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April, 2024
SuperMAG Steering committee has opening for 2 new members.
April, 2024
1-min data released for 2023.
April, 2024
A list on minor corrections made.
March, 2024
SuperMAG now uses APEX magnetic coordinates.
January, 2024
SuperMAG exceeds 4000 registered users.
November, 2023
Release of complete updated SuperMAG dataset.
October, 2023
Entire LISN dataset released.
August, 2023
LISN, Low Latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network (lisn.igp.gob.pe) and SuperMAG collaborate.
August, 2023
Large update to the entire ground magnetometer data holdings released.
August, 2023
OMNI, solar wind, data updated.
June, 2023
Data from 2022 and first half of 2023 have been released (This includes the exciting April storm!)
April, 2023
188 peer reviewed papers published in 2022!
March, 2023
2022 data to be released in early April.
August, 2022
2022 1 minute data now available (January 1 - July 10).
August, 2022
Large downloads of gridded solutions now available.
July, 2022
SuperMAG R Client by Ethan Hu released.
April, 2022
186 peer reviewed papers published in 2021!
April, 2022
Released an update of all large download pre-packed files.
March, 2022
SuperMAG reaches 3000 registered users.
February, 2022
1-min data released for 2021.
January, 2022
1-sec data released for 1998-2020.
June, 2021
MagStar is a new SuperMAG collaborator.
June, 2021
Dr. Andrew Gerrard is elected chair of the steering committee.
June, 2021
SuperMAG Python & Matlab Clients released.
June, 2021
A few reported bugs in solar wind data, polar plots and data have been fixed.
April, 2021
103 peer reviewed papers published in 2020!
March, 2021
SuperMAG IDL Client released
March, 2021
2020 data, indices and derived products are released.
January, 2021
New "One-Station-All-Years" magnetometer data download option added
January, 2021
Download bugs resolved
January, 2021
Redesign of website to account for download confusion
January, 2021
Magnetic coordinates time interpolated by year
January, 2021
Four additional substorm lists released
January, 2021
SuperMAG reaches 2500 registered users
December, 2020
SuperMAG is now HTTPS
December, 2020
OMNI data updated.
June, 2020
New "All Stations" magnetometer data download option added.
June, 2020
Derived ULF parameters for PC2-PC5 bands released for 2012-2017.
June, 2020
1-sec data released for 2012-2017.
June, 2020
Extensive update to website to accommodate 1-sec data and derived ULF parameters.
April, 2020
SuperMAG and NASA Drive Center CGS collaborates.
January, 2020
2019 data, indices and derived products are released.
December, 2019
SuperMAG reached 2000 registered users.
December, 2019
SuperMAG indices for all years have been extensively cleaned.
July, 2019
SuperMAG expands to include 1-sec data for the years 2012-2013.
July, 2019
300 Billion calculated ULF parameters for Pc2-Pc5 bands are released.
July, 2019
A few updates to web interface.
May, 2019
Major improvement to SuperMAG data plotting for improved user friendliness and speed.
May, 2019
Large update to data holdings released.
May, 2019
Download patch implemented to prevent excessive downloads using scripts.
March, 2019
AACGM equal area gridding is available in Polar Plots.
February, 2019
2018 data from 241 stations are released.
January, 2019
World’s most popular station list is released!
November, 2018
A few bugs fixed.
November, 2018
OMNI data updated.
November, 2018
Data holdings updated.
October, 2018
Contributors webpages updated.
September, 2018
New Polar Plots vector capability.
September, 2018
Data holdings updated.
September, 2018
Fixed a few bugs.
September, 2018
Revised SuperMAG Steering Committee formed.
September, 2018
New SuperMAG Inventory page.
July, 2018
SuperMAG reaches 1500 registered users.
April, 2018
SuperMAG reaches 1400 registered users.
April, 2018
2017 ULF data for 250 stations are released.
March, 2018
2017 data from 250 stations are released.
March, 2018
Major improvement to SuperMAG backend is finalized ensuring future web service support.
March, 2018
A number of issues with the SuperMAG website were recently reported and subsequently fixed.
Thank you to all of our users who reported the errors!
February, 2018
102 peer reviewed publications in 2017!
January, 2018
The entire ULF database have been reprocessed.
November, 2017
SuperMAG reaches 1300 registered users.
August, 2017
Large update to data holdings and additional error correction.
August, 2017
Entire MAGDAS data archive is released on SuperMAG.
July, 2017
Gridded solutions can be downloaded as netCDF.
June, 2017
SuperMAG reaches 1200 registered users.
June, 2017
MAGDAS is new collaborator.
