Casleo and Swider fair weather atmospheric electric field / potential gradient during Forbush decreases 2008-2018

This dataset provides the time series of 1-hour mean values of fair weather atmospheric electric field (or PG - electric potential gradient) data from the atmospheric electricity stations at Casleo (Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito, Argentina, short name: CAS) and Swider (Stanislaw Kalinowski Geophysical Observatory of the Institute of Geophysics PAS, Świder, Poland, short name: SWI) during Forbush decreases of the cosmic rays (FD) from the period 2008-2018. The list of events is provided as a part of the dataset. The PG time series (-/+ 7 days from the FD onset day, at least 30% of relevant data present) were calculated from a revised series of observatory measurements corrected for technical errors and with non fair weather values excluded. Missing values in the dataset refer to bad weather periods or lack of PG data. The series also list corresponding 1-hour values (PG_mean) from monthly (CAS) or seasonal (SWI) mean curves of the diurnal variation of fair weather PG. According to the atmospheric electricity convention the sign of the fair weather electric field agrees with the physics convention sign of the electrical potential gradient. The unit is V/m. The measurement set-up and criteria for fair weather selection at each station are described in Tacza et al. 2022, DOI: 10.1029/2021SW002944.

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Additional Info

Field Value
GCMD keywords
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/Earth%20Science/0af72e0e-52a5-4695-9eaf-d6fbb7991039?gtm_keyword=ATMOSPHERIC%20ELECTRICITY&gtm_scheme=Earth%20Science
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY > ELECTRIC FIELD URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/Earth%20Science/41f27172-14f6-4940-9b7b-f3d4db69e0c6?gtm_keyword=ELECTRIC%20FIELD&gtm_scheme=Earth%20Science
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ACTIVITY URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/Earth%20Science/2e83362e-d8f8-4bca-83fd-bae360ebe94b?gtm_keyword=SOLAR%20ACTIVITY&gtm_scheme=Earth%20Science
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ACTIVITY > COSMIC RAYS URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/Earth%20Science/e06822d8-b640-4d75-ac37-33ab3cc5e765?gtm_keyword=COSMIC%20RAYS&gtm_scheme=Earth%20Science
Dataset Center https://dataportal.igf.edu.pl/
Maintainer Data Steward
Dataset PI
  • PI name: José Carlos Tacza Anaya PI email: josect1986foo(at)gmail.com PI ORCID: 0000-0002-2625-7803 PI Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences PI Department: Department of Atmospheric Physics
Dataset Owner
  • Owner name: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Owner PIC (Participant Identification Code): 996625337 Owner address: Ksiecia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw, Poland
  • Owner name: Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics, Presbyterian Mackenzie University Owner address: Rua da Consolação 896, prédio 45, 7º andar, 01302-907 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Dataset status Complete
Activity type
  • in-situ measurements
  • long-term monitoring
Access constraint Open
Embargo
Dataset modified 2022-08-24
Metadata created 2022-07-12
Quality statement Quality controlled by manual inspection
Quality Editor
  • Editor name: Anna Odzimek Editor email: aodzimekfoo(at)igf.edu.pl Editor ORCID: 0000-0003-3490-5257 Editor Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Spatial distribution { "coordinates": [ [ 290.705, -31.799 ], [ 21.2375, 52.1159 ] ], "type": "MultiPoint" }
Region Argentina, Poland
Start time 2008-01-01 01:00 CET
End time 2019-01-01 00:59 CET
Dataset citation Tacza, J., Odzimek, A., Raulin, J-P., Kubicki, M., 2022. Casleo and Swider fair weather atmospheric electric potential gradient during Forbush decreases 2008-2018. IG PAS Data Portal.
Dataset DOI 10.25171/instgeoph_pas_igdata_pg_solareffects_2022_003
External resource
Publication
  • Publication title: Tacza, J., Odzimek, A., Tueros Cuadros, E., Raulin, J.-P., Kubicki, M., Fernandez, G., Marun, A., 2022. Investigating effects of solar proton events and Forbush decreases on ground-level potential gradient recorded at middle and low latitudes and different altitudes. Space Weather, 20, e2021SW002944. Publication DOI: 10.1029/2021SW002944
Project
  • Project title: Multi-station analysis of solar effects in the ground-level atmospheric electric field Project ID: PPN/ULM/2019/1/00328/U/00001 Project financing institution: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange