OMNI/OMNI2
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1 Summary
- This data set is described in http://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/omni2_doc.html
- From http://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/omni2_doc.html
OMNI 2 was created in 2003 as a successor to the "old OMNI" data set first created at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) in the mid-1970's and maintained and extended thereafter by NSSDC. The OMNI data set is an hourly resolution multi-source data set now spanning the period November, 1963 (IMP 1 launch) to May, 2003. The primary data of OMNI are near-Earth solar wind magnetic field and plasma parameters. Also included are 1973-2001 energetic particle data from IMP 8 and sunspot number and geomagnetic (Dst, Kp, C9) activity indices. AE indices have replaced C9 indices in OMNI 2, and 1967-1972 IMP 4 and 5 particle data have been added.
2 Notes
To improve access speed, data are derived from cache of original data source on December 1, 2008. See Notes#Versioning for more information about versioning and caching.
On April 29, 2009, eight new geomagnetic activity index variables were added to the OMNI2 1-min and 5-min. These will be included in the next update.
3 Acknowledgment
- Cite: From ftp://nssdcftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacecraft_data/omni/omni2.txt: Use of these data in publications should be accompanied at minimum by acknowledgements of the National Space Science Data Center.
- Data set contact: See metadata
4 Data
4.1 Merged Plots and Files
- All data merged into a single file (but no metadata besides variable names): ftp://virbo.org/OMNI/OMNI2/merged Important: Notes on reading merged files
- Notes on timestamps.
