Funding Provided by: LWS Program Space Weather Program NOAA NGDC

We are extremely grateful to all those who provided us data for this project. Specifically, we received data from the following institutions: The Canadian Space Agency provided most of the data in the lower latitude Canadian sector. This data was provided for years 1997-2003. I now have 36 CDs of Canopus magnetometer data! The IMAGE magnetometer netword is a joint enterprise between a number of European Institutes, and provides very dense coverage over the entire European contitnent. They provide yearly CDs of magnetometer data. Also, at their web site, you can download all of the stations 2 days at a time. This works well in a pinch. The MACCS project is a joint venture between the Augsburg College Physics Department and Boston University's Astronomy Department to study natural interactions in the Earth's space environment. Since 1991, faculty and students at the two colleges have worked together to build, calibrate and install magnetometers and computer-based recording systems at eight villages at the northern end of Hudson Bay, on Baffin Island and on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Their web page has data through 2003, and you have to request data after this. The 210 Magnetic Meridian observations are being conducted by Kyushu University and the database and archives are being maintained by STEL, Nagoya University. They have almost all of their data available on-line, through an FTP site. This is the easiest data in the world to get. The Greenland Coastal Stations are operated by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). In order to get the data, you have to commit to working with a person there. I received the data as part of our collaboration with DMI, through the trading of Bob Clauer's MAGIC station data for their coastal station data. This is typically very high quality data, but normal people can't get to it easily. The Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap (MAGIC) magnetometers are operated by the University of Michigan's Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Science Team. Data is available through their web page. The INTERMAGNET programme exists to establish a global network of cooperating digital magnetic observatories, adopting modern standard specifications for measuring and recording equipment, in order to facilitate data exchanges and the production of geomagnetic products in close to real time. They provide data on CDs once a year, but the data for 2003 is not available yet. The web interface is good for downloading a single station for a single day.