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Space-weather HMI Active Region Patch (SHARP)

Metadata Updated: January 16, 2026

SHARP stands for Space-weather HMI Active Region Patch. A SHARP is a DRMS series that contains (1) various space-weather quantities calculated from the photospheric vector magnetogram data and stored as FITS header keywords, and (2) 31 data segments (described in detail below), including each component of the vector magnetic field, the line-of-sight magnetic field, continuum intensity, doppler velocity, error maps and bitmaps. The data segments are not full-disk; rather, they are partial-disk, automatically-identified active region patches. SHARPs are calculated every 12 minutes. Often, there is more than one active region on the solar disk at any given time. Thus, SHARPs are indexed by two prime keys: time, T_REC, and HMI Active Region Patch Number, HARPNUM.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date August 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date January 16, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date January 16, 2026
Publisher SDO HMI-AIA JSOC at Stanford
Maintainer
Identifier https://doi.org/10.48322/m86t-bh26
Data Last Modified 2026-01-13
Category Heliophysics
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.48322/m86t-bh26
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 375bbd706db832969f4c9ba93010ce22fa0530ca1047af589b45d9850a0ff6e9
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 2010-05-01/2010-05-01

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