Past News Items
A list of previous items listed on the latest news section on the Geomagnetism front page:
2025
- Paper - The geomagnetic and geoelectric response to the May 2024 geomagnetic storm in the United Kingdom (2025)
- Geomagnetic storm update - 17th April 2025
2024
- Release of 14th generation International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) (December 2024)
- Release of World Magnetic Model (WMM) 2025 by BGS and NOAA-NCEI (December 2024)
- Geomagnetic storm update - 11th October 2024
- Geomagnetic storm forecast - 9th October 2024
- Geomagnetic storm update - 7th October 2024
- Geomagnetic storm forecast - 3rd October 2024
- Geomagnetic storm update - 17th September 2024
- Geomagnetic storm alert - 12th September 2024
- Geomagnetic storm alert - 17th August 2024
- Blog - A-roaring display of the Northern lights
- Geomagnetic storm update - 13th May 2024
- Geomagnetic storm alert - 10th May 2024
- Paper - Digitized continuous magnetic recordings for the August/September 1859 storms from London, UK (2024)
- Paper - Modeling and observations of the effects of the Alfven velocity profile on the Ionospheric Alfven Resonator (2024)
- Paper - Modelling electrified railway signalling misoperations during extreme space weather events in the UK (2024)
- Paper - Validating a UK Geomagnetically Induced Current Model Using Differential Magnetometer Measurements (2024)
- Webinar: Understanding the magnetic field
- Blog: Will 2024 be the Year of the Aurora?
2023
- Report - State of the Geomagnetic Field, Dec 2023
- Geomagnetic storm predicted! Increased chance of aurora on 16th - 17th December
- Geomagnetic storm in progress - 1 Dec!
- Geomagnetic data now available through the EPOS portal
- Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert! Increased chance of aurora on 2nd - 3rd September
- Paper - The predictive power of magnetospheric models for estimating ground magnetic field variation in the United Kingdom (2023)
- Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert! Increased chance of aurora on 11th - 12th May
- Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert! Increased chance of aurora on 10th - 12th May
- Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert! Increased chance of aurora on 7th May
- Alert! Increased chance of viewing aurora tonight - 24th April
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 19-21 April
- Vacancy - IT Specialist - Geomagnetism & Space Weather - Apply by 16th April 2023
- Vacancy - Geomagnetism Support Scientist - Apply by 2nd April 2023
- Geomagnetic Activity Alert Update, 1st Mar 2023
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Scientist - Apply by 19th February 2023
- Geomagnetic Activity Alert 27-Feb-2023
- Geomagnetic Activity Alert Update 20-Feb-2023
- Geomagnetic Activity Alert 16-Feb-2023
- Geomagnetic Activity Alert 13-Feb-2023
2022
- Report - State of the Geomagnetic Field, Dec 2022
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic & Space Weather IT Specialist - Apply by 8th January 2023
- Live SAGE variometer station data available!
- Paper - On the considerations of using near real time data for space weather hazard forecasting (2022)
- Paper - Digitizing UK analogue magnetogram records from large geomagnetic storms of the past two centuries (2022)
- Paper - Geomagnetically induced current model in New Zealand across multiple disturbances: Validation and extension to non-monitored transformers (2022)
- Paper - Probabilistic hazard assessment: application to geomagnetic activity (2022)
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from 29th April 2022
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from 14th April 2022
- Alert update! - 31st March 2022
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from 31st March 2022
- Alert update! 14th March 2022
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from 13/14th March 2022
- New paper - estimating magnetic uncertainies for the IGRF
- Report - State of the Geomagnetic Field, Dec 2021
- Alert update! Geomagnetic storm on the 3rd of February
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 1st February
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 15th January
2021
- Report - State of the Geomagnetic Field, Dec 2021
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 3rd November
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 30th October
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 11th October
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 30th Septemober/1st October
- Blog - The Great North Run
- Virtual Talk - Geomagnetism at BGS
- Rock the Mic podcast on Geomagnetism
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora from the 19th March
- Vacancy - Geomagnetism Scientist - Apply by 28th February
2020
- Paper - Geomagnetically induced current model validation from New Zealand's South Island (2020)
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora on the 9-10th December
- Phd opportunities - Apply by Jan 2021
- Vacancy - Geomagnetism Scientist - Apply by 15th November
