Access through ESA VirES for Swarm

[smithara]

"VirES for Swarm" is an ESA service that gives convenient access to Swarm data. Work has now begun to also provide access to the BGS-provided Swarm AUX_OBS data (ftp://ftp.nerc-murchison.ac.uk/geomag/Swarm/AUX_OBS/) - including INTERMAGNET minute and second data and the specially prepared hourly means.

A prototype through Python package viresclient can be seen here:
https://github.com/pacesm/jupyter_notebooks/blob/master/OBS/OBS_data_access.ipynb

• observatory time series can be accessed as pandas.DataFrame or xarray.Dataset along with auxiliary information such as MLT and model forward evaluations - public access through viresclient should be available relatively soon
• notebooks will be provided to demonstrate usage of the data for analysis
• eventually there will also be GUI access at https://vires.services/

I think the INTERMAGNET site should provide links to this service when ready along with some consolidation of data access methods and tools , which I'll be very happy to help with

I understand also that the data acknowledgements are very important so I'm thinking through how best to make this information obvious to the users of VirES - I'll report back when I have something in place to check it is acceptable.