is it?
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Rutherford Appleton laboratory.
The UKSSDC provides online STP database services.
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What data sets does it contain?
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Ionospheric:
Ionosonde scaled parameters:
~180 stations digitally
~320 stations on paper, fiche, etc.
IF2/IG ionospheric sunspot equivalence indices (monthly)
Ionogram images (digital, film, paper)
Geomagnetic:
AE (1-min, 2.5-min and hourly)
Dst (1-hr, daily)
aa (3-hourly, daily)
am (3-hourly, daily)
an (daily)
as (daily)
Polar Cap Index
- Thule (15 min)
- Vostok (15 min)
Ap (3-hourly, daily)
Kp (3-hourly, daily)
Cp C9 (daily)
Magnetometer data (~20 stations)
Auroral Oval Indicators
Solar:
Sunspot Number (daily, monthly, yearly)
10.7cm Solar Radio Flux (daily, monthly)
Sunspot Group Reports
Daily sunspot summaries
Solar Flare Events
Solar Flare Indices
Solar Flare Reports
SMM total solar irradiance
NIMBUS-7 total solar irradiance
H-alpha Solar Flare Patrol reports
Coronal index of Solar Activity (FeXIV emissions)
Daily Solar Lyman-alpha emissions
Interplanetary:
Interplanetary Magnetic Field
- IMP-J/8 (15 sec, 5 min, hourly)
- ISEE-3 (5 min)
Interplanetary Plasma
- IMP-J (2 min, 5 min, hourly)
GOES data
- particle fluxes (1 min, 5 min, hourly)
- magnetometer (1 min, 5 min, hourly)
- X-ray fluxes (1 min, 5 min, hourly)
AMPTE data
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Are the data accessible on the www?
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Summary plots are available (link opens in a new window)
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What is the www address?
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UK Solar System Data Centre website: http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk (link opens in a new window)
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How do you access data not available on the WWW?
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Request to UKSSDC staff (e-mail, telephone, mail)
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What other facilities does UKSSDC provide?
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MSIS-86 model
MSIS-90E model
Active maps of known ground-based STP instruments
Daily and weekly reports from SESC, Boulder
- Solar Daily Forecast
- Solar Geophysical Activity Summary
- Solar Geophysical Report
Daily SIDC-Brussels sunspot report
Monthly SIDC-Brussels sunspot report
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How are these accessed?
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Via WWW, e-mail, fax or mail.
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Who should I contact for further information?
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Principle investigator: Mr Matthew Wild
Ms Sarah James
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Page last updated: 24 March 2011
by Andy Mckinna