- Paper - Automatic detection of Ionospheric Alfvén Resonances in magnetic spectrograms using U-net (2020)
- Chapter - Geomagnetic field, global pattern (2020)
- Presentation - Denoising Swarm Geomagnetic Virtual Observatories using principal component analysis (2020)
- Poster - The new WMM2020 and IGRF-13 models, and a retrospective analysis of IGRF secular variation (2020)
- Presentation - Geomagnetic Virtual Observatories: Global monitoring of geomagnetic secular variation with Swarm data (2020)
- Alert! - increased chance of viewing aurora on the 25th October
- Vacancy - Geomagnetism Scientist - Apply by 15th November
- Alert! 28th September - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Blog - Geomagnetism Capability new funding
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic and Space Weather IT Specialist - Apply by 16th August
- Geomagnetism Review 2019
- Report - The US/UK World Magnetic Model for 2020-2025 (2020)
- Paper - A global climatological model of extreme geomagnetic field fluctuations (2020)
- Paper - Modelling the Earth's geomagnetic environment on Cray machines using PETSc and SLEPc (2020)
- Vacancies - Geophysical Scientist (2 posts) - Apply by 21st June
- Vacancy - Hartland Magnetic Observatory Site Manager - Apply by 14th June
- Paper - Differential Magnetometer Measurements of Geomagnetically Induced Currents in a Complex High Voltage Network (2020)
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic IT Specialist - Apply by 12th April
- Geomagnetism Review 2018
2019
- New Model - World Magnetic Model 2020
- New Model - IGRF 13th Generation
- Blog - Keeping up with the North Pole(s)
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Electronics Engineer - Apply by 10th Jan 2020
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Instrumentation Engineer - Apply by 10th Jan 2020
- Alert! 24th - 25th October - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Alert! 27th - 29th September - increased chance of viewing aurora
- News - Compasses to point true north for first time in 360 years
- Alert! 31st Aug to 1st Sept - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Blog - When Zero Meets Zero
- Eskdalemuir Observatory celebrates world status
- MagQuest - Phase 1 winners announced
- Paper - Is the Madden-Julian Oscillation reliably detectable in Schumann Resonances? (2019)
- Blog - Big Data for little fields, the new BGGM 2019
- New research - Geomagnetic Virtual Observatories
- Paper - Modeling geoelectric fields in Ireland and the UK for space weather applications. (2019)
- Paper - A risk assessment framework for the socio-economic impacts of electricity transmission infrastructure failure due to space weather: an application to the United Kingdom. (2019)
- Article - A magnetic prediction comes true. (2019)
- Report - Out-of-Cycle Update of the US/UK World Magnetic Model for 2015-2020. (2019)
- Alert! 14th May - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic IT Specialist - Apply by 19th May
- New webpage for our services for Geomagnetically Induced Currents
- MagQuest innovation challenge - Enter by 16th May
- Vacancy - Geomagnetism Scientist - Apply by 10th March
- Podcast - Guardian's science weekly "Where on earth is North?"
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Data Processor - Apply by 17th Feb
- Blog - Updating the World Magnetic Model: from the centre of the Earth, straight to your pocket
2018
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Scientist - Apply by 9th Jan
- Poster - Evaluation and Comparison of Geomagnetic Activity Forecasts. (2018)
- Paper - Building a Raspberry Pi school magnetometer network in the UK. (2018)
- Geomagnetism Review 2017
- Poster - Geophysical signals in the 3-50 Hz ELF band. (2018)
- Paper - MagPySV: a Python package for processing and denoising geomagnetic observatory data. (2018)
- Paper - The ground effects of severe space weather. (2018)
- Paper - Ensemble Kalman filter analysis of magnetic field models during the CHAMP-Swarm gap. (2018)
- Poster - An investigation into Geoelectric tides at three sites in the UK. (2017)
- Poster - Magnetic observatory data products for space weather operations. (2017)
- Paper - Observation of Ionospheric Alfven Resonances at 1--30 Hz and their superposition with the Schumann Resonances. (2018)
- Paper - Estimating external magnetic field differences at high geomagnetic latitudes from a single station. (2018)
- Poster - Forecasting geomagnetic time series for global field modelling. (2018)
- Poster - Geomagnetic jerks during the Swarm era and impact on IGRF-12. (2018)
- Mapping a geomagnetic storm with Raspberry Pi magnetometers
- Speech - Recent advances and validation of GIC modelling in the UK. (2017)
- Paper - Long term geomagnetically induced current observations from New Zealand: peak current estimates for extreme geomagnetic storms. (2017)
- Paper - Modeling geoelectric fields and geomagnetically induced currents around New Zealand to explore GIC in the South Island's electrical transmission network. (2017)
2017
- Good pointers - helping smartphones show the way
- Advance of the Agonic - what does this mean?
