GETG meeting Brussels, BE, November 2007

Status of GE-relevant activities at DMI 

Jurgen Watermann, Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)

Evolution of the naming of our group (last 10 years)

Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division

Atmosphere Space Research Division

Geomagnetism and Space Physics Program

Division for Remote Sensing and Geomagnetism

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Division for Remote Sensing and Geomagnetism

Major activity: Remote sensing

Minor activity: Geomagnetismprimary activity: data collection, processing, validationprobably negligible: use of the observations for research

No activity: Space physics

North Sea and surrounding land masses with observatories resp. calibrated variometers

Greenland Magnetometers

Dotted grid geographic latitude and longitude

Dashed lines corrected geomagnetic latitude (epoch 2000.0)

Dotted line best-fit great circle (west coast stations)

Blue circles DMI magnetometer stations

Blue triangles DMI geomagnetic observatories

Blue Diamond Sondrestrom Research Facility

Full circles data are transmitted to DMI in near real timeregular letters (every 10-30 min, site depending)

Full circles data from preceding day are transmitteditalic letters to DMI via low-rate telephone modem

Open circles data are stored locally and sent to DMIitalic letters via snail mail (up to several months delay)

Future directions

• Establish a calibrated variometer station on Faroe

• Develop further the commercial sector (sale of instruments, data, derived products)

• Increase external funding in geomagnetism (through international cooperative projects)