January, 2017
66 peer reviewed papers published in 2016!
January, 2017
SuperMAG reaches 1100 registered users.
January, 2017
> 130,000 downloads in 2016.
October, 2016
SuperMAG web site moves to JHU/APL.
New server: SuperMAG.jhuapl.edu.
August, 2016
Data holdings updated.
August, 2016
Update to station list.
August, 2016
Coordinate system bug fixed.
June, 2016
SuperMAG Reaches 1000 users.
May, 2016
Bugs fixed in polar plots.
April, 2016
Global uniform gridding released.
March, 2016
SuperMAG reaches 900 registered users.
March, 2016
New plotting software released
March, 2016
2015 data released.
March, 2015
Solar Wind data for 2014-2015 released.
January, 2016
More than 50,000 downloads in 2015.
December, 2015
Geoscience Australia is new SuperMAG collaborator
December, 2015
Bureau Central de Magnetisme Terrestreis is new SuperMAG collaborator
October, 2015
RBSP satellite footprint now available on polar plot page.
September, 2015
Global ULF maps now available for all years.
July, 2015
AMBER is new SuperMAG collaborator.
July, 2015
SuperMAG reaches 800 registered users!
May, 2015
Large update to data-holdings.
April, 2015
Custom movie and indices bugs corrected.
January, 2015
29 peer reviewed papers published in 2014!
January, 2015
SuperMAG reaches 700 registered users.
January, 2015
22,000 downloads in 2014
December, 2014
Global ULF tools included in Polar Plots and Movies
October, 2014
New sunlit and darkness auroral electrojet indices available.
October, 2014
Several solar wind parameters added.
October, 2014
Bugs fixed.
September, 2014
Meridian chain selection tool.
September, 2014
Interface updates.
September, 2014
Comprehensive error correction to entire dataset.
August, 2014
EMMA is new SuperMAG collaborator.
August, 2014
IUGONET and SuperMAG become collaborators
August, 2014
Large update to data-holdings
May, 2014
SuperMAG reaches 600 registered users!
May, 2014
SEGMA is new SuperMAG collaborator.
March, 2014
Several minor improvements to interface.
March, 2014
GFZ is new SuperMAG collaborator.
February, 2014
1995 indices error corrected.
January, 2014
More than 19,000 downloads in 2013!
January, 2014
25 peer reviewed papers published in 2013!
December, 2013
A few minor bugs fixed.
November, 2013
SuperMAG launches a new streamlined website.
November, 2013
SuperMAG reaches 500 registered users.
November, 2013
Large update to data holdings.
November, 2013
Published paper: Cresswell-Moorcock, K., C. J. Rodger, A. Kero, A. B. Collier, M. A. Clilverd, I. Häggström, and T. Pitkänen (2013), A reexamination of latitudinal limits of substorm-produced energetic electron precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., (in press).
October, 2013
New updated station list.
October, 2013
Published paper: Lui, A. T. Y. (2013), Cross-tail current evolution during substorm dipolarization, Ann. Geophys., 31, 1131-1142, doi:10.5194/angeo-31-1131-2013.
October, 2013
Published paper: Zou, S.,M. B. Moldwin, M. J. Nicolls, A. J. Ridley, A. J. Coster, E. Yizengaw, L. R. Lyons, and E. F. Donovan (2013), Electrodynamics of the high-latitude trough: Its relationship with convection flows and field-aligned currents, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, 2565-2572, doi:10.1002/jgra.50120.
September, 2013
Published paper: Newell, P. T., J. W. Gjerloev, and E. J. Mitchell (2013), Space climate implications from substorm frequency, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, doi:10.1002/jgra.50597.
September, 2013
Published paper: Singh, A. K., R. Rawat, and B. M. Pathan (2013), On the UT and seasonal variations of the standard and SuperMAG auroral electrojet indices, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, doi:10.1002/jgra.50488.
August, 2013
Published paper: Noah, M. A. and W. J. Burke (3013), Sawtooth-substorm connections: A closer look, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, Issue 8, pages 5136-5148, doi:10.1002/jgra.50440.
August, 2013
Published paper: Wei, L. H., N. Homeier, and J. L. Gannon (2013), Surface electric fields for North America during historical geomagnetic storms, Space Weather, 11, 451-462, doi:10.1002/swe.20073.
July, 2013
Published paper: Ohtani, S., T. Uozumi, H. Kawano, A. Yoshikawa, H. Utada, T. Nagatsuma, and K. Yumoto (2013), The response of the dayside equatorial electrojet to step-like changes of IMF Bz, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, doi:10.1002/jgra.50318.
July, 2013
New 'Collaborators Only' FTP capabilities.
June, 2013
New 'Polar Plots' routine.
April, 2013
New Rules-of-the-road.
May, 2013
Release of 'Collaborators only' webpages with statistics and more info.
May, 2013
