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Tromsø Geophysical Observatory
University of Tromsø,  Norway
Karmøy
Karmøy is an island and a municipality at the south-west corner of Norway. Our station is placed  in a desolated area in the souther part of the island, 20 km south of the town Haugesund.
The site was set up December 2003.  Operation takes place in co-operation with the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bergen.

Karmoy

Bjørn Ove Husøy measuring declination at Karmøy with the Carl Zeiss 010B.
 
Instrumentation:
  • Magnetometer: FG90 (our design)
  • Sensor: Triaxial fluxgate FS-98 (our design)
  • Logger is a PC running Linux,  Redhat 9.0 OS.
  • GPS time adjustment.
  • Near realtime data are transferred every 4 minute.
  • Remote control and data retrieval by GPRS connection.
Data information:

Karmøy archive data coverage
 

Other:

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