Data of magnetic storms and term-day observations from the Prague-Clementinum observatory (1839-1849)

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We provide in digital form unique data observed at Prague-Clementinum in years 1839-1849. The data were obtained by digitising and processing the original old records published in the yearbooks of this historical observatory. The data contain two categories of high cadence observations of magnetic declination and horizontal intensity. The first of these categories captures 73 magnetic storms with their magnitude being of at least a moderate level. The second category is the dense observations during the days that had been agreed for joint measurements by the observatories organised in the Göttingen Magnetic Union (GMU), these measurements being known as term-day observations. Whereas four terms per year were set by GMU, many observatories agreed to carry out additional observations in the eight remaining months. The term-day observations also continued being performed for several years after the end of the GMU activities in 1841. Data of 120 term-days from January 1840 to December 1849 are published. The observations started at 10 p.m. of Göttingen Mean Time and lasted 24 hours. The interval between observations was 5 minutes (in April, June and July 1842 exceptionally 6 minutes). All time data were transformed into UT, based on the longitude of the Göttingen observatory, which was 9.950°. The time shift is thus 39'48''. The date in the file name of magnetic storm indicates the start day of the event, whereas the date in the term-day file name indicates the second day which involves substantial part of the observations (22 out of 24 hours).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936921
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-439-2021
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.141
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.936921
Provenance
Creator Hejda, Pavel ORCID logo; Revallo, Miloš; Valach, Fridrich ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Slovak Academy of Sciences https://doi.org/10.13039/100010783 Crossref Funder ID 2/0085/21 Variability of geomagnetic field in various time scales from the point of view of physical causes
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 193 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (14.416 LON, 50.086 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1839-09-03T04:20:12Z
Temporal Coverage End 1849-12-20T21:20:12Z