Forecast of the energetic electron environment of the radiation belts
This directory contains the output data sets from the VNC run for the period including the March 17, 2015 (St Patrick's day geomagnetic disturbance), as a zip archive.
There are two runs, one using the fixed L* coupling (directory *_fixed) that assumes L*gso = 6.2, the other using an L* that depends upon Kp (directory *_var).
Each of these sub-directories contains
VNC input files
- Bf.dat - boundary flux scaling parameters (plain text)
- Kp.dat - Kalues of Kp index (plain text)
VNC output files
- OutPSD*.dat - Files containing electron flux PSD from VERB (plain text)
- perpgrid_*.plt - Grid information (plain text)
- radgrid_*.plt - Grid information (plain text)
The data from which the figures showing the variation of L* as various functions of Kp may be found in the file lstar.mat (MATLAB structure). This structure is dimensioned as follows
data(longitude,Kp,date,pitchangle)
where these indices in each dimension correspond to the following values
longitude=0:5:355
kp=[0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7]
date=[2015 3 21; 2015 6 21; 2015 9 21; 2015 12 21]
pitchangle=[10 30 50 70 90]
MATLAB code to access the VNC output data files is available from corresponding author.
Funding
Horizon 2020 637302
UK STFC ST/R000697/1
History
Ethics
- There is no personal data or any that requires ethical approval
Policy
- The data complies with the institution and funders' policies on access and sharing
Sharing and access restrictions
- The data can be shared openly
Data description
- The file formats are open or commonly used
Methodology, headings and units
- Headings and units are explained in the files