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| 1 |
+
O M N I 2 DATA SET
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The /data/omni/low_res_omni/ directory contains the hourly mean values of
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the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and solar wind plasma parameters
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| 5 |
+
measured by various spacecraft near the Earth's orbit, as well as
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geomagnetic and solar activity indices, and energetic proton fluxes
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| 7 |
+
known as OMNI2 data.
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| 8 |
+
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+
OMNI2 was created at NSSDC in 2003 as a successor to the OMNI data set
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| 10 |
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first created in the mid-1970's.
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+
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Time spans of various parameters are periodically extended.
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| 13 |
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The documentation file at
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| 14 |
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https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/ow_data.html
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+
gives the current time spans of the following parameter groups:
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| 16 |
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Magnetic field
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| 17 |
+
Plasma
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| 18 |
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Kp index and sunspot number
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| 19 |
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AE, AL,AU index
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| 20 |
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Provisional AE, AL, AU index
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| 21 |
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Quick look AE, AL, AU index
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| 22 |
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Dst index
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| 23 |
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Provisional Dst index
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| 24 |
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Quick look Dst
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| 25 |
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Energetic proton fluxes
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ap-index and f10.7_index
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PC(N) index
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+
---------------
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Note: see "extended" directoty for more parameters.
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----------------------------------------------
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Data gaps were filled with dummy numbers for the missing hours or entire
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| 33 |
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days to make all files of equal length. The character '9' is used to
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fill all fields for missing data according to their format, e.g.
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' 9999.9' for a field with the FORTRAN format F7.1. Note that format F7.1
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below really means (1X,F6.1),etc.
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This directory includes two types of the ASCII flat files: OMNI2_YYYY.DAT,
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| 39 |
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and OMNI_MYYYY.DAT where YYYY is a given year. The OMNI2_YYYY.DAT files
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| 40 |
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contain the original data where the IMF and solar wind velocity vectors
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| 41 |
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are presented in GSE and, for IMF, GSM coordinate systems. The modified
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| 42 |
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OMNI_MYYYY.DAT files have been created from these files with reformatting
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| 43 |
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for COHOWeb compatibility and with the IMF and velocity
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| 44 |
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vectors having been transformed to RTN coordinate system.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Daily and 27-day Averages files: omni_01_av.dat; omni_27_av.dat; omni_m_daily.dat
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| 49 |
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| 50 |
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We have computed daily and 27-day average values for all the OMNI parameters in the
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| 51 |
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OMNI2_YYYY.dat files, and we have computed daily averages from the OMNI_MYYYY.dat files.
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| 52 |
+
We have made these lower resolution averages also accessible via OMNIWeb and via anon/ftp.
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| 53 |
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Only arithmetic averaging was done. (No averaging of logarithms.) No threshold numbers
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| 54 |
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of finer scale points were required.
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| 55 |
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The daily averages are taken over OMNI's basic hourly values, and the 27-
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| 58 |
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day averages are taken over the daily averages. The corresponding standard
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| 59 |
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deviations relate only to these averagings and do not capture the
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| 60 |
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variances in the higher resolution data.
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The 27-day averages are for discrete Bartels rotation numbers. Thus the
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first such average fully within 1999 spans January 9 through February 4.
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The record format for the daily and 27-day averages is the same as for the
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hourly data, although certain fields have special meanings.
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The time words (year, day, hour) correspond to the first hour of the
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average.
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The ID's for the magnetic field and plasma spacecraft are set to zero,
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since the daily and 27-day averages frequently involve data from multiple
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spacecraft.
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The numbers of fine scale points in the plasma and field averages are
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| 76 |
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counts of (1) hourly values contributing to daily averages or (2) daily
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| 77 |
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values contributing to 27-day averages. NOTE THAT WE HAVE NOT REQUIRED ANY
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MINIMUM NUMBER OF POINTS TO COMPUTE AN AVERAGE. For cases where there was
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| 79 |
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only one point, the standard deviations were set to zero.
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Kp was treated specially. After determining daily or 27-averages from
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basic values such as 10 (1), 13 (1+), 17 (2-), 20 (2), the average was
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rounded to the nearest "standard value" of Kp (i.e., 10, 13, 17, 20, ...).
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| 84 |
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For cases where the average was exactly in the middle between standard
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values (e.g., 15), the lower standard value (13 in this case) was used.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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OMNI2_YYYY.DAT FORMAT DESCRIPTION
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WORD FORMAT Fill Value MEANING UNITS/COMMENTS
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1 I4 Year 1963, 1964, etc.
