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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
A Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association

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Data Structure Muon Detector and Neutron Monitor at the "Polarstern"

label web interface	description of variables	SI unit	example
time	UTC time since 1.1.2010 00:00:00	seconds	165500000
year			2014
month			6
day			21
hour			15
lat	geographic latitude: northern (+) or southern (-) distance to the equator	degree	-77°
long	geographic longitude: eastern (+) or western (-) distance to the zero meridian	degree	-33.6°
p	atmospheric pressure	hPa	1028.8
T	temperature	degree Celsius	-2.5
H	humidity	%	51.3
mu_rate	muon rate, number per hour	1/h	4020
nm_rate	neutron-monitor-rate, number of nucleons per hour	1/h	4320
T_nm	temperature at the neutron-monitor	degree Celsius	22.4
p_nm	atmospheric pressure at the neutron-monitor	hectopascals	1027.3
HV_nm	High voltage at the counter tube of the neutron monitor	Volt	1363

The variable "time" can easily be converted into our usual date format. A detailed explanation can be found in the glossary.

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