Hi everyone my name is Stefan i'm a geophysicist and today i'm going to explain how you can read
the charts graphs and data on the space observing system website this is a website
that is in Russian which makes it difficult there's also a lack of kind of indicators
and they collect data out of Tomsk, Russia and this is in the middle of the Eurasian
continental plate so it's a good place to collect all this space and atmospheric data
a lot of people have trouble reading this data specifically they're looking at how to
read the Schumann resonance data because they have all that there so this is the main
website you have the different categories this is weather this is background electromagnetic field
ionospheric stuff we're not going to touch that today we will go here but then you have
at the bottom here Шумановские резонансы so that's the Schumann data then you have частоты
which is frequency Амплитуды amplitude and then which is q factor so we'll go right in so you
can begin to understand how you can read this it's really simple you have frequency in hertz
on the y-axis and then you have time in hours on the x-axis so this is basically frequency plotted
against time and the color represents amplitude so it's a 3d graph that we're looking at here
and the lower amplitudes are these purples and blues and the high amplitudes are the whites,
yellow and green are basically in the middle so the first thing you'll notice is well you might
notice this first i'll talk about that but the first thing is this these bands
for the Schumann resonances so you have the foundational Schumann resonance here at 7.8
then you have one here at about 14 and then 20 and 25/26 and so on so forth so
barely you can see one barely here at like 32 or so so it's pretty clear that the foundational
one's the strongest it has the highest amplitudes as you can tell it goes so white and red at some
points and then this next one is weaker and they kind of die out they also pulse as you can tell
depending on what time it is right the the day night cycle and atmospheric weather
that's nearby there's a lot of factors that influence the Schumann resonances
this right here could be space weather what it actually is is thunderstorm that's over Tomsk
right now or it was so you can see it peaked at the hour 16 and if you go here you can see that
we had thunderstorms in Tomsk and right now it's currently thunderstorms overcast so that is the
reason for this large large amplification of this low frequency zero to 40 hertz electromagnetic
energy and that actually helps to sustain the Schumann resonance that's what creates
the Schumann resonance in the first place is these lightning strikes so
this is a good indicator this helps us understand what's known as the q-factor
so i'll go to the q-factor really quick, Добротности
and if you have a pendulum that's well greased that has a high q factor it's not going to
dampen out easily whereas if you have a pendulum that doesn't have any oil on the bearing it'll
dampen out really quickly and therefore it'll stop swinging that's the q-factor how well a resonator
can keep sustaining itself and how little or how much energy it loses in the process so we have
the q-factors here on the side for the different the four different modes foundational going to the
higher we have 4 to 17 and we'll notice that the q-factor here is pretty low some little spikes but
then it jumps up a lot for all the different modes depending on the time and when that thunderstorm
rolled in so that's what sustains the summer resonance that's what gives the Schumann resonance
a continuous replenishment and a higher q-factor so resonators with high quality factors have low
dampening and therefore they vibrate ring resonate for longer so the higher q-factor you have
the lower rate of energy loss and oscillations again die more slowly so you can see how there's
differences in the q-factor between the different modes of the Schumann resonance so there's
patterns and observations that you can start to make if you visit this website
consistently visually observe the data and kind of mentally log it away but we'll go to
frequency next the frequency graph that's Частоты and this shows the average frequency
per time for the different modes so we have the overall average frequency but then you have
the peak frequency and how it kind of changes for the different modes over time so you can
see this this is the foundational going from 7.25 hertz up to 8.04 hertz and then the
explainer for the second mode is on the right side and back and forth so 12.7 to 14.6 and so on so
forth so you can see how these peak frequencies for the individual Schumann modes changes over
time and you can start to correlate this with other factors like weather or space phenomenon
or what have you this website's just great at just putting the data out there they collect the data
they do a good job at it and then they put it out there problem is that's in Russian so if
you speak English you don't speak Russian it's difficult to kind of navigate around Частоты
frequency Амплитуды is amplitude we'll go there next this shows the amplitudes
of these Schumann resonance and you'll see that this atmospheric weather the thunderstorm caused
a huge increase in the amplitudes the strength of the electromagnetic waves associated with
those Schumann resonance frequencies those bands we also notice that the base amplitude that they
use to measure the foundational is four whereas the other ones it's all two two two two so you
can see that the foundational street amount of resonance already has a 2x factor it's already
about two times stronger on average in amplitude than these other modes and that's how physics
works typically but you see the amplitude jumped up dramatically you'll see the peak amplitude 68
was actually highest for the foundational whereas the peak amplitude is 56 for the second mode
and then so and so forth 46 for the next one and 39 lowest amplitude peak amplitude for the
highest mode that's easily measured so that falls in line with what we would
expect we expect that foundational Schumann resonance to have the highest amplitude data
and the Schumann resonances aren't changing those frequencies are set when people are saying is it
going to spike to some number like 100 or 150 or 80 or whatever it's the amplitude that they're
talking about well the Schumann resonance reach this type of amplitude and you have to remember
that if a thunderstorm rolls over Tomsk it's just measuring the amplitude the Schumann resonance at
Tomsk it's not an indication of the global but when things are quiet at Tomsk weather's quiet
then it's measuring really the Schumann resonance for a pretty broad area so that is a little bit
of an explainer so you have a better understanding of what's happening here and i'm going to quickly
also show you the Уровень электромагнитного фона which is the background electromagnetic levels
and this is interesting just because there's some interesting patterns in here
this chart goes from 0 to 30 megahertz and then also measured across time we have decibels so kind
of like our amplitude is decibels here going from zero to ninety but the biggest thing that I notice
is this this bounding electromagnetic higher decibel pulse that occurs over time so that's
likely due to the fact that the Earth has a day and night cycle I need a research
into that more but you can see it goes from zero up to 20 and back down is all megahertz
see some other bands here that's all interesting so I hope you found this video explainer useful
and understanding how you can read the Schumann resonance graphs if you like
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