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2 I4 Decimal Day January 1 = Day 1
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3 I3 Hour 0, 1,...,23
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4 I5 9999 Bartels rotation number
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5 I3 99 ID for IMF spacecraft See table
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6 I3 99 ID for SW plasma spacecraft See table
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7 I4 999 # of points in the IMF averages
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8 I4 999 # of points in the plasma averages
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9 F6.1 999.9 Field Magnitude Average |B| 1/N SUM |B|, nT
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10 F6.1 999.9 Magnitude of Average Field Vector sqrt(Bx^2+By^2+Bz^2)
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11 F6.1 999.9 Lat.Angle of Aver. Field Vector Degrees (GSE coords)
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12 F6.1 999.9 Long.Angle of Aver.Field Vector Degrees (GSE coords)
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13 F6.1 999.9 Bx GSE, GSM nT
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14 F6.1 999.9 By GSE nT
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15 F6.1 999.9 Bz GSE nT
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16 F6.1 999.9 By GSM nT
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17 F6 1 999.9 Bz GSM nT
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see http://geo.phys.spbu.ru/~tsyganenko/Geopack-2008.html
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developed by Drs. Nikolai Tsyganenko.
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18 F6.1 999.9 sigma|B| RMS Standard Deviation in average
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magnitude (word 10), nT
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19 F6.1 999.9 sigma B RMS Standard Deviation in field
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vector, nT (**)
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20 F6.1 999.9 sigma Bx RMS Standard Deviation in GSE
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X-component average, nT
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21 F6.1 999.9 sigma By RMS Standard Deviation in GSE
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Y-component average, nT
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22 F6.1 999.9 sigma Bz RMS Standard Deviation in GSE
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Z-component average, nT
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23 F9.0 9999999. Proton temperature Degrees, K
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24 F6.1 999.9 Proton Density N/cm^3
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25 F6.0 9999. Plasma (Flow) speed km/s
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26 F6.1 999.9 Plasma Flow Long. Angle Degrees, quasi-GSE*
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27 F6.1 999.9 Plasma Flow Lat. Angle Degrees, GSE*
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28 F6.3 9.999 Na/Np Alpha/Proton ratio
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29 F6.2 99.99 Flow Pressure P (nPa) = (1.67/10**6) * Np*V**2 * (1+ 4*Na/Np)
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for hours with non-fill Na/Np ratios and
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P (nPa) = (2.0/10**6) * Np*V**2
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for hours with fill values for Na/Np
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30 F9.0 9999999. sigma T Degrees, K
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31 F6.1 999.9 sigma N N/cm^3
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32 F6.0 9999. sigma V km/s
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33 F6.1 999.9 sigma phi V Degrees
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34 F6.1 999.9 sigma theta V Degrees
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35 F6.3 9.999 sigma-Na/Np
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36 F7.2 999.99 Electric field -[V(km/s) * Bz (nT; GSM)] * 10**-3. (mV/m)
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37 F7.2 999.99 Plasma beta Beta = [(T*4.16/10**5) + 5.34] * Np / B**2
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38 F6.1 999.9 Alfven mach number Ma = (V * Np**0.5) / 20 * B
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+
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39 I3 99 Kp Planetary Geomagnetic Activity Index
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(e.g. 3+ = 33, 6- = 57, 4 = 40, etc.)
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40 I4 999 R Sunspot number (new version 2)
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41 I6 99999 DST Index nT, from Kyoto
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42 I5 9999 AE-index nT, from Kyoto
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43 F10.2 999999.99 Proton flux number/cmsq sec sr >1 Mev
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44 F9.2 99999.99 Proton flux number/cmsq sec sr >2 Mev
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+
45 F9.2 99999.99 Proton flux number/cmsq sec sr >4 Mev
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+
46 F9.2 99999.99 Proton flux number/cmsq sec sr >10 Mev
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47 F9.2 99999.99 Proton flux number/cmsq sec sr >30 Mev
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+
48 F9.2 99999.99 Proton flux number/cmsq sec sr >60 Mev
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49 I3 0 Flag(***) (-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6)
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+
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50 I4 999 ap-index nT
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51 F6.1 999.9 f10.7_index ( sfu = 10-22W.m-2.Hz-1)
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+
52 F6.1 999.9 PC(N) index
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+
53 I6 99999 AL-index, from Kyoto nT
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54 I6 99999 AU-index, from Kyoto nT
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55 F5.1 99.9 Magnetosonic mach number= = V/Magnetosonic_speed
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Magnetosonic speed = [(sound speed)**2 + (Alfv speed)**2]**0.5
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The Alfven speed = 20. * B / N**0.5
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The sound speed = 0.12 * [T + 1.28*10**5]**0.5
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About Magnetosonic speed check http://ftpbrowser.gsfc.nasa.gov/bow_derivation1.html also
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C O M M E N T S
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(*) Quasi-GSE for the flow longitude angle means the angle increases from zero
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to positive values as the flow changes from being aligned along the -X(GSE)
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axis towards the +Y(GSE) axis. The flow longitude angle is positive for
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flow from west of the sun, towards +Y(GSE).
