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Geotail 15-sec magnetic field data, solar wind only

ResourceID
spase://JAXA/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S

Description

Data consist of 15-sec averages of magnetic field magnitude and GSE Cartesian components, from the MGF magnetometer on Geotail. Data are for only the solar wind phases of the Geotail orbit. The Geotail position vector in GSE coordinates is included.

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Version:2.4.1

NumericalData

ResourceID
spase://JAXA/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
Geotail 15-sec magnetic field data, solar wind only
ReleaseDate
2022-07-25 12:34:56.789
RevisionHistory
RevisionEvent
ReleaseDate
2021-03-10 20:13:28
Note
Only known prior ReleaseDate of the metadata
RevisionEvent
ReleaseDate
2022-07-25 12:34:56.789
Note
Updated one AccessURL URL by JMW 2022-06-02, metadata updated to SPASE 2.4.1, reviewed by LFB 20220724
Description

Data consist of 15-sec averages of magnetic field magnitude and GSE Cartesian components, from the MGF magnetometer on Geotail. Data are for only the solar wind phases of the Geotail orbit. The Geotail position vector in GSE coordinates is included.

Acknowledgement
Dr. T. Nagai
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Tsugunobu.Nagai
2.DataProducerspase://SMWG/Person/Natalia.E.Papitashvili
3.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze
InformationURL
Name
Readme file at SPDF
URL
https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/geotail/mgf/mag_sw_15s_ascii/00readme
Description

Details on creation of this data set

PriorIDs
spase://VMO/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S
spase://VSPO/NumericalData/Geotail/MGF/PT15S
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF
Availability
Online
AccessRights
Open
AccessURL
Name
FTPS from SPDF (not with most browsers)
URL
ftps://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/geotail/mgf/mag_sw_15s_ascii/
AccessURL
Name
HTTPS from SPDF
URL
https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/geotail/mgf/mag_sw_15s_ascii/
Description

In CDF via HTTP from SPDF

AccessURL
Name
OMNIWeb-Plus
URL
https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpbrowser/geotail_mag15s.html
Description

FTPBrowser graphical display interface to ASCII data

Format
Text
Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge Principal Investigator T. Nagai, U. Tokyo, and J. King and N. Papitashvili, NASA/GSFC/SPDF, data set producers.
ProcessingLevel
Calibrated
InstrumentIDs
spase://SMWG/Instrument/Geotail/MGF
MeasurementType
MagneticField
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
1995-03-01 00:00:00
StopDate
2000-06-10 00:00:00
Cadence
PT0.32S
ObservedRegion
Heliosphere.NearEarth
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosphere.Magnetotail
Parameter #1
Name
Time
ParameterKey
Column_1, Column_2, Column_3, Column_4, Column_5
Description

Universal time at start of average

Cadence
PT15S
Structure
Size
5
Description

Year, day-of-year, hour, minute, second at start of average

Support
SupportQuantity
Temporal
Parameter #2
Name
Magnetic Field Magnitude
ParameterKey
Column_7
Description

Average magnitude magnitude

Cadence
PT15S
Units
nT
Field
Qualifier
Vector
FieldQuantity
Magnetic
Parameter #3
Name
Magnetic Field Vector
ParameterKey
Column_8, Column_9, Column_10
Description

GSE Cartesian components of magnetic field vector

Cadence
PT15S
Units
nT
CoordinateSystem
CoordinateRepresentation
Cartesian
CoordinateSystemName
GSE
Structure
Size
3
Description

GSE Cartesian components in X,Y,Z sequence

Field
Qualifier
Vector
FieldQuantity
Magnetic
Parameter #4
Name
Spacecraft position vector
ParameterKey
Column_11, Column_12, Column_13
Description

GSE Cartesian components of spacecraft position vector

Cadence
PT15S
Units
Re
CoordinateSystem
CoordinateRepresentation
Cartesian
CoordinateSystemName
GSE
Structure
Size
3
Description

GSE Cartesian components in X,Y,Z sequence

Support
Qualifier
Vector
SupportQuantity
Positional