- Paper - Climatology of the Auroral Electrojets derived from the Along-Track Gradient of Magnetic Field Intensity measured by POGO, Magsat, CHAMP, and Swarm. (2017)
- Poster - Statistical forecasting techniques applied to observatory data for core field modelling. (2017)
- Poster - Using Ensemble KalmanFiltering to improve magnetic field models during vector satellite data ‘gaps’? (2017)
- Paper - Long-term geomagnetically induced current observations in New Zealand: Earth return corrections and geomagnetic field driver. (2017)
- Advance of the Agonic - what does this mean?
- Alert! 11th September - another chance of viewing aurora!
- Update - 8th September - CME arrival and magnetic storm
- Alert! 8th September - further chance of viewing aurora
- Alert! 7th September - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Geomagnetism Review 2016
- Poster - Magnetic Schumann Resonances in Swarm ASM Burst Mode, VFM HF and e-POP Data? (2017)
- Poster - Recent BGS activities for the Swarm DISC (2017)
- Poster - Rapid geomagnetic secular variation during the Swarm era and its impact on global field models (2017)
- Paper - Understanding GIC in the UK and French high-voltage transmission systems during severe magnetic storms (2017)
- Paper - Quantifying the daily economic impact of extreme space weather due to failure in electricity transmission infrastructure (2017)
- Alert! 16 July - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Vacancy - Space Weather Geophysicist - Apply by 30th July
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Scientist - Apply by 30th July
- Lerwick Open Days
- Research grant awarded - Space Weather Impact on Ground-based Systems (SWIGS)
- Alert! 27 March - increased chance of viewing aurora over next 2-3 days
2016
- Aurora camera at Eskdalemuir
- Model of the Earth's Magnetic Environment
- Alert! 25 Oct onwards - increased chance of viewing aurora
- Paper - Geomagnetic jerks in the Swarm Era (2016)
- Paper -Decadal period external magnetic field variations determined via eigenanalysis (2016)
- Alert! 28-29 Sep increased chance of viewing aurora
- Poster - Use of Swarm gradient field data to improve lithospheric field models (2016)
- Poster - Geomagnetic jerks in the Swarm Era (2016)
- Poster - Concerning BGS activities for the Swarm Data, Innovation, and Science Cluster (2016)
- Poster - Investigating the location and strength of the auroral electrojets using Swarm (2016)
- Poster - Collection, quality control and delivery of ground-based magnetic data during ESA’s Swarm mission (2016)
- Article - Space weather goes to schools (2016)
- Geomagnetism Review 2015
- Alert! There is an increased chance of viewing the aurora over the weekend (3 Jun 2016)
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Instrumentation Engineer - Apply by 30th April
- Office relocation - physical address change
2015
- Alert! Increase chance of viewing the aurora - 18-19 Dec 2015
- Paper - The BGS magnetic field candidate models for the 12th generation IGRF (2015)
- Paper - The Swarm Initial Field Model for the 2014 geomagnetic field (2015)
- Paper - International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the 12th generation (2015)
- Paper - Evaluation of candidate geomagnetic field models for IGRF-12 (2015)
- Paper - Derivation and use of core surface flows for forecasting secular variation (2015)
- Geomagnetic activity alert 07-Oct-2015
- New quasi-dipole geomagnetic coordinate calculator
- Geomagnetic activity alert 11-Sep-2015
- Geomagnetism Review 2014
- Blog - Measuring magnetic history at Godrevy Point
- Blog - The St. Patrick's Day Geomagnetic Storm
- Alert! There is an increased chance of viewing the aurora overnight (17 Mar 2015)
- New observatory - Fort McMurray
- Paper - Sensitivity of geomagnetically induced currents to varying auroral electrojet and conductivity models (2015)
2014
- Poster - Extremes in worldwide geomagnetic activity (2014)
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Instrumentation Engineer (closing 21st Jan 2015)
