New international service of geomagnetic indices' web site
Résumé
The International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) is in charge of the elaboration and dissemination of IAGA endorsed geomagnetic indices and lists of remarkable magnetic events.
This is possible thanks to reports of magnetic observatories distributed all over the planet and thanks to work done by the 6 ISGI-Collaborating-Institutes (Ebro Observatori, Spain; GFZ, Potsdam, Germany; WDC, Kyoto, Japan; AARI, St Petersburg, Russian Federation; DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; EOST, Strasbourg, France).
The official ISGI Web portal, which is hosted by ISGI headquarters at EOST, makes available online reference values of IAGA endorsed data. A new ISGI Web site has been designed in order to meet the actual requirements towards users. This Web site contains:
- pages with synthetic information, and in particular main references and characteristics of IAGA endorsed geomagnetic indices and lists of events;
- downloading and plotting tools;
- a “playground area” that contains new sections dedicated to dissemination of indices that are not yet endorsed by IAGA but met expectations of the users (for testing purposes).