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SSUSI High-Latitude Products

SSUSI High-Latitude Products. Yongliang Zhang for the SSUSI Team Yongliang Zhang Yongliang.Zhang@jhuapl.edu. SSUSI Auroral Products. Why are there Aurora? Auroras: visible consequence of M-I coupling Many applications: space weather monitoring, sources of input and validation for models

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SSUSI High-Latitude Products

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  1. SSUSI High-Latitude Products YongliangZhang for the SSUSI Team YongliangZhang Yongliang.Zhang@jhuapl.edu

  2. SSUSI Auroral Products • Why are there Aurora? • Auroras: visible consequence of M-I coupling • Many applications: space weather monitoring, sources of input and validation for models • What they are? • How to access them?

  3. List of SSUSI auroral products • Auroral images in five “colors” • 121.6, 130.4, 135.6 nm, LBHS (140-150nm), and LBHL (165-180nm). • Electron energy flux and mean energy • Height integrated conductance • Hemispheric power • HmE and NmE • Equatorward and poleward boundaries • Discrete aurora arcs • Field-aligned aurora mapping • Aurora forecast

  4. Examples of SSUSI auroral imagesN2 LBHS (140-150nm) N2 LBHL(165-180nm)

  5. O 135.6 nm O 130.4 nm

  6. Proton aurora (121.6 nm)

  7. Thin auroral arcs

  8. Assimilation of measured SSUSI NmEand boundary in IRI (Kp =4.3, April 1, 2007, 8:59UT)

  9. How to access SSUSI auroral products? • Go to ssusi.jhuapl.edu • Quick look • Gallery, Google EDR-Auroral • Select SSUSI (f16, f17, f18, f19), year, day, orbit number • Data files • Data, Data products, f16_AUR, select year, date, download NetCDF files from the list • Some Auroral Data is now available in SPDF and CDAweb (search DMSP data) • Questions? • Contact SSUSI team (Paxton, Schaefer, Romeo, Zhang)

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