The Open Madrigal Initiative

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, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 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; and directly, using APIs which are available for several popular programming languages.

The distributed Madrigal Database has been recognized by a Sun Microsystems Academic Excellence Award which included the Haystack Observatory server which hosts the Open Madrigal project.