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title: Openmadrigal
message: >-
  Openmadrigal is an open source database designed for
  geospace datasets
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: William
    family-names: Rideout
    email: brideout@mit.edu
    affiliation: MIT Haystack Observatory
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-4855'
  - given-names: Katherine
    family-names: Cariglia
    email: cariglia@mit.edu
    affiliation: MIT Haystack Observatory
repository-code: 'https://github.com/MITHaystack/openmadrigal'
url: 'http://cedar.openmadrigal.org/openmadrigal'
abstract: >-
  Madrigal is an upper atmospheric science database used by
  groups throughout the world. 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 upper atmospheric science instruments.
  Data at each Madrigal site is locally controlled and can
  be updated at any time, but shared metadata between
  Madrigal sites allow searching of all Madrigal sites at
  once from any Madrigal site.


  The Madrigal database is designed to hold data about the
  upper atmosphere. One of the strengths of the Madrigal is
  that most of the measured parameters it contains are
  defined in a community standard, whose metadata can be
  found under the Access metadata tab. With the release of
  Madrigal 3.0, the file format is now Hdf2 with the
  restrictions defined in the CEDAR Madrigal Hdf5 file
  format. This standard defines many frames of reference
  used commonly in atmospheric science, such as geodetic
  coordinates, geomagnetic coordinates, or radar (azimuth,
  elevation, and range) coordinates. Upper atmospheric data
  that can fit into one of these coordinate systems is a
  good candidate for Madrigal. Madrigal is not presently
  designed to handle spacecraft ephemeris in order to
  determine location, and to date Madrigal has only been
  used to hold spacecraft data that is independent of
  position (such as solar wind) or can be converted to one
  of the coordinate systems discussed above (such as total
  electron concentration in geodetic coordinates from GPS
  satellites).


  Detailed instructions for installation can be found at
  http://cedar.openmadrigal.org/docs/name/admin.html


  For support, contact brideout@mit.edu, cariglia@mit.edu,
  or pje@mit.edu.
keywords:
  - Database
  - Geospace
  - Hdf5
license: MIT