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      <ResourceName>Alma Ata Magnetometer 1-hr Data in ASCII Flat Table Format</ResourceName>
      <ReleaseDate>2019-05-05T12:34:56Z</ReleaseDate>
      <Description>Alma Ata Magnetometer data, 1-hr time resoluion, in ASCII format. Magnetic Field Vector Element List: DHXYZF. Note that the list of magnetic field elements that appear in the data set may change over the course of time. For instance, many stations have shifted from DHZ to the XYZ representation of the magnetic field. The time history listed below summarizes changes in element content. A description of the WDC Data Exchange Format for CADENCE magnetic field data is included at the end of this data product description.</Description>
      <Acknowledgement>Please acknowledge: Institute of Ionosphere, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakstan for providing the data observations, and the British Geological Survey, World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh for providing access to the data.</Acknowledgement>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Olga.I.Sokolova</PersonID>
        <Role>GeneralContact</Role>
        <Role>DataProducer</Role>
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      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze</PersonID>
        <Role>MetadataContact</Role>
        <Role>TechnicalContact</Role>
</Contact>
      <InformationURL>
        <Name>The Geomagnetic Data Master Catalog at the WDC for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh</Name>
        <URL>http://www.wdc.bgs.ac.uk/catalog/intro.html</URL>
        <Description>Web site for access to magnetometer data hosted by the World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh</Description>
</InformationURL>
      <Association>
        <AssociationID>spase://GBO/NumericalData/Alma.Ata/Magnetometer/PT1H/WDC_FORMAT</AssociationID>
        <AssociationType>DerivedFrom</AssociationType>
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      <PriorID>spase://VMO/NumericalData/Alma.Ata/Magnetometer/PT1H/ASCII_FORMAT</PriorID>
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    <AccessInformation>
      <RepositoryID>spase://SMWG/Repository/UCLA/VMO</RepositoryID>
      <Availability>Online</Availability>
      <AccessRights>Open</AccessRights>
      <AccessURL>
        <Name>The UCLA VMO Data Repository</Name>
        <URL>http://vmo.igpp.ucla.edu/data1/WDC/MAGNETOGRAM/Alma.Ata/PT1H/TXT/</URL>
        <Description>The Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory (VMO) Data Repository hosted by the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).</Description>
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      <Format>Text</Format>
      <Encoding>GZIP</Encoding>
      <DataExtent>
        <Quantity>825696</Quantity>
        <Units>bytes</Units>
        <Per>P1Y</Per>
</DataExtent>
      <Acknowledgement>Please thank the British Geological Survey, World Data Center, Edinburgh for use of data from the WDC Geomagnetic Data Master Catalog. The WDC to ASCII translation was performed at UCLA and the derived ASCII formatted data are available via the UCLA VMO data repository.</Acknowledgement>
</AccessInformation>
    <ProcessingLevel>Calibrated</ProcessingLevel>
    <InstrumentID>spase://SMWG/Instrument/Ground/Alma.Ata/Magnetometer</InstrumentID>
    <MeasurementType>MagneticField</MeasurementType>
    <TemporalDescription>
      <TimeSpan>
        <StartDate>1963-05-01T00:00:00.000</StartDate>
        <StopDate>2010-12-31T23:00:00.000</StopDate>
        <Note>Some data gaps may be present. If a gap is present at the beginning or end of the file, the time span start and stop dates could be inaccurate as they are assigned assuming an absence of such gaps.</Note>
</TimeSpan>
      <Cadence>PT1H</Cadence>
</TemporalDescription>
    <ObservedRegion>Earth.Surface</ObservedRegion>
    <Keyword>ground station</Keyword>
    <Keyword>magnetometer</Keyword>
    <Keyword>magnetic field</Keyword>
    <Keyword>magnetogram</Keyword>
    <Keyword>Alma Ata</Keyword>
    <Keyword>WDC Station Code: AAA</Keyword>
    <Keyword>1-hour</Keyword>
    <Keyword>ASCII Flat File</Keyword>
    <Keyword>ASCII Flat Table</Keyword>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Universal Time</Name>
      <ParameterKey>Time</ParameterKey>
      <Description>Time is expressed using a five column format with the following order: year, month, day, hour, and minute, each stored in interger format. The time columns are the first five columns (1,2,3,4,5) in the flat file.</Description>
      <Cadence>PT1H</Cadence>
      <Structure>
        <Size>5</Size>
        <Description>Universal Time expressed using a 5-column year, month, day, hour, minute representation</Description>
        <Element>
          <Name>Year</Name>
          <Index>1</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_1</ParameterKey>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Month</Name>
          <Index>2</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_2</ParameterKey>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Day</Name>
          <Index>3</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_3</ParameterKey>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Hour</Name>
