Ocean Hemisphere Project
Superconducting Gravimeter Data


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Under the support of OHP project, an international gravity observation network is operating. This network consists of the six observation sites of Bandung in Indonesia, Canberra in Australia, Esashi and Matsushiro in Japan, Ny-Alesund in Norway and Syowa in Antarctica. At each site, the contentious gravity observation is carried out using a superconducting gravimeter (SG). In this web-page, mainly the data sampled at the 1-s interval are stored. Attached table gives some information on the station coordinates, namely, the type of SG, its scale factor, the sampling interval and others for each observation site. There is a possibility of revision of the scale factor of each SG due to newly calibration. The new calibration value will be announced on this web-page for users. The following institutes are responsible to operate the respective site; National Astronomical Observatory for Esashi, Canberra and Ny-Alesund, Kyoto University for Bandung, and National Institute for Polar Research for Syowa Station. More detailed information on the data at each site will be supplied on request to respective institutes. The names of contact persons are; Dr. Yoichi Fukuda (fukuda@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp) of Kyoto University, Dr. Tadahiro Sato (tsato@miz.nao.ac.jp) of National Astronomical Observatory, and Prof. Kazuo Shibuya (shibuya@nipr.ac.jp).
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 Data format(except Matsushiro):

  The format of the data is (9X,F10.6,A1,F9.3,A1) in Fortran style
(see sample below).   From left side, time (UT or JST), gravity data
(voltage), remark1, pressure data (hPa) and remark2 are given.
Remarks "i" and "b" denote the interpolated data and no observations
respectively.

SG000101    GGP1     Pressure
00:00:00  -1.549357   973.163
00:00:01  -1.549376   973.158
00:00:02  -1.549391   973.166
00:00:03  -1.549450i  973.164i
00:00:04  -1.549510   973.163
00:00:05  -1.549561   973.168
00:00:06  -1.549627   973.163
00:00:07   0.000000b    0.000b
00:00:08  -1.549742   973.161



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 Data format(Matsushiro):

The file contains digital readings of atmospheric pressure and gravity
through the GGP1 filter for every 1 second.

There are two files for each day. The files are in text format.
The time is UT.

How to read the data

	long secs; /* number of seconds since either 00:00:00 or 12:00:00 */ 
	long lpres, lgrav; /* integer data */
	double pres, grav; /* float data */
	FILE *fp; /* descriptor to input file */

	fscanf(fp, "%4lx%5lx%7lx", &secs, &lpres, &lgrav);
	if (lgrav & 0x08000000)
		lgrav |= 0xf0000000;
	pres = (double) lpres / 1000.0; /* pressure in hPa */
	grav = (double) lgrav / 10000000.0; /* gravity in V */

For other information, contact imanishi@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp.




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Station: Bandung

Station  Instrument         T008
         Location           Bandung, Indonesia
         Latitude (N)        -6.896
         Longitude (E)      107.632
         Height (m)           713
         StartOps           16 Dec 1997
         StartRecord        19 Dec 1997

Gravity  Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -52.23    (1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
         FilterCornFreq(mHz)   61.5   (GGP1 filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)     100   (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)   0.034 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision(hPa)         0.1
         Calibration            1.0

Data     DataICET            97/12-00/04

Time System                     UT




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Station: Canberra

Station  Instrument         C031
         Location           Mt. Stromlo, Canberra, Australia
         Latitude (N)        -35.3206
         Longitude (E)       149.0077
         Height (m)            763
         StartOps           27 Jan 1997
         StartRecord        27 Jan 1997

Gravity  Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -76.280   (1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
         FilterCornFreq(mHz)   20     (TIDE filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)     -     (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)   0.156 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (hPa)        0.1
         Calibration            1.0

Data     DataICET               -

Time System                     UT




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Station: Esashi

Station  Instrument         T007
         Location           Mt. Abara, Esashi, Japan
         Latitude (N)         39.1511  (WGS84)
         Longitude (E)       141.3318  (  "  )
         Height (m)            434     (  "  )
            "                  393 (above mean sea level)
         StartOps            2 Feb 1988
         StartRecord        22 Oct 1997

  < Period  1997/01/01 - 1997/10/11 >

Gravity  Sampling (s)           2
         Recording (s)          2
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -56.334   (1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
         FilterCornFreq(mHz)   20     (TIDE filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)     -     (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)   0.156 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)           2
         Recording (s)          2
         Precision (hPa)        0.1
         Calibration            1.0

Time System                     JST (UT+9.0 hour)


  < Period  1997/10/22 -  after >

Gravity  Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -56.334   (1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
         FilterCornFreq(mHz)   61.3   (GGP1 filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)     100   (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)   0.034 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (hPa)        0.1
         Calibration            1.0

Data     DataICET           97/07-98/04

Time System                     UT




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Station: Matsushiro

Station  Instrument             T011
Location                        Matsushiro Seismological Observatory
Latitude (N)                     36.5439
Longitude (E)                   138.2032
Height (m)                      451.1
StartOps                        01 Dec 1995
StartRecord                     06 Jan 1995

Gravity  Sampling (s)             1
Recording (s)                     1
Precision (mV)                    0.0001
Calibration(micro Gal/V)         92.879 +/- 0.036  (1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
Filter                          GGP1 filter

Pressure Sampling (s)             1
Recording (s)                     1
Precision (hPa)                   0.001
Calibration                       1.0

Time System                     UT




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Station: Ny-Alesund

Station  Instrument         CO39
         Location           Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Norway
         Latitude (N)         78.93061
         Longitude (E)        11.86717
         Height (m)             43
         StartOps           19 Sep 1999
         StartRecord        19 Sep 1999

Gravity  Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -70.830 (temporal, 1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
         FilterCornFreq(mHz)    61.3   (GGP1 filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)      100   (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)    0.034 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (hPa)        0.1
         Calibration            0.1

Data     DataICET               -

Time System                      UT




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Station: Syowa

Station  Instrument         T016
         Location           Syowa Station, Antarctic
         Latitude (N)        -69.006735
         Longitude (E)        39.585694
         Height (m)           42.567
         StartOps           22 Mar 1993
         StartRecord        22 Mar 1993


  < Period  1993/08/01 -  1999/05/31 >

         Sampling (s)           2
         Recording (s)          2
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -57.965   (1micro Gal=10^-8 ms^-2)
         FilterCornFreq (mHz)   20.0  (TIDE filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)      -    (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)   0.156 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)          2
         Recording (s)         2
         Precision (hPa)       0.1
         Calibration           1.0

Data     DataICET          97/07-99/05

Time System                     UT


  < Period  1999/06/01 -  after >

Gravity  Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (mV)         0.01
         Calibration(micro Gal/V)  -57.965 *(about 1.0020 ?)
         FilterCornFreq(mHz)   61.3   (GGP1 filter)
         NyquistCutOff (dB)     100   (    "      )
         PhaseShift (deg/cpd)   0.034 (    "      )

Pressure Sampling (s)           1
         Recording (s)          1
         Precision (hPa)        0.1
         Calibration            1.0

Time System                     UT