- Alert! Increased possibility of viewing the aurora 19th-21st Dec
- Press Release - Course correction for the world's smartphones
- Vacancy - Global Geomagnetic Field Modeller (closing 30th Nov)
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic IT specialist (closing 9th Nov)
- Alert Issued (10th Sept) - Possiblity of aurora during 12th September
- GeoSocial Aurora - a new aurora sighting mapping tool
- Paper - Automatic detection of ionospheric Alfvén resonances using signal and image processing techniques (2014)
- Poster - Forecasting secular variation from CHAMP to Swarm (2014)
- Poster - Validation of Swarm satellite magnetic data using observatory measurements (2014)
- Poster - Statistics of Coronal Mass Ejections for use in space weather forecasting (2014)
- Poster - The European risk from geomagnetically induced currents (EURISGIC) (2014)
- Poster - Developments in geomagnetic field data relevant for deep Earth research (2014)
- Geomagnetism Review 2013
- Poster - An automatic method for detection and classification of Ionospheric Alfvén Resonances using signal and image processing techniques (2014)
- Poster - Developments in geomagnetic field data relevant for deep Earth research (2014)
- Update - to the space weather alert on the 4th April (7 Apr 2014)
- Alert! There is an increased chance of viewing the aurora this weekend (4 Apr 2014)
- Update - increased chance of viewing the aurora in the next few days (21 Feb 2014)
- Geomagnetism Geohazard briefing note
- Alert! There is an increased chance of viewing the aurora in the next few days (20 Feb 2014)
- Alert! There is an increased chance of viewing the aurora this weekend (14 Feb 2014)
- Blog - Something's happening to Magnetic North in Great Britain in 2014
- Alert! A geomagnetic storm is expected on the 9th following an X-class flare on 7th Jan
2013
- Podcast - Why measure the Earth's magnetic field?
- 1st place! - "Why is it important to study the Earth's Magnetic Field?" wins the BGS Poster Competition 2013
- Paper - Independent validation of Swarm Level2 magnetic field products and 'Quick Look' for Level 1b data (2013)
- Paper - The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) and Swarm data products (2013)
- Paper - Observatory data and the Swarm mission (2013)
- Poster - Investigation of Pc1 pulsations using high frequency induction coils magnetometers.
- Article - Current Crisis
- ESA Swarm launch in November
- How do smartphones know where North is?
- Paper - Ionospheric mid-latitude electric current density inferred from multiple magnetic satellites (2013)
- A new £17m Earth & marine research centre in Edinburgh
- BGS Open Day - 28th September 2013 - Edinburgh
- Poster - Geomagnetism Data Portal: a new service from the World Data Centre, Edinburgh.
- Poster - The role of geomagnetic observatory data during the Swarm mission.
- Poster - Investigation of decadal scale changes in the auroral oval positions using Magsat and CHAMP data.
- Poster - Correcting observatory data prior to scientific analyses.
- Poster - The making of ground-based vector magnetic field observations and the application of results.
- Poster - Investigation of global lightning and the ionosphere using high frequency induction coils.
- Activity Alert! 30th August
- Activity Alert! 23rd August
- Geomagnetism Review 2012 3MB pdf
- Poster - Application of spherical Slepian functions to aeromagnetic data and in crustal field modelling (2013)
- Paper - Prediction of Extreme Geomagnetically Induced Currents in the UK high-voltage network (2013)
- Poster - Near real-time characterisation of auroral activity using satellite magnetic data. (2013)
- Poster - Investigation of global lightning using Schumann resonances measured by high frequency induction coil magnetometers in the UK. (2013)
- Poster - Early results from the UK Geo-Electric Field Monitoring Project. (2013)
- Podcast - Solar storms that can cause blackouts
- Press release - Measurements help defend grid against space weather
- BGS GeoBloggy - Does the Ionosphere really hum?