Mr. Brage Foerland is named SuperMAG lead programmer. Mr. Robin Barnes becomes head of software development.
January, 2013
SuperMAG reaches 400 registered users.
September, 2012
New Publication: Gjerloev, J. W. (2012), The SuperMAG data processing technique, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A09213, doi:10.1029/2012JA017683.
August, 2012
Gjerloev returns to work at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory:
Dr. Jesper W. Gjerloev
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, Maryland 20723
Phone(+1) 240-228-5410
E-mail: Jesper.Gjerloev@jhuapl.edu
May, 2012
SuperMAG SMR indices (partial ring current indices) are produced.
May, 2012
University of Tromsø joins SuperMAG.
March, 2012
Polar VIS Earth camera images are ingested.
February, 2012
Users can now create their own movies.
February, 2012
The entire site is redesigned for increased security.
January, 2012
SuperMAG reaches 300 registered users.
January, 2012
SuperMAG color tables changed for clarity and to help color blind users.
January, 2012
SuperMAG APL server experiences serious cyber atttack.
January, 2012
ENIGMA joins SuperMA
November, 2011
New mirror of SuperMAG at supermag.uib.no
November, 2011
Brage Førland joins the SuperMAG team.
October, 2011
Some recent user registrations lost due to a denial of service attack. Please re-register if your login is lost. No other data was compromised in the attack.
September, 2011
ESA PRODEX and the Norwegian Space Center funds SuperMAG.
August, 2011
Gjerloev begins tenure as Professor at Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway.
July, 2011
SuperMAG derived SME indices (equivalent to AE) are available.
July, 2011
Dr. Shin Ohtani joins the SuperMAG team as the APL PI.
June, 2011
Data holdings vastly expanded to cover 1980-2010.
May, 2011
IZMIRAN joins SuperMAG.
May, 2011
Registration system error corrected.
April, 2011
SuperMAG Steering Committee formed.
April, 2011
Downloadable station information file.
March, 2011
Website updated.
March, 2011
Mr. Matthew Potter joins the SuperMAG team.
January, 2011
ACE Solar wind data holdings updated.
January, 2011
THEMIS ground mag data included (2004-2010).
December, 2010
British Geological Survey joins SuperMAG.
September, 2010
Collaborator feedback further developed.
August, 2010
SuperMAG reaches 200 registered users.
August, 2010
Completed numerous updates and additions to website.
August, 2010
Sixth consecutive month serving >7500 plots/month.
August, 2010
Line plot colors changed.
August, 2010
9 years of BAS data included.
August, 2010
IMF data included.
July, 2010
Data download capability expanded.
May, 2010
Robin Barnes wins award for SuperMAG software.
May, 2010
Collaborators feedback inplemented (password protected).
May, 2010
Data from 2003 to 2007 are included.
April, 2010
A comprehensive set of tools for polar plots is released.
April, 2010
The entire IMAGE WIC auroral image data base included.
April, 2010
Data from 2002 and 2003 are included.
March, 2010
SuperMag Website redesigned
February, 2010
A user-friendly inventory tool is released.
January, 2010
SuperMag receives funding from NSF to expand data holdings.
December, 2009
SuperMAG and Danish Space Center collaborates.
December, 2009
SuperMAG and ULTIMA collaborates.
November, 2009
SuperMAG receives funding from NASA to include images.
October, 2009
Two errors with Polar Plots have been corrected.
September, 2009
Updated data holdings: A long list of stations added; additional cleaning of entire dataset.
August, 2009
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) joins the SuperMAG family.
June 14-24, 2009
APL suspends all internet access.
May 28, 2009
SuperMAG reaches 100 registered users.
April 29, 2009
User can select cadence of polar plots.
April, 2009
Removing daily variations is now optional.
April, 2009
Data can be downloaded.
January 15-22, 2009
Server offline.
January 8, 2009
SuperMAG goes live with 5 years of data and a list of user-friendly tools.

The purpose of SuperMAG is to help scientists, teachers, students and the general public have easy access to measurements of the Earth's magnetic field.

SuperMAG is funded by:

National Science foundation

SuperMAG is a worldwide collection of geomagnetic ground station data and provides innovative products and services. All raw data is sourced from institutes around the world operating magnetometers and SuperMAG thanks these institutes and their funding bodies. SuperMAG data are not equivalent to the original data.

supermag@listserv.jhuapl.edu

Principal investigator: Jesper W. Gjerloev

Website design and development: Brage Førland, Rob Barnes, Matt Potter and Tove Dehn

Web service development: Rob Barnes and Sandy Antunes