Online system for analyzing currents in the upper ionosphere according to Swarm satellite data

In this paper, we describe the TeslaSwarm online system [http://aleph.gcras.ru/teslaswarm] for visualizing field-aligned currents in the upper ionosphere, using data from Swarm low-orbit satellites. The system provides researchers with a simple and convenient tool for event selection and detailed an...

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Main Authors: Belov I. O., Soloviev A. A., Pilipenko V. A., Dobrovolskiy M. N., Bogoutdinov S. R., Kalinkin K. D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: INFRA-M 2023-12-01
Series:Solar-Terrestrial Physics
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Online Access:https://naukaru.ru/en/nauka/article/65622/view
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Summary:In this paper, we describe the TeslaSwarm online system [http://aleph.gcras.ru/teslaswarm] for visualizing field-aligned currents in the upper ionosphere, using data from Swarm low-orbit satellites. The system provides researchers with a simple and convenient tool for event selection and detailed analysis of currents and electromagnetic fields in the upper ionosphere. The system user can select satellite passages over a given region, visualize the geomagnetic field structure and field-aligned currents, compare the pattern of field-aligned currents with the auroral particle precipitation map, using the OVATION-Prime model, and save the selected parameters in a file in text format. We demonstrate advantages of the developed system over its foreign analogues. In practice, the collection and pre-processing of raw data for experiments make up about 80 % of all work with data. The proposed online system largely saves the user from the most time-consuming work of choosing the required satellite passage segments and calculating the characteristics of interest from raw measurements.
ISSN:2500-0535