EISCAT Svalbard radar (This photo was taken in August 2002)
Rule of Use
The EISCAT data are the intellectual property of the EISCAT Scientific Association. They may be freely used for the purpose of illustration for teaching and for non-commercial scientific research, provided that the source is acknowledged and to the extent justified by the non-commercial purpose to be achieved. Substantial use of these data should be discussed at an early stage with knowledgeable scientists within the EISCAT Scientific Association (Staff in EISCAT HQ and/or
EISCAT Associates' Data Representatives, for examples).
A general form of the acknowledgement statement is as follows:
EISCAT is an international association supported by research organizations in China (CRIRP), Finland (SA), Japan (NIPR and ISEE), Norway (NFR), Sweden (VR), and the United Kingdom (UKRI).
What's new?
Conductivity database and 3-D ion velocity (tristatic VHF) database were updated. (March, 2024)
ASCII and CDF data were prepared and added to this database. (April, August and December, 2023)
ASCII and CDF data (most of AA data up to November 2022) were prepared and added to this database. (December, 2022)
ASCII and CDF data (most of CP/AA data up to February 2022) were prepared and added to this database. (February, 2022)
ESR 5-min ASCII data (between 2016 and 2021) were prepared and added to this database. (November, 2021)
ASCII and CDF data (most of CP/AA data up to October 2021) were prepared and added to this database. (October, 2021)
ASCII and CDF data (most of CP/AA data up to Jan 2021 and SP data up to Jan 2020) and summary plots were prepared
and added to this database. (January, 2021)
The database of conductivity data were updated and added to this database. (Sep, 2020)
The database of all the 3-D ion velocity data derived with monostatic method were updated
and added to this database. (Aug-Sep, 2020)
ASCII and CDF data (most of CP/AA data up to March 2020 and SP data up to March 2019) and summary plots were prepared
and added to this database. (April, 2020)
ASCII data (most of CP/AA data up to Feb 2020 and SP data up to Feb 2019) and summary plots were updated
and added to this database. (March, 2020)
VHF remote site database were updated. (January 2020)
CDF and ASCII data (most of CP/AA and SP data up to Sep 2019) were updated
and added to this database. (Sep, 2019)
Layout of this database webpage was updated. (February 2019)
CDF and ASCII data for the Rocksat rocket campaign were added. (January 2019)
CDF and ASCII data (most of CP/AA and SP data up to Feb 2018) were updated
and added to this database. (Sep, 2018)
CDF data (most of CP/AA and SP data up to July 2016) were updated
and added to this database. (July, 2017)
Recent data (most of CP and SP data up to February 2016) were updated
and added to this database. (February, 2017)
CDF format data were newly prepared and added to this database. (February, 2016)
Recent data (CP data in 2015 and most of data in 2014) were updated
and added to this database. (December, 2015)
This webpage was moved to a different web server (133.57.20.115). (February, 2015)
Recent data (CP data in 2014 and most of data in 2013) were updated
and added to this database. (December, 2014)
CP data obtained in April 2014 were added. (June, 2014)
3-D velocity and electric field data were updated and a calender page
for the data was made. (June, 2013)
EISCAT Data finder was slightly updated. (May, 2013)
Recent data were updated and added to this database. (January, 2013)
Several data were updated and added to this database. (July and August, 2012)
A paper on EISCAT data analysis and its visualization was published.
(April, 2012)
The paper is
here (pdf format, written in Japanese)
A short EISCAT data course was held in Nagoya University.
(February, 2012)
Its program is
here (written in Japanese)
Almost all data were updated. (January and February, 2012)
A short EISCAT data course was held in NIPR.
(July, 2012)
Its program is
here (written in Japanese)
CDF data for TDAS plots are added.
This is a part of
the IUGONET project
. (May, 2011)
All data lists were updated. (April, 2011)
Old uhf data (1985-1988) were analysed and added to the database.
(April, 2011)
Almost all data were updated. (December, 2010 and March, 2011)
A short EISCAT data course was held in Kochi National College of Technology.
(August, 2010)
3D ion velocity and conductivity data were updated. (August, 2010)
All data (UHF, VHF and ESR) were updated and png files were added to the database.
(July, 2010)
New VHF and ESR data were added to this database.
(April, 2010)
This top page was renewed. (March, 2010)
A short EISCAT data course was held in NIPR.
(February, 2010)
Its program is
here (written in Japanese)
Ionospheric conductivity data were prepared and released.
(February, 2010)
All analysed data
were updated and a problem of the ion velocities offset (see below)
was fixed. (February, 2010)
Ion velocities should decrease by 7.0 m/s
(for all ESR data) and 3.5 m/s (for all KST UHF data) at all altitudes.
(October, 2009)
Summary plots for E-region study were added in the data finder.
(July, 2009)
All the data (ESR, KST UHF and VHF) were updated.
(July, 2009)
Tromso VHF data after 2000 was updated. (February, 2009)
Lists of KST/ESR/IPY data were added. (February, 2009)
3D ion velocity data were added to this page.
The velocity was derived with tristatic method (kst) or
monostatic method (tro/esr). (January, 2009)
ESR IPY long-run data were added to the Data finder and
ESR data pages. (February, 2008)
Data finder was prepared for the event selection
(Collaboration with Dr. Y. Miyashita in JAXA). (November, 2007)
Kmz files were added to the ESR and Tromso UHF data pages, to
plot EISCAT data on Google Earth
(Collaboration with Dr. A. Saito in Kyoto University).
A movie file is
here. (October, 2007)
Realtime pictures of the ESR 32m antenna and Tromso VHF
antenna were put on this web page. (September, 2007)
ESR and KST data have been updated since March 2007.
