Electron Moments (ground-computed), EESA Low, Wind 3DP - R. Lin (UC Berkeley)
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Electron Moments (ground-computed), EESA Low, Wind 3DP - R. Lin (UC Berkeley)
| Role | Person | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | PrincipalInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/Robert.P.Lin |
| 2. | PrincipalInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/Stuart.D.Bale |
| 3. | GeneralContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Robert.E.McGuire |
Caveats for the correct use of Wind 3DP datasets
home page at UCB (with plotting and digital data)
In CDF via ftp from SPDF
In CDF via HTTP from SPDF
Number of milliseconds since CDF_EPOCH: 0000-01-01T00:00:00.000.
Time since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z in seconds
Spacecraft potential estimated from electron ONLY measurements
Current contribution to the spacecraft from thermal electrons
magnetic field vector interpolated (linearly) to the time of the EESA Low distribution, in GSE cartesian components
Electron number density
Average electron temperature
lectron most probable speed
electron Flow Velocity, GSE cartesian
electron total number flux - cartesian GSE
electron Pressure Tensor calculated in the GSE coordinate basis. The elements correspond to, in the following order: XX, YY, ZZ, XY, XZ, YZ
electron Momentum Flux Tensor calculated in the GSE coordinate basis. The elements correspond to, in the following order: XX, YY, ZZ, XY, XZ, YZ
electron Temperature eigenvalues after diagonalization of tensor, calculated in the GSE coordinate basis. The elements correspond to: XX, YY, ZZ
ZZ-component of the eigenvectors associated with the eigen values from the diagonalized .T3 (i.e., the eigenvector associated with the Z eigen value from .T3 or .T3[2])
Spherical coordinate latitude of SYMM
Spherical coordinate longitude of SYMM
angle between the ZZ-component of the eigenvectors associated with the eigen values from the diagonalized .T3 and the magnetic field vector (i.e., .MAGF vector)
electron temperature tensor rotated into a field-aligned coordinate basis and then taking the diagonal elements only
electron energy range used to compute the moments
electron mass of species. Units are eV/c^2, where c = speed of light in units of km/s. This results is a value of ~5.68566 x 10^(-6) for electrons and ~0.0104389 for protons.
electron Validity flag indicating whether data point is considered valid (0=invalid, 1=valid)
electron bulk flow speed
electron bulk flow velocity; latitude/theta
electron bulk flow velocity; longitude/phi