          <Index>4</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_4</ParameterKey>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Minute</Name>
          <Index>5</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_5</ParameterKey>
</Element>
</Structure>
      <Support>
        <SupportQuantity>Temporal</SupportQuantity>
</Support>
</Parameter>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Magnetic Field DHZ</Name>
      <Description>Alma Ata Magnetic Field in DHZ Coordinates</Description>
      <Cadence>PT1H</Cadence>
      <CoordinateSystem>
        <CoordinateRepresentation>Cylindrical</CoordinateRepresentation>
        <CoordinateSystemName>CGM</CoordinateSystemName>
</CoordinateSystem>
      <Structure>
        <Size>3</Size>
        <Description>Alma Ata Magnetic Field Data in DHZ Coordinates. The DHZ data columns are numbers (6,8,11) in the flat file.</Description>
        <Element>
          <Name>D</Name>
          <Qualifier>DirectionAngle.AzimuthAngle</Qualifier>
          <Index>1</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_6</ParameterKey>
          <Units>Degree</Units>
          <UnitsConversion>2*pi &gt; Radian</UnitsConversion>
          <ValidMin>-180.0</ValidMin>
          <ValidMax>180.0</ValidMax>
          <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>H</Name>
          <Qualifier>Projection.IJ</Qualifier>
          <Index>2</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_8</ParameterKey>
          <Units>nT</Units>
          <UnitsConversion>10^9 &gt;T</UnitsConversion>
          <ValidMin>-70000</ValidMin>
          <ValidMax>70000</ValidMax>
          <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Z</Name>
          <Qualifier>Component.K</Qualifier>
          <Index>3</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_11</ParameterKey>
          <Units>nT</Units>
          <UnitsConversion>10^9 &gt;T</UnitsConversion>
          <ValidMin>-70000</ValidMin>
          <ValidMax>70000</ValidMax>
          <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
</Element>
</Structure>
      <Field>
        <Qualifier>Vector</Qualifier>
        <FieldQuantity>Magnetic</FieldQuantity>
</Field>
</Parameter>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Alma Ata Magnetic Field XYZ</Name>
      <Description>Alma Ata Magnetic Field in XYZ coordinates</Description>
      <Cadence>PT1H</Cadence>
      <CoordinateSystem>
        <CoordinateRepresentation>Cartesian</CoordinateRepresentation>
        <CoordinateSystemName>CGM</CoordinateSystemName>
</CoordinateSystem>
      <Structure>
        <Size>3</Size>
        <Description>Alma Ata Magnetic Field Data in XYZ Coordinates. The XYZ data columns are numbers (9,10,11) in the flat file.</Description>
        <Element>
          <Name>X</Name>
          <Qualifier>Component.I</Qualifier>
          <Index>1</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_9</ParameterKey>
          <Units>nT</Units>
          <UnitsConversion>10^9 &gt;T</UnitsConversion>
          <ValidMin>-70000</ValidMin>
          <ValidMax>70000</ValidMax>
          <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Y</Name>
          <Qualifier>Component.J</Qualifier>
          <Index>2</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_10</ParameterKey>
          <Units>nT</Units>
          <UnitsConversion>10^9 &gt;T</UnitsConversion>
          <ValidMin>-70000</ValidMin>
          <ValidMax>70000</ValidMax>
          <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
</Element>
        <Element>
          <Name>Z</Name>
          <Qualifier>Component.K</Qualifier>
          <Index>3</Index>
          <ParameterKey>Column_11</ParameterKey>
          <Units>nT</Units>
          <UnitsConversion>10^9 &gt;T</UnitsConversion>
          <ValidMin>-70000</ValidMin>
          <ValidMax>70000</ValidMax>
          <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
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</Structure>
      <Field>
        <Qualifier>Vector</Qualifier>
        <FieldQuantity>Magnetic</FieldQuantity>
</Field>
</Parameter>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Magnetic Field Inclination</Name>
      <ParameterKey>Column_7</ParameterKey>
      <Description>Alma Ata Magnetic Field Vector Inclination</Description>
      <Cadence>PT1H</Cadence>
      <Units>Degree</Units>
      <UnitsConversion>2*pi &gt; Radian</UnitsConversion>
      <ValidMin>-180.0</ValidMin>
      <ValidMax>180.0</ValidMax>
      <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
      <Field>
        <Qualifier>DirectionAngle.ElevationAngle</Qualifier>
        <FieldQuantity>Magnetic</FieldQuantity>
</Field>
</Parameter>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Magnetic Field Magnitude</Name>
      <ParameterKey>Column_12</ParameterKey>
      <Description>Alma Ata Magnetic Field Vector Magnitude</Description>
      <Cadence>PT1H</Cadence>
      <Units>nT</Units>
      <UnitsConversion>10^9 &gt;T</UnitsConversion>
      <ValidMin>0</ValidMin>
      <ValidMax>70000</ValidMax>
      <FillValue>-99999.999</FillValue>
      <Field>
        <Qualifier>Magnitude</Qualifier>
        <FieldQuantity>Magnetic</FieldQuantity>
</Field>
</Parameter>
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