• Italian Antarctic Data Center
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Talos Dome geomagnetic remote station dataset

An automatic geomagnetic station for monitoring the Earth’s magnetic field variations has been installed in December 2020 at Talos Dome, a remote site on the Antarctic Plateau, about 300 km away from the permanent geomagnetic observatory at Mario Zucchelli Station (MZS). Designed and assembled at the laboratory of electronics of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome, this autonomous station is formed by a vector magnetometer specifically manufactured by Lviv Institute (Ukraine) for very low temperatures and a low-power system supplied by batteries charged by wind generator and solar panel. Data, sampled at 1 Hz, are locally stored and can be downloaded once a year during the Antarctic summer expeditions. The goal was to integrate observatory data for better monitoring the geomagnetic field from an uncovered Antarctic area. In fact, it is well known that the distribution of geomagnetic observatories strongly favors the northern hemisphere and each new instrumental installation in Antarctica should be considered as a useful attempt to balance the geomagnetic monitoring in the two hemispheres. The achieved goal was to obtain a long data series, keeping the station working even during the austral winter when the temperature can reach −60°C; we recorded 4 years of data.

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Date (Creation)
2020-12-02
Identifier
https://antarcticdatacenter.INGV.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fb76df45-1654-46c0-b827-b4252769fe0f
Purpose

Data from the new station, jointly with data from permanent ob-servatories, contribute to improve the analysis of the magnetospheric dynamics and the iono-sphere-magnetosphere coupling. Talos Dome, together with the Italian geomagnetic observatory at Mario Zucchelli Station and New Zealand geomagnetic observatory at Scott Base, constitutes a network along the 80°S geomagnetic parallel, which is interesting for studying the longitudinal propagation of geomagnetic signals of external origin.

Status
Completed
principalInvestigator
  INGV - Lucia Santarelli
custodian
  INGV - Paolo Bagiacchi
pointOfContact
  INGV - Giovanni Benedetti
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

  • Talos Dome

GCMD - Science Keywords

  • GEOMAGNETISM

  • GEOMAGNETIC STORM

  • SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS

Keywords
  • geomagnetic observations in Antarctica; ULF geomagnetic fluctuations; stand-alone installation; remote harsh site; 80°S geomagnetic parallel; low temperature

PNRA project

  • PNRA16_00204

Research Organization

  • INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Environmental monitoring facilities

GCMD - Providers

  • IT/PNRA

Use limitation
Creative Commons o altre - DEFINIRE LA LICENZA (QUELLA GENERALE PER IL PNRA: CC-BY 4.0)
Unique resource identifier
XXXVI
Association Type
Source
Initiative Type
Campaign
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Denominator
1
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2020-12-02
End date
2024-12-26 Now
Unique resource identifier
WGS84
Distribution format
  • ASCII ( 1 )

Protocol

http://geomag.rm.ingv.it/index.php?op=view_download_sourcedata&system=TLD1

Name

PNRA16_00204

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass
Yes
File identifier
2e97cc93-15ae-47d3-a48e-5716488422f0 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-02-25T08:00:23
Metadata standard name

ISO 19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

pointOfContact
  INGV - Paolo Bagiacchi
 
 

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overview

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GCMD - Providers
IT/PNRA
GCMD - Science Keywords
GEOMAGNETIC STORM GEOMAGNETISM SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Environmental monitoring facilities
PNRA project
PNRA16_00204
Research Organization
INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
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