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The flow latitude angle is positive for flow from south of the sun,
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towards +Z(GSE)
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(**) - sigma B is sqrt((sigma Bx)^2 + (sigma By)^2 +(sigma Bz)^2)
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(***) - If the flag is 0 there are no Proton Flux data, or all of the
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Proton Flux data are contaminated by the magnetospheric events
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If the flag is 1 then the channels >1,>2,>4,>10,>30 Mev were
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judged to have magnetospheric `contamination'
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If the flag is 2 then the channels >1,>2,>4,>10 Mev were judged
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to have magnetospheric `contamination'
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If the flag is 3 then the channels>1,>2,>4 Mev were judged to
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have magnetospheric `contamination'
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If the flag is 4 then the channels >1,>2 Mev were judged to have
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magnetospheric `contamination'
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If the flag is 5 then the channels >1 Mev channels were judged to
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have magnetospheric `contamination'
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If the flag is 6 then no channel was judged to have magnetospheric
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`contamination'
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If the flag is -1 then data were not checked for magnetospheric
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contamination; this is relevant after 1988/306.
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+
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+
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+
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TABLE: SPACECRAFT IDENTIFIERS
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+
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+
Spacecraft Name Spacecraft ID
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+
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IMP 1 (Explorer 18) 18
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| 220 |
+
IMP 3 (Explorer 28) 28
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| 221 |
+
IMP 4 (Explorer 34) 34
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| 222 |
+
IMP 5 (Explorer 41) 41
|
| 223 |
+
IMP 6 (Explorer 43) 43
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| 224 |
+
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| 225 |
+
IMP 7 (Explorer 47) 47 MAG and Plasma/MIT
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| 226 |
+
IMP 7 (Explorer 47) 44 Plasma/LANL
|
| 227 |
+
|
| 228 |
+
IMP 8 (Explorer 50) 50 MAG and Plasma/MIT
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| 229 |
+
IMP 8 (Explorer 50) 45 Plasma/LANL
|
| 230 |
+
|
| 231 |
+
AIMP 1 (Explorer 33) 33
|
| 232 |
+
AIMP 2 (Explorer 35) 35
|
| 233 |
+
HEOS 1 and HEOS 2 1
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| 234 |
+
VELA 3 3
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| 235 |
+
OGO 5 5
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| 236 |
+
Merged LANL VELA Speed Data (July 1964 - March 1971) 97
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| 237 |
+
Merged LANL IMP T,N,V (Including all IMP 8 LANL Plasma) 98
|
| 238 |
+
ISEE 1 11
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| 239 |
+
ISEE 2 12
|
| 240 |
+
ISEE 3 13
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| 241 |
+
PROGNOZ 10 10
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| 242 |
+
WIND 51 -mag, plasma_KP; 52-Plasma_definitive
|
| 243 |
+
ACE 71
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| 244 |
+
Geotail 60
|
| 245 |
+
No spacecraft 99
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| 246 |
+
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| 247 |
+
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+
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+
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| 250 |
+
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| 251 |
+
OMNI_MYYYY.DAT FORMAT DESCRIPTION
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| 252 |
+
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| 253 |
+
Logical record = 82 characters + CR/LF
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| 254 |
+
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| 255 |
+
WORD FORMAT FILL Value MEANING UNITS/COMMENTS
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| 256 |
