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SWS Solar Radio Data from Learmonth (1991 onwards)

Created 07/10/2024

Updated 07/10/2024

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The discrete frequencies Solar Radio data, also known as Radio Interference Monitoring Sets (RIMS), is obtained from Learmonth Solar Observatory, Western Australia.

Equipment: A radio telescope with three parabolic dish antennae to monitor solar radio flux on 8 discrete frequencies in the range 245-15400 MHz. The three parabolic dish antennae feed eight, single frequency, radio telescopes. The largest antenna - 28 feet (8.5 meters) in diameter, is used to monitor 245, 410 and 610 MHz. An 8 feet (2.4 meters) dish is used to monitor the microwave frequencies of 1415, 2695, 4995 and 8800 MHz. A small 3 feet (1 meter) dish monitors the high microwave frequency of 15400 MHz.

Radio telescope outputs are digitised (1 Hz sampling rate), collected by computer and transferred to Sydney SWS head Office WDC for processing and archiving. Observers in Learmonth also send DVDs with RIMS (2 DVD per year) to SWS as backup for the ftp data. To date, four different formats of RIMS data have been archived : SRD (from 2005), APL(1999-2008), LSR(1991-2006) and rdata(2003-2005). All of the above formats are available on the SWS FTP server and SWS website. All of the data files are online, plottable, and downloadable.

Data frequency: Daily file;

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Title SWS Solar Radio Data from Learmonth (1991 onwards)
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/3570c479-1b3d-4682-82c8-f43e6699b736
Contact Point
Bureau of Meteorology
sws_wdc@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 24/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.5, -35.5], [129.0, -35.5], [129.0, -13.5], [112.5, -13.5], [112.5, -35.5]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "SWS Solar Radio Data from Learmonth (1991 onwards)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/sws-solar-radio-data-from-learmonth-1991-onwards

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