# Explanatory tables for the list of Ground-Based Observing Stations

## Instrument Codes

Code | Meaning
--- | ---
AS | Spectrometer, Auroral
ASC | All-Sky Camera, Analog
ASCD | All-Sky Camera, Digital
ASP | Photometer, Azimuth Scanning
ATV | Auroral TV Camera
BLS | bls ???
CHF | Coherent HF Radar
CUHF | Coherent UHF Radar
CVHF | Coherent VHF Radar
D | Doppler Sounder
DA | da ???
E | e ???
ELF | ELF Receiver
ES | Ebert Spectrometer
FPI | Fabry Perot Interferometer
I | Ionosonde, Analog
ID | Ionosonde, Digital
IPS | Interplanetary Scintillation Array
IS | Incoherent Scatter Radar
LF-HF | LF, MF and HF Receiver
M | Magnetometer
MF | MF Radar
MI | Michelson Interferometer
MIS | Spectrograph, Meridian scanning
MP | Magnetometer, Pulsation
MSP | Photometer, Meridian Scanning
NM | Neutron Monitor
OS | Spectrometer, Optical
P | Photometer
PI | Photometer, Imaging
PRE | Partial Reflection Experiment
R | Riometer
RI | Riometer, Imaging
RR | Rocket Range
SC | Satellite Scintillation Detector
SI | Spectrometer, Imaging
SIR | Scanning Infrared Radiometer
SM | Spectrometer, Microwave
SS | Solar Seismology Detector
ST | Solar Telescope
SUV | Spectrometer, Ultra-violet
TEC | Total Electron Content Measurements
VLF | VLF Receiver

(c) | campaign use only
(p) | planned at time of most recent information
(s) | instrument no longer operating (shut)
(ro) | receiver only

## Chain, Instrument and Data Centre Acronyms

Acronym | Group
--- | ---
210E | Longitude 210 East Magnetometer Network
AGONET | Antarctic Geospace Observatory NETwork
ALIS | Auroral Large Imaging System
CANOPUS | Canadian Auroral Network for the Open Program Unified Study
CO | Contracted Oval index magnetometer stations
COSCAT | COSCAT
CUTLASS | Co-operative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System
DASI | Digital All Sky Imager
DIMNET | DIxon meridian Magnetometer NETwork
EISCAT | European Incoherent Scatter
EO | Expanded Oval index magnetometer stations
FASCC | Finnish All-Sky Camera Chain
Greenland | Greenland Magnetometer Array
IMAGE | International Monitor for Auroral Geomagnetic Effects
IRIS | Imaging Riometer for Ionospheric Studies
Intermagnet | INTERnational MAGNETometer database
MACCS | Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies
MAGIC | Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap
MEASURE | Magnetometers along the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard for Undergraduate Research and Education Program
MIRACLE | Magnetometers - Ionospheric Radars - Allsky Cameras Large Experiment
NGDC | National Geophysical Data Centre
PENGUIN | Polar Experiment Network for Geophysical Upper-atmosphere INvestigations
SAMNET | Sub-Auroral Magnetometer NETwork
SAPPHIRE | SAPPHIRE
SIRN | Scandinavian Imaging Riometer Network
SO | Standard Oval index magnetometer stations
STARE | Scandinavian Twin Auroral Radar Experiment
SuperDARN | Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
TOMO | TOMOgraphy receiver network
ULCAR | University of Lowell Center for Atmospheric Research
WDC-A | World Data Center A for STP
WDC-C1 | World Data Centre C1 for STP

Station | Synonym
--- | ---
Andoya | Andenes
Dumont d'Urville | Terre Adelie
Fredricksburg | Fredericksburg
Great Whale Riv. | Kuujjuarrapik, Post-de-La-Baleine
Iqaluit | Frobisher B, Frobisher Bay
Ittoqqortoormiit | Scoresbysund
Kangerlussuaq | Sondre Stromfjord
Maniitsoq | Sukkertoppen
Martin de Vivies | Amsterdam Island
Nuuk | Godthaab
Paamiut | Frederikshaab
Port Alfred | Crozet Archipelago
Port-aux-Francais | Kerguelen Islands
Puerto Rico | Ramey
Qaanaaq | Thule
Qeqertarsuaq | Godhavn
Tasiilaq | Ammassalik
Terre Adelie | Dumont d'Urville
Uummannaq | Umanaq
Vernadsky | Argentine Islands, Faraday

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