| Title | Space Weather - Geomagnetic Activity Zones / Météo spatiale - Zones dactivité géomagnétique |
| Download | Downloads |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Atlas of Canada |
| Source | Atlas of Canada, Reference Map Series 6440, 2010, 2 sheets, https://doi.org/10.4095/301264  Open Access |
| Year | 2010 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Edition | 6 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Maps | 2 maps |
| Map Info. | location, 1:7,500,000 |
| Projection | Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (NAD83) |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is related to the
following publications |
| File format | pdf; jpg; jp2; xml |
| Province | British Columbia; Alberta; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Nunavut; Canada |
| NTS | 1; 2; 3; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 52; 53; 54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 62; 63; 64; 65;
66; 67; 68; 69; 72; 73; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79; 82; 83; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 89; 92; 93; 94; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 102; 103; 104; 105; 106; 107; 114O; 114P; 115; 116; 117; 120; 340; 560 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -141.0000 -50.0000 90.0000 41.7500 |
| Subjects | environmental geology; Weather; Natural disasters |
| Released | 2010 12 31 |
| Abstract | The magnetic field of the Earth is influenced by the electromagnetic environment of the solar system. The disturbed interplanetary environment changes the conditions of the natural electromagnetic
environment of our planet and affects normal operation of space and ground technological infrastructures, such as power grids and pipelines.Geomagnetic activity can be described by the sizes of the disturbances in the Earth magnetic field and how
often they occur. Geomagnetic activity depends on the geographic location of the observing point. It is defined by the geometry of the Earths geomagnetic field and its interaction with both the charged particles produced by the Sun and the
solar/interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations. Canadian territory covers three zones of geomagnetic activity: the polar cap (north of Cambridge Bay), the auroral zone (between Cambridge Bay and Meanook) and the subauroral zone (south of Meanook).
The highest geomagnetic activity is observed in the auroral zone. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The map was originally published online in the Atlas of Canada, 6th Edition as an interactive digital map derived from a shapefile and mapped online
using MapServer, a platform for publishing spatial data to the web. In order to preserve the geographical content of this Edition during its publication from 1999 to 2009 all the maps have been converted from their online interactive form to a raster
and made available in PDF and JPEG. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 301264 |
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