+
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| 257 |
+
1 I4 Year 1963, 1964, 1965, etc.
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| 258 |
+
2 I4 Decimal Day January 1 = Day 1
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| 259 |
+
3 I3 Hour 0,1,...,23
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| 260 |
+
4 F7.1 9999.9 Heliographic Inertial Latitude Degrees, +/-90
|
| 261 |
+
of the Earth
|
| 262 |
+
5 F7.1 9999.9 Heliographic Inertial Longitude Degrees, 0-360
|
| 263 |
+
of the Earth
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| 264 |
+
6 F6.1 999.9 BR RTN nanoteslas
|
| 265 |
+
7 F6.1 999.9 BT RTN nanoteslas
|
| 266 |
+
8 F6.1 999.9 BN RTN nanoteslas
|
| 267 |
+
9 F6.1 999.9 Field Magnitude Average |B 1/N SUM |B|, nT
|
| 268 |
+
10 F6.0 9999. Bulk Flow speed km/s
|
| 269 |
+
11 F6.1 999.9 THETA - elevation angle Degrees
|
| 270 |
+
of the velocity vector (RTN)
|
| 271 |
+
12 F6.1 999.9 PHI- azimuth angle Degrees
|
| 272 |
+
of the velocity vector (RTN)
|
| 273 |
+
13 F6.1 999.9 Proton Density N/cm^3
|
| 274 |
+
14 F9.0 9999999. Temperature Degrees, K
|
| 275 |
+
|
| 276 |
+
|
| 277 |
+
DESCRIPTION OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS
|
| 278 |
+
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| 279 |
+
The Heliographic Inertial (HGI) coordinates are Sun-centered and inertially
|
| 280 |
+
fixed with respect to an X-axis directed along the intersection line of the
|
| 281 |
+
ecliptic and solar equatorial planes. The solar equator plane is inclined
|
| 282 |
+
at 7.25 degrees from the ecliptic. This direction was towards ecliptic
|
| 283 |
+
longitude of 74.367 degrees on 1 January 1900 at 1200 UT; because of
|
| 284 |
+
precession of the celestial equator, this longitude increases by 1.4
|
| 285 |
+
degrees/century. The Z axis is directed perpendicular and northward from
|
| 286 |
+
the solar equator, and the Y-axis completes the right-handed set. This
|
| 287 |
+
system differs from the usual heliographic coordinates (e.g. Carrington
|
| 288 |
+
longitudes) which are fixed in the frame of the rotating Sun.
|
| 289 |
+
|
| 290 |
+
The RTN system is fixed at a spacecraft (or the planet). The R axis
|
| 291 |
+
is directed radially away from the Sun, the T axis is the cross product of
|
| 292 |
+
the solar rotation axis and the R axis, and the N axis is the cross
|
| 293 |
+
product of the R and T axes. At zero heliographic latitude, when the
|
| 294 |
+
spacecraft is in the solar equatorial plane, the N and solar rotation axes
|
| 295 |
+
are parallel.
|
| 296 |
+
|
| 297 |
+
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| 298 |
+
Convention for Latitude and Longitude Angles
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| 299 |
+
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|
| 300 |
+
|
| 301 |
+
Latitude and longitude angles of solar wind plasma flow are generally
|
| 302 |
+
measured from the radius vector away from the Sun. In all cases, latitude
|
| 303 |
+
angles are positive for north-going flow. The flow longitude angles have
|
| 304 |
+
been treated differently for the near-Earth data, i.e. the OMNI, and for
|
| 305 |
+
the deep space data. The flow is positive for the near-Earth data when
|
| 306 |
+
coming from the right side of the Sun as viewed from the Earth, i.e.
|
| 307 |
+
flowing toward +Y from -X GSE or opposite to the direction of planetary
|
| 308 |
+
motion. On the other hand, the flow longitudes for the deep space spacecraft
|
| 309 |
+
use the opposite sign convection, i.e. positive for flow in the +T direction
|
| 310 |
+
in the RTN system.
|
| 311 |
+
|
| 312 |
+
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+
Related data and directories:
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+
SPDF Data and Orbits Services <http://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/>
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+
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+
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+
Acknowledgement:
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| 318 |
+
|
| 319 |
+
Use of these data in publications should be accompanied by
|
| 320 |
+
acknowledgements of the
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| 321 |
+
Space Physics Data Facility(SPDF) and
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+
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+
SPDF Contact: Natalia Papitashvili <Natalia.E.Papitashvili@nasa.gov>
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+
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+
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+
Authorizing NASA Official: R.M. Candey, Head, SPDF, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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+
e-mail: Robert.m.candey@nasa.gov
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