gov.noaa.ngdc.stp.ionosonde:G10145 eng; USA utf8 dataset Justin Mabie DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Space and Terrestrial Weather Specialist (303) 497-6135 (303) 497-6513 325 Broadway, Mail Code E/GC4 Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA Justin.Mabie@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2015-09-18 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Ionosonde Stations 1958-01-01 publication NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information publisher DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce originator http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov http Ionosonde Data Information, search capabilities and data downloads information https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/IONO http Ionosonde Data Archive Ionosonde Data information Ionograms are recorded tracings of reflected high frequency radio pulses generated by an ionosonde. Unique relationships exist between the sounding frequency and the ionization densities which can reflect it. As the sounder sweeps from lower to higher frequencies, the signal rises above the noise of commercial radio sources and records the return signal reflected from the different layers of the ionosphere. These echoes form characteristic patterns of "traces" that comprise the ionogram. Radio pulses travel more slowly within the ionosphere than in free space, therefore, the apparent or "virtual" height is recorded instead of a true height. For frequencies approaching the level of maximum plasma frequency in a layer, the virtual height tends to infinity, because the pulse must travel a finite distance at effectively zero speed. The frequencies at which this occurs are called the critical frequencies. Characteristic values of virtual heights (designated as h'E, h'F, and h'F2, etc.) and critical frequencies (designated as foE, foF1, and foF2, etc.) of each layer are scaled, manually or by computer, from these ionograms. Typically, an ionosonde station obtains one ionogram recording every 15 minutes. When the scaling is done manually only the hourly recordings are routinely reduced to numerical data. Modern ionosondes with computer-driven automatic scaling procedures routinely scale all the ionograms recorded. The resulting numerical values, along with the original ionograms and station reports, are archived at five World Data Centers (WDCs) for Ionosphere. The ionosphere is divided into four broad regions called D,E, F, and topside. These regions may be further divided into several regularly occurring layers, such as F1 or F2.D Region: The region between about 75 and 95km above the Earth in which the relatively weak) ionization is mainly responsible for absorption of high-frequency radio waves. E Region: The region between about 95 and 150km above the Earth that marks the height of the regular daytime E layer. Other subdivisions isolating separate layers of irregular occurrence within this region are also labeled with an E prefix, such as the thick layer, E2, and a highly variable thin layer, Sporadic E. Ions in this region are mainly O2+. F Region: The region above about 150km in which the important reflecting layer, F2, is found. Other layers within this region are also described using the prefix F, such as a temperate-latitude regular stratification, F1, and a low-latitude, semi-regular stratification, F1.5. Ions in the lower part of the F layer are mainly NO+ and are predominantly O+ in the upper part. The F layer is the region of primary interest for radio communications. To produce Ionograms underDevelopment Justin Mabie DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Space and Terrestrial Weather Specialist (303) 497-6135 (303) 497-6513 325 Broadway, Mail Code E/GC4 Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA Justin.Mabie@noaa.gov pointOfContact daily Sun-Earth >Interactions >Solar Energetic Particle Properties >Particle Density >Electron Density height Profile Spectral/Engineering >Radar >Radar Reflectivity theme NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords ICSU-WDS > International Council for Science - World Data System project Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Project Keywords 2020-01-09 publication 9.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Data and Information System https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. information custodian Vertical Location > Ionosphere place NASA/GCMD Location Keywords DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2020-01-09 publication 9.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Data and Information System https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. information custodian While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. otherRestrictions Use Constraints: None otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None eng; USA geoscientificInformation -180 180 -90 90 1958-01-01 Every Ionosonde station has it's own metadata record in Spidr and also in the Ionosonde Record Set here in the NMMR via ftp: SAO, EDP GIF, PNG, MMM, 16C, RSF, SDF, GRM, DFT and SKY via Spidr: ASCII, XML Matlab Justin Mabie DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Space and Terrestrial Weather Specialist (303) 497-6135 (303) 497-6513 325 Broadway, Mail Code E/GC4 Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA Justin.Mabie@noaa.gov pointOfContact None https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/solar/solardataservices.html http Solar Data Solar Home page information ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/ionosonde ftp Index of STP/Ionosphere ftp characteristics of Ionospheric data download http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/ionosonde repository NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015. 2015-04-22T00:00:00 annually This metadata was automatically generated from the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-012-2002) using the 2012-08-08 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform. Translated from FGDC 2012-10-10T11:08:33.458-06:00 This record was automatically modified on 2015-09-18 to include references to NCEI where applicable. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Metadata Specialist editor Justin Mabie DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Space and Terrestrial Weather Specialist (303) 497-6135 (303) 497-6513 325 Broadway, Mail Code E/GC4 Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA Justin.Mabie@noaa.gov pointOfContact