Geotail Comprehensive Plasma Instrumentation (CPI) data Weimer Propagated 60 s Resolution in GSM Coordinates

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Geotail Weimer propagated solar wind data and linearly interpolated to have the measurements on the minute at 60 s resolution CPI data in GSM 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.

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Name Format Description Link
21 https://doi.org/10.21978/p8ts6f
21 geotail_inst.html https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/geotail/geotail_inst.html
5 http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/cpi/
21 Propagated_SW.html http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/jweygand/htmls/Propagated_SW.html
21 https://doi.org/10.21978/p8ts6f
5 http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/cpi/
21 geotail_inst.html https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/geotail/geotail_inst.html
21 Propagated_SW.html http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/jweygand/htmls/Propagated_SW.html

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  • bow-shock
  • propagated-solar-wind-data
  • magnetotail
  • thermalplasma-1-min
  • plasma-data
  • solar-wind
  • cpi
  • magnetopause
  • geotail

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