Antarctic space weather data managed by IPS radio and space services of Australia

Abstract

Ionospheric Prediction Services (IPS) has an extensive collection of data fromAntarctic field instruments,the oldestbeing ionospheric recordings fromthe 1950s.Itssensor network (IPSNET) spans Australasia andAntarcticacollectinginformation on space weather. In Antarctica, sensors include ionosondes, magnetometers, riometers, and cosmic ray detectors. The(mostly) real-timedata from these sensors flow into the IPS World Data Centre at Sydney, where the majority are available online toclients worldwide. When combined with other IPSNET-station data,they provide the basis forAntarctic space weather reports.This paper summarizes the datasets collected from Antarctica and their data management within IPS.