About Hpo index
The half-hourly Hp30 and hourly Hp60 were developed at GFZ during in the Horizon 2020-project SWAMI and are described in the publication Yamazaki et al. (2022). These time resolutions are an improvement compared to the three-hourly Kp. Together with their linear versions ap30 and ap60 they are collectively known as the Hpo indices or Hpo index. Here, H refers to the (half-)hourly, p refers to planetary and o refers to open-ended. The latter signifies that Hpo, in contrast to Kp, is not limited to a maximum value of 9. This allows a more nuanced description of the strongest geomagnetic events.
Hpo is provided in near real-time as nowast values. These are preliminary values that are based on all available data and might change ones more data is available for their computation. Hpo goes back to 1995.
The Hpo indices are calculated from the geomagnetic recordings of the following 13 geomagnetic observatories:
geomagnetic Observatory | code | operating institute | country | since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyrewell | EYR | GNS Science | New Zealand | 1978 |
| Canberra | CNB | Geoscience Australia | Australia | 1981 |
| Uppsala | UPS | Geological Survey of Sweden | Sweden | 2004 |
| Brorfelde | BFE | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 1984 |
| Wingst | WNG | Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum | Germany | 1938 |
| Niemegk | NGK | Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum | Germany | 1988 |
| Lerwick | LER | British Geological Survey | United Kingdom | 1932 |
| Eskdalemuir | ESK | British Geological Survey | United Kingdom | 1932 |
| Hartland | HAD | British Geological Survey | United Kingdom | 1957 |
| Ottawa | OTT | Natural Resources Canada | Canada | 1969 |
| Meanoook | MEA | Natural Resources Canada | Canada | 1932 |
| Fredricksberg | FRD | United States Geological Survey | United States | 1957 |
| Sitka | SIT | United States Geological Survey | United States | 1932 |
We thank the operating institutes for contributing with their data.