L’índex Ap proporciona un nivell mitjà diari d’activitat geomagnètica. A causa de la relació no lineal de l'escala K amb les fluctuacions del magnetòmetre, no és significatiu prendre la mitjana d'un conjunt d'índexs K. En canvi, cada valor K de 3 hores es convertirà de nou en una escala lineal anomenada índex a. La mitjana de vuit valors diaris ens proporciona l'índex Ap d'un dia determinat. L’índex Ap és, per tant, un índex d’activitat geomagnètica en què els dies amb nivells elevats d’activitat geomagnètica tenen un valor diari més alt.
The daily Ap-value is obtained by averaging the eight 3-hour values of ap for each day. To get the Ap-value you first need to convert the 3-hour Kp-values to ap-values. Be aware that we use the official, finalized Kp which comes from the GFZ in Potsdam, Germany. This Kp-index works slightly different then the preliminary Kp-index. Read about this in our Kp-index help article. To make it a bit more clear on how you can determine the Ap for a certain day, we will work with an example: we take one day with the following measured Kp-values: 0+, 2-, 2o, 3o, 7-, 8o, 9- and 9o. The next step would be to convert these Kp-values to ap-values. The table at the bottom of this article will help you with this. When we are done converting we get these eight ap-values: 2, 6, 7, 15, 111, 207, 300 and 400. The average of these eight values will give you the Ap for that day. The day that we used in this example day would have an Ap-value of 131. The table below will let you convert the Kp-values to ap-values.
| Kp | Kp en decimals | ap | Escala G |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0o | 0,00 | 0 | G0 |
| 0+ | 0,33 | 2 | G0 |
| 1- | 0,67 | 3 | G0 |
| 1o | 1,00 | 4 | G0 |
| 1+ | 1,33 | 5 | G0 |
| 2- | 1,67 | 6 | G0 |
| 2o | 2,00 | 7 | G0 |
| 2+ | 2,33 | 9 | G0 |
| 3- | 2,67 | 12 | G0 |
| 3o | 3,00 | 15 | G0 |
| 3+ | 3,33 | 18 | G0 |
| 4- | 3,67 | 22 | G0 |
| 4o | 4,00 | 27 | G0 |
| 4+ | 4,33 | 32 | G0 |
| 5- | 4,67 | 39 | G1 |
| 5o | 5,00 | 48 | G1 |
| 5+ | 5,33 | 56 | G1 |
| 6- | 5,67 | 67 | G2 |
| 6o | 6,00 | 80 | G2 |
| 6+ | 6,33 | 94 | G2 |
| 7- | 6,67 | 111 | G3 |
| 7o | 7,00 | 132 | G3 |
| 7+ | 7,33 | 154 | G3 |
| 8- | 7,67 | 179 | G4 |
| 8o | 8,00 | 207 | G4 |
| 8+ | 8,33 | 236 | G4 |
| 9- | 8,67 | 300 | G4 |
| 9o | 9,00 | 400 | G5 |
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