Geomagnetic
Parser for getting Earth magnetic field parameters from
Space Weather Prediction Center -
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/.
Description
This is simple pure nodejs data scrapper, that grabs data primary and secondary
Goes Magnetometers
and parses them as array.
Usage
var geomagnetic = require('geomagnetic');
geomagnetic.getPrimary(function(err,data){
if(err) throw err;
console.log(data);
});
geomagnetic.getSecondary(function(err,data){
if(err) throw err;
console.log(data);
});
will return something like:
[
{ timestamp: 1399158180000,
time: Sun May 04 2014 03:03:00 GMT+0400 (MSK),
Hp: 63.7,
He: 75.2,
Hn: -7.73,
total: 98.8,
units: 'nanotesla (nT)'
},
{ timestamp: 1399158240000,
time: Sun May 04 2014 03:04:00 GMT+0400 (MSK),
Hp: 64.4,
He: 76.2,
Hn: -9.04,
total: 100,
units: 'nanotesla (nT)'
},
{ timestamp: 1399158300000,
time: Sun May 04 2014 03:05:00 GMT+0400 (MSK),
Hp: 64.5,
He: 77.1,
Hn: -9.51,
total: 101,
units: 'nanotesla (nT)'
}
]
The data is an array of objects with 4 fields:
timestamp - unix timestamp of moment when current measures are taken
time - javascript object of Date of moment when current measures are taken
Hp - component perpendicular to the satellite orbital plane or parallel to the Earth's spin axis
He - component perpendicular to Hp and directed earthwards
Hn - component perpendicular to both Hp and He, directed eastwards
total - absolute value of magnetic field - sqrt(Hp^2+He^2+Hn^2).
All data have units in nanoteslas - nT.
Note 1: total is probably measured by omni directional solenoid system,
not counted from He, Hp, Hn, so there is <5% discrepance.
Note 2: sometimes there is -100000 values for magnetic fields magnitutes.
This is probably the error in data transfer or a way to show that data was
not properly acquired. So, the user of library can simply negate this values.
Copyright
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Copyright (c) 2013 Anatolij Ostroumov ostroumov095 at gmail dot com
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