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ACE SWEPAM/SWICS Level 3 Merged Solar Wind Proton Data

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spase://NASA/NumericalData/ACE/SWEPAM/SWICS/PT12M

Description
These data files contain 12-min resolution solar wind proton flow velocity (GSE, RTN and GSM components), scalar speed, density, and (radial component of) temperature, plus the alpha particle to proton density ratio. The data are typically from the SWEPAM instrument. But because SWEPAM has reduced sensitivity at the lowest energies, and at times underestimates the proton density, especially for very slow wind, proton density is sometimes culled from low-speed (.LT. ~350 km/s) intervals in the SWEPAM Level 2 data, and proton temperature may also be culled. More rarely, the solar wind velocity may also be culled, especially during periods of both high solar energetic particle background and high wind speeds. In these cases, SWICS-determined proton density and temperature, and possibly also flow speed (not velocity vectors), are included in the data records, with a flag to indicate whether, and which, SWICS parameters are in the records. As of July, 2012, data were available to the end of 2009.

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ResourceID
spase://NASA/NumericalData/ACE/SWEPAM/SWICS/PT12M
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
ACE SWEPAM/SWICS Level 3 Merged Solar Wind Proton Data
ReleaseDate
2020-07-07 21:14:15Z
Description
These data files contain 12-min resolution solar wind proton flow velocity (GSE, RTN and GSM components), scalar speed, density, and (radial component of) temperature, plus the alpha particle to proton density ratio. The data are typically from the SWEPAM instrument. But because SWEPAM has reduced sensitivity at the lowest energies, and at times underestimates the proton density, especially for very slow wind, proton density is sometimes culled from low-speed (.LT. ~350 km/s) intervals in the SWEPAM Level 2 data, and proton temperature may also be culled. More rarely, the solar wind velocity may also be culled, especially during periods of both high solar energetic particle background and high wind speeds. In these cases, SWICS-determined proton density and temperature, and possibly also flow speed (not velocity vectors), are included in the data records, with a flag to indicate whether, and which, SWICS parameters are in the records. As of July, 2012, data were available to the end of 2009.
Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge the ACE/SWEPAM and SWICS instrument teams and the ACE Science Center
Contacts
Role Person StartDate StopDate Note
1. TechnicalContact spase://SMWG/Person/Ruth.Skoug
2. PrincipalInvestigator spase://SMWG/Person/David.J.McComas
3. PrincipalInvestigator spase://SMWG/Person/George.Gloeckler

InformationURL
Name
ACE SWEPAM Level 3 Data Home Page
URL
Description
ACE Science Center site describing SWEPAM/SWICS merged solar wind proton data set
PriorIDs
spase://VSPO/NumericalData/ACE/SWEPAM/SWICS/PT12M
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
Availability
Online
AccessRights
Open
AccessURL
Name
ACE Science Center Interactive Interface
URL
Description
Subset, plot, or list data
Format
Text
Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge the ACE/SWEPAM and SWICS instrument teams and the ACE Science Center
ProviderProcessingLevel
Level 3
InstrumentIDs
MeasurementType
ThermalPlasma
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
1998-01-28 00:00:12Z
RelativeStopDate
-P2Y
Cadence
PT12M
ObservedRegion
Heliosphere.NearEarth