Madrigal Database

Welcome to the Madrigal Database
at Cornell University

MIT Haystack Observatory, home of the Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar, has supported an on-line incoherent scatter database since 1980. The Observatory continues to maintain and develop its database system, known as Madrigal, which now contains data from a variety of upper-atmosphere research instruments. The basic data format is the same as used by the National Science Foundation supported Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) program, which maintains a CEDAR Database at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Data files are easily exchanged between the two sites, but Madrigal has a significantly different emphasis.

Madrigal is a robust, World Wide Web based system capable of managing and serving archival and real-time data, in a variety of formats, from a wide range of instruments. Data can be accessed from the Madrigal sites at Millstone Hill, USA, EISCAT, Norway, SRI International, USA, Cornell University, USA, Jicamarca, Peru, The Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Russia, and Wuhan Ionospheric Observatory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, using standard Web browsers; through SPARC; and directly, using APIs which are available for several popular programming languages. A CVS archive of all Madrigal software and documentation is available from the Open Madrigal Web site. The latest version of Madrigal may also be downloaded from there.

Revised: August 22, 2003
Suggestions and comments should be directed to

dlh37@cornell.edu

Welcome to the Madrigal Database at Cornell University

Welcome to the Madrigal Database
at Cornell University