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Tromsø Geophysical Observatory
University of Tromsø,  Norway
Hopen
Hopen is a small island of the Svalbard archipelago in the western Barents sea.  The magnetometer is installed in 1988 at the meteorological station there and maintained in co-operation with the Meteorological Institute of Norway.

Hopen

    Magnetometer calibrations inside the tent at Hopen.  The two boxes contains the variometer sensor and the fluxgate electronics.
 

Instrumentation:
  • Magnetometer: FG90C  (our design)
  • Sensor: Triaxial fluxgate FS85  (our design)
  • Logger is a Pentium PC running Linux,  Redhat OS.
  • GPS time adjustment.
  • Data are sendt every 1-2 months on a zip disk by mail.
Data information:

Hopen archive data coverage
 

Other:

Last update 28.feb.2005
Responsible editor: Truls Lynne Hansen
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