DMSP F15/F16/F18: 2011-2014 Binned Spacecraft Electrodynamics and Poynting Flux

9 spacecraft-years of Defense Meteorology Satellite Program measurements from the F15, F16, and F18 spacecraft between 2011 and 2014. Data includes magnetic perturbation, electric field, and ion drift velocity scaled from satellite to ionospheric altitude, organized in equal-area magnetic coordinate bins. L. M. Kilcommons of the University of Colorado Boulder created this dataset using the esabin Python library, and it includes hourly solar wind and geomagnetic activity parameters from NASA OMNIWeb.

Use Cases

• Modeling ionospheric electrodynamics based on scaled magnetic perturbation, electric field, and ion drift velocity data.
• Analyzing geomagnetic activity correlations based on included NASA OMNIWeb solar wind parameters.
• Studying Poynting flux energy transfer in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system using the geomagnetic-main-field-aligned flux data.
• Investigating spatial patterns of space weather events using data binned in magnetic coordinates.

Strengths

• Contains 9 spacecraft-years of data from three DMSP spacecraft (F15, F16, F18).
• Includes multiple electrodynamic parameters (dB, E, V) scaled to a consistent ionospheric altitude.
• Data is organized in equal-area magnetic coordinate bins, facilitating spatial analysis.
• Augmented with hourly NASA OMNIWeb solar wind and geomagnetic activity parameters as attributes.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

University of Colorado Boulder

Collection Method

Created using the esabin Python library from Defense Meteorology Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft measurements.

Time Range

2011-2014

Geography

Global coverage from satellite orbits.