News and Updates
- November, 2023
Fast cloud based download
of data from 2022 and first half of 2023 is now available.
- 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.
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