Data Access

Geotail 15-sec magnetic field data, solar wind only

ResourceID

spase://JAXA/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S

Description

Data consist of 15-sec averages of magnetic field magnitude and GSE Cartesian components, from the MGF magnetometer on Geotail. Data are for only the solar wind phases of the Geotail orbit. The Geotail position vector in GSE coordinates is included.

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Details

Version:2.4.1

NumericalData

ResourceID

spase://JAXA/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S

ResourceHeader

ResourceName

Geotail 15-sec magnetic field data, solar wind only

ReleaseDate

2022-07-25 12:34:56.789

RevisionHistory

RevisionEvent

ReleaseDate

2021-03-10 20:13:28

Note

Only known prior ReleaseDate of the metadata

RevisionEvent

ReleaseDate

2022-07-25 12:34:56.789

Note

Updated one AccessURL URL by JMW 2022-06-02, metadata updated to SPASE 2.4.1, reviewed by LFB 20220724

Description

Acknowledgement

Dr. T. Nagai

Contacts

	Role	Person
1.	PrincipalInvestigator	spase://SMWG/Person/Tsugunobu.Nagai
2.	DataProducer	spase://SMWG/Person/Natalia.E.Papitashvili
3.	MetadataContact	spase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze

InformationURL

Name

Readme file at SPDF

URL

https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/geotail/mgf/mag_sw_15s_ascii/00readme

Description

Details on creation of this data set

PriorIDs

spase://VMO/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S

spase://VSPO/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S

AccessInformation

RepositoryID

spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF

Availability

Online

AccessRights

Open

AccessURL

Name

FTPS from SPDF (not with most browsers)

URL

ftps://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/geotail/mgf/mag_sw_15s_ascii/

AccessURL

Name

HTTPS from SPDF

URL

https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/geotail/mgf/mag_sw_15s_ascii/

Description

In CDF via HTTP from SPDF

AccessURL

Name

OMNIWeb-Plus

URL

https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpbrowser/geotail_mag15s.html

Description

FTPBrowser graphical display interface to ASCII data

Format

Text

Acknowledgement

Please acknowledge Principal Investigator T. Nagai, U. Tokyo, and J. King and N. Papitashvili, NASA/GSFC/SPDF, data set producers.

ProcessingLevel

Calibrated

InstrumentIDs

spase://SMWG/Instrument/Geotail/MGF

MeasurementType

MagneticField

TemporalDescription

TimeSpan

StartDate

1995-03-01 00:00:00

StopDate

2000-06-10 00:00:00

Cadence

PT0.32S

ObservedRegion

Heliosphere.NearEarth

ObservedRegion

Earth.Magnetosphere.Magnetotail

Parameter #1

Name

Time

ParameterKey

Column_1, Column_2, Column_3, Column_4, Column_5

Description

Universal time at start of average

Cadence

PT15S

Structure

Size

Description

Year, day-of-year, hour, minute, second at start of average

Support

SupportQuantity

Temporal

Parameter #2

Name

Magnetic Field Magnitude

ParameterKey

Column_7

Description

Average magnitude magnitude

Cadence

PT15S

Units

Field

Qualifier

Vector

FieldQuantity

Magnetic

Parameter #3

Name

Magnetic Field Vector

ParameterKey

Column_8, Column_9, Column_10

Description

GSE Cartesian components of magnetic field vector

Cadence

PT15S

Units

CoordinateSystem

CoordinateRepresentation

Cartesian

CoordinateSystemName

GSE

Structure

Size

Description

GSE Cartesian components in X,Y,Z sequence

Field

Qualifier

Vector

FieldQuantity

Magnetic

Parameter #4

Name

Spacecraft position vector

ParameterKey

Column_11, Column_12, Column_13

Description

GSE Cartesian components of spacecraft position vector

Cadence

PT15S

Units

CoordinateSystem

CoordinateRepresentation

Cartesian

CoordinateSystemName

GSE

Structure

Size

Description

GSE Cartesian components in X,Y,Z sequence

Support

Qualifier

Vector

SupportQuantity

Positional