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
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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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Talos Dome
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GCMD - Science Keywords
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GEOMAGNETISM
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GEOMAGNETIC STORM
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SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS
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geomagnetic observations in Antarctica; ULF geomagnetic fluctuations; stand-alone installation; remote harsh site; 80°S geomagnetic parallel; low temperature
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PNRA project
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PNRA16_00204
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Research Organization
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INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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GCMD - Providers
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IT/PNRA
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- 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
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 2020-12-02
- End date
- 2024-12-26 Now
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS84
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PNRA16_00204
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- Dataset
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- Yes
- File identifier
- 2e97cc93-15ae-47d3-a48e-5716488422f0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-25T08:00:23
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
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Spatial extent
Provided by
Italian Antarctic Data Center