Data Download

The following sections describe data and software available for download.

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Data Files

Iondata - Australian scaled ionospheric data before 2014.
(small files < 200 KB - see README, data format or select data to display.)
Ionospheric Medians - FoF2 and M3000 median data before 2014.
(small files < 200 KB - see README, data format or select data to display.)
Automatically scaled ionospheric data, including 5 minutes and checked hourly foF2 and monthly foF2 median data after 2014.
(small files < 30 KB - see README for median data, data formats, or to display 5 minutes/hourly data or foF2 median data.)
Ionogram Data - Raw and clean ionogram data.
(daily zip files < 1000 KB - see README or ionogram data format for more details.)
Ionosonde measurements v2.10 - Dr T Damboldt has kindly provided a data viewer and consolidated median data set for download. It is available from the download site. Please read the HELP file prior to downloading and running this self extracting archive. This data set is also available as global_medians_*.zip and global_medians_*.tar.gz from the download site Be aware that you use it at your own risk.

Magnetometer - magnetometer data from Australian and Antarctic stations.
(large - approx 3MB day files - see README for details or select data to display)
Cosmic Ray Data - from Kingston and Mawson.
(small files < 100 KB - see README for details or select data to display)
Riometer Data - from Casey, Davis, Macquarie Island and Mawson.
(small files < 50 KB - see README for details or select data to display)

Spectrograph - data from the Culgoora and Learmonth spectrographs.
(large - approx 30MB day files - see README for details or select data to display)
Solar Images - from the Culgoora and Learmonth Solar Observatory.
(large - approx 2Mb zipped hour files - see README for details)
Solar Radio Flux Data - from the Learmonth Solar Observatory.
(different data files from 10Kb to 2Mb files - see README for details or select data to display)

GNSS Data - RINEX-format GPS data.
(daily zip files < 600KB - see README for description of format)
Scintillation Data (ISM) - GPS Ionospheric Scintillation Monitor (ISM) data.
(daily zip s4 data files about 300KB - see README for a description of the format)

Win-32 Ionoscale - A software tool developed by Space Weather Services for scaling and browsing SWS clean format ionograms. It is used at SWS as the primary scaling tool. IonoScale (IonoScale.zip) was developed to run on Unix systems, but has been ported to run on the MS Windows OS.
Ionogram Viewer - An SWS Clean Ionogram Viewer (wdc_cid.jar and README) are available for download. This is a stand alone version of the Java applet for viewing and printing SWS clean format ionograms used on this website for realtime ionogram display. It also provides a simple scaling facility.
Generic Ionogram Viewer - An SWS developed generic Ionogram Viewer is available for download. This Java application has been developed as a simple multi format viewer for ionograms stored in the WDC. The application and documentaton are contained in a zip file "JionView.jar".

Solar Image Viewer - A Windows Culgoora H-Alpha image viewer is available for download (wdc_ib.zip), see README for details. After installation you need to download zipped data files to the wdc_ib installation folder under the /Program Files/ on your PC.
Spectrograph Viewer - Two Windows spectrograph viewers are available for download. The spec.zip (include README) is for Culgoora data and SRSDisplay.exe for Learmonth srs data. After download and installation of a special software, you need to download the raw spectrograph data files from the right station to your PC.