Geotail Weimer propagated solar wind data using LEP and linearly interpolated time delay, cosine angle, and goodness information of propagated data at 1 min Resolution. 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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Geotail Weimer propagated solar wind data using LEP and linearly interpolated time delay, cosine angle, and goodness information of propagated data at 1 min Resolution. 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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Solar wind archive at UCLA. This archive provides a list of available data resources and available time ranges.
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.
Universal Time expressed using a 6-column day, month, year, hour, minute, second representation
Time of propagation from Geotail using LEP spacecraft to the nominal bow shock position. This time is derived from the normal direction, which is determined by the magnetic field, the position of the spacecraft relative to the nominal bow shock, and the velocity vector. See Weimer et al. [2003], JGR, v108, p1026.
Geotail using LEP Weimer propagation cosine angles of the normal to the phase front for propagation. These angles are derived from the normal direction of the magnetic field phase fronts. See Weimer et al. [2003], JGR, v108, p1026.
This flag indicates if the pseudo minimum variance direction was well determined. -1 = bad. 0 = good. This flag is determined by the requirements for a good pseudo minimum variance direction, which derived from the magnetic field phase fronts. See Weimer et al. [2003], JGR, v108, p1026.