Abstract
Sudden Impulse (SI) events and Sudden Storm Commencements (SSC) are
rapid geomagnetic variations associated with a compression of the
magnetic field. Starting in 2006 Ebre Observatory, the IAGA
international database on rapid magnetic variations, began to
differentiate SI events from SSCs. These events have different magnetic
characteristics depending on local time and latitude. Starting in 2006
and ending with the last definitive published dataset, the module SeaPy
within Python is used to perform a superposed epoch analysis on SI
events and SSCs for high latitude stations and low latitude stations. In
relation to low latitude station onset times, we find systematic
behavior of the total field strength and North-South component of the
magnetic field at high latitudes. Specifically, the SI and SSC
signatures are delayed and the compression signature can be highly
variable from event to event.