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Geotail Low Energy Particle (LEP) experiment data Weimer Propagated 60 s Resolution in GSE Coordinates
Geotail LEP data
https://doi.org/10.21978/p8fk8q
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Geotail LEP Weimer propagated solar wind data and linearly interpolated to have the measurements on the minute at 60 s resolution data in GSE coordinates. This data set consists of propagated solar wind data that has first been propagated to a position just outside of the nominal bow shock (about 17, 0, 0 Re) and then linearly interpolated to 1 min resolution using the interp1.m function in MATLAB. The input data for this data set is a 1 min resolution processed solar wind data constructed by Dr. J.M. Weygand. The method of propagation is similar to the minimum variance technique and is outlined in Dan Weimer et al. [2003; 2004]. The basic method is to find the minimum variance direction of the magnetic field in the plane orthogonal to the mean magnetic field direction. This minimum variance direction is then dotted with the difference between final position vector minus the original position vector and the quantity is divided by the minimum variance dotted with the solar wind velocity vector, which gives the propagation time. This method does not work well for shocks and minimum variance directions with tilts greater than 70 degrees of the sun-earth line. This data set was originally constructed by Dr. J.M. Weygand for Prof. R.L. McPherron, who was the principle investigator of two National Science Foundation studies: GEM Grant ATM 02-1798 and a Space Weather Grant ATM 02-08501. These data were primarily used in superposed epoch studies References: Weimer, D. R. (2004), Correction to ‘‘Predicting interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) propagation delay times using the minimum variance technique,’’ J. Geophys. Res., 109, A12104, doi:10.1029/2004JA010691. Weimer, D.R., D.M. Ober, N.C. Maynard, M.R. Collier, D.J. McComas, N.F. Ness, C. W. Smith, and J. Watermann (2003), Predicting interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) propagation delay times using the minimum variance technique, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 1026, doi:10.1029/2002JA009405.
Toshifumi Mukai;The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Weygand, James M.; & McPherron, Robert L.
2006-01-01T00:00:00
University of California, Los Angeles
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LEP experiment
https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/geotail/geotail_inst.html
LEP information
LEP experiment
https://www.stp.isas.jaxa.jp/geotail/QL/index.html
LEP quicklook
LEP experiment
https://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/stp/geotail/caveats.html#lep
LEP information
Solar Wind Propagation Information
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/jweygand/htmls/Propagated_SW.html
Solar wind archive at UCLA. This archive provides a list of available data resources and available time ranges.
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IGPP UCLA Geotail LEP Data JMW Processed Archive
http://vmo.igpp.ucla.edu/data1/Weygand/PropagatedSolarWindGSE/weimer/Geotail/lep_lep/
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Geotail Low Energy Particle experiment
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ThermalPlasma
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Time format in data files is: Day Month Year Hour Minute Second (DD MM YYYY HH MM SS.SSS)
Earth.Magnetosheath
Heliosphere.NearEarth
1 min
solar wind
magnetotail
bow shock
magnetopause
plasma data
LEP
Propagated solar wind data
Geotail
Universal Time
Time
Universal Time AFTER Propagation columns from left to right are: day month year hour minute sec in the format of dd mm yyyy hh mm ss.
PT60S
6
Universal Time expressed using a 6-column day, month, year, hour, minute, second representation
Day
1
Day
Month
2
Month
Year
3
Year
Hour
4
Hour
Minute
5
Minute
Second
6
Second
Temporal
Geotail LEP Thermal Speed Weimer Propagated 1 min Resolution Data in GSE Coordiates
Thermal Speed
Weimer propagated Geotail LEP thermal speed in GSE coordinates in units of km/s.
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PT60S
KM/S
Ion
ThermalSpeed
Geotail LEP Density Weimer Propagated 1 min Resolution Data in GSE Coordiates
Density
Weimer propagated density data for Geotail LEP in GSE coordinates in units of number per cubic centimeter.
PT60S
#/cm^-3
Ion
NumberDensity
Geotail LEP Velocity Vector Weimer Propagated 1 min Resolution Data in GSE Coordiates
Velocity Vectors
Weimer propagated Flow vector for Geotail LEP in GSE coordinates in units of km/s.
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PT60S
KM/S
Cartesian
GSE
3
VX-GSE
Component.I
1
pvxgse
VY-GSE
Component.J
2
pvygse
VZ-GSE
Component.K
3
pvzgse
Ion
Velocity
Geotail Spacecraft Weimer Propagated Position Vector Interpolated to 1 min Resolution in GSE Coordiates
Position Vectors
Weimer propagated location of the spacecraft in GSE coordinates in units of Re.
PT60S
Re
Cartesian
GSE
3
X-GSE
Component.I
1
pxgse
Y-GSE
Component.J
2
pygse
Z-GSE
Component.K
3
pzgse
Positional