- 1st place! - "Space Weather Alert" wins the BGS Poster Competition 2013
- Paper - Spectral and spatial decomposition of lithospheric magnetic field models using spherical Slepian functions (2013)
- Paper - The BGS's new Geomagnetic Data Web Service (2013)
- Disturbance Alert! - 12th April 2013
- Disturbance Alert! - 15th March 2013
- Now live! - Geo-electric measuments from Eskdalemuir and Lerwick
- Paper - Operations of the World Data Centre for Geomagnetism (2013)
- Royal Academy of Engineering report on Extreme Space Weather in the UK
- Poster - Investigation of global lightning using Schumann resonances measured by high frequency induction coil magnetometers in the UK (2013)
2012
- Poster - Should archaeologists be concerned about naturally varying magnetic fields? (2012)
- Poster - Space weather and extreme geomagnetic activity (2012)
- See the current UK magnetic activity levels
- British Science Festival events, Aberdeen 5th September
- New research into high-frequency magnetometers
- Geomagnetism Review 2011 3MB pdf
- Video tour of Eskdalemuir Observatory
- Geomagnetism services to the oil & gas industry 1MB pdf
- Photos of a visit to Eskdalemuir Magnetic Observatory - May 2012
- Scott's Antarctic scientific legacy | Observing the Earth's magnetic field
- News: BGS to validate ESA's geomagnetic Swarm data
- Archive of historical observatory yearbooks & articles now available
- Information about the Hartland Low-field Calibration Facility
- Planet Earth podcast: Risks from solar storms on the UK power grid (from 13:30)
- Review of BGS Geomagnetism Team activites in 2010 3.9MB pdf
- Paper - "Quantifying extreme behavior in geomagnetic activity" (2011)
- Planet Earth News - "Keeping Europe's lights on when space weather strikes" (Page 2) 2.4MB pdf
- Paper - "INDIGO: better geomagnetic observatories where we need them." (2011)
- Paper - "First steps towards K Indices from South Atlantic Observatories : Port Stanley Observatory" (2011)
- Paper - "An investigation into techniques for isolating noise in observatory data." (2011)
- Vacancy - Geomagnetic Data Processor
- Planet Earth Article - "Modelling the world's magnetism" 1.3MB pdf
- YouTube video - BGS Geomagnetism - An introduction
2011
- South Georgia News - "Magnetic Observatory Up and Running"
- New World Magnetic Model web service
- New Magnetic Observatory - King Edward Point
- Space Weather - why does it matter?
- Tips on viewing the aurora
- Geomag Storm warning - 4th Aug 2011
- Vacancy - Post Doctoral Research Associate - Geomagnetic Hazard Specialist
- Geomag Storm warning - 9th Jun 2011
- Universities and Science Minister visits BGS Edinburgh
- Paper - "Resolving issues concerning Eskdalemuir geomagnetic hourly values" (2011)
- South Atlantic blog 2011 - installing a new remote magnetic observatory
- Book - Contributions in "Geomagnetic Observations and Models" (2011)
- Now online! - Historical UK magnetic observatory magnetograms
- Paper - "The BGS magnetic field candidate models for the 11th generation IGRF" (2010)
- Update on aurora alert - 18 Feb 2011
- Aurora Alert! - UK auroras possible in next few days
2010
- Paper - "Evaluation of candidate geomagnetic field models for IGRF-11" (2010)
- Lloyd's of London briefing on Space Weather risk 1.8MB pdf
- Planet Earth Article - "Where is North?" 1.1MB pdf
- Paper - "Interpolation of externally-caused magnetic fields over large sparse arrays using Spherical Elementary Current Systems" (2010)
- Review of BGS Geomagnetism Team activites in 2009 1.8MB pdf
- Planet Earth podcast: Space weather and a trip into the archives
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology- Space Weather briefing note 229kB pdf
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