Honolulu (HON) Geomagnetic Observatory
Station Id: HON
Location: Ewa Beach, HI
Latitude: 21.32°N
Longitude: 158.00°W
Elevation: 4 meters
Orientation: HDZF
Sections
Background
The Geomagnetism Program established an observatory at Honolulu in 1902, when the Program was part of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and under the leadership of Drs Louis A. Bauer and John A. Fleming. The present observatory site was established in 1960. The observatory is operated for the USGS, under terms of a memorandum of agreement, by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of NOAA.
Customers
- The Space Environment Center of NOAA in Boulder.
- The United States Air Force Weather Agency at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.
- The International Service of Geophysical Indices.
- The Kyoto World Data Center.
- The Honolulu observatory is part of the 210 Magnetic Meridian Array.
- Academic, governmental, and private scientists engaged in pure and applied work.
Photos
The building that houses both the flux-gate and proton magnetometers.
The electronics building at the Honolulu observatory.
The Honolulu Magnetic Observatory site in 1960.
