Input Files & Parameters Generation

Input Data File for Magnetosphere Models:

Generate input data file for your Runs on Request using:

• ACE Level 2 SW data


• ACE Real Time SW data (Note: Daily coverage has been incomplete since DSCOVR became operational in July 20, 2017)
• Description of ACE Data Levels
• Guidelines for acknowledging your use of ACE data


• DSCOVR Real Time SW data (SWPC Solar Wind data stream since July 20, 2016; may contain data from ACE)


• DSCOVR L2 SW data


• WIND SW data


• OMNI SW data

Other Input Parameters:

Download Radio Flux F10.7 cm

Parameters for ENLIL cone model:

Tools to generate CME parameters for ENLIL/cone model runs

CCMC Space Weather CME analysis tool (developed by Antti Pulkkinen):

• Stereoscopic CME Analysis Tool "StereoCAT"
• CME Analysis Tool Tutorial (PDF)
• CCMC Tutorial Part 1: CME Analysis with StereoCAT for Space Weather
• CCMC Tutorial Part 2: CME Analysis with StereoCAT for Space Weather: Limitations
• CCMC Tutorial Handout for CME analysis with StereoCAT
• Using STEREO Analysis Tool for CME parameter derivation (CUA video tutorial)
• Example Coronal Mass Ejection Analysis Process (CUA video tutorial)
• Reference describing alogirthm: doi:10.1007/s11207-015-0692-1

CME analysis tools available in solarsoft:

• GCS (NRL solarsoft package, Thernisien et al. 2006)
• SATPLOT, ftp://sohoftp.nascom.nasa.gov/solarsoft/stereo/secchi/idl/jpl/satplot/SATPLOT_User_Guide.pdf (solarsoft under SECCHI instrument tree, see e.g. Möstl et al. 2014)
  also see NRL's JMAP how-to guide
• SCC_MEASURE (solarsoft under SECCHI instrument tree, see e.g.Thompson et al. 2014)
  
• SWPC_CAT (solarsoft package, Millward et al. 2013)
  also see SWPC CAT Analysis Procedure handout from CCMC tutorial
   
• CDPP/Propagation tool

Other Helpful Links

ICME catalogs

• HELCATS ICME catalog
• ISEST master CME list and GMU list
• Lan Jian: Level 3 Results of STEREO IMPACT/PLASTIC - ICMEs, SIRs, SEPs
• Lan Jian: Level 3 Results of Wind and ACE - ICMEs, SIRs
• Richardson/Cane Near-Earth Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Since January 1996
• STEP Group @ USTC: ICME list since 1996
• STEP Group @ USTC: A list of full halo CMEs with de-projected parameters and associated ICMEs since 2007 March
• RSSI list
• Table of ICMEs at multiple spacecraft
• Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla: Wind ICME list
• Winslow et al. (2015), Interplanetary coronal mass ejections from MESSENGER orbital observations at Mercury. doi:10.1002/2015JA021200 (spreadsheet)

CME Catalogs:

• ARTEMIS Catalog
• DONKI Catalog
• HELCATS Catalogs
• JHU APL COR2 Catalog
• CACTUS LASCO and STEREO COR2 Catalogs
• CORIMP CME Catalog
• Soojeong Jang's Catalog of 3D parameters for front-side partial halo CMEs from 2009 to 2013
• SEEDS Catalog
• SOHO LASCO CDAW Catalog
• SOHO LASCO CME Lists
• STEREO SECCHI/COR1 Catalog
  Also see event lists at the STEREO Science Center.