IDL Data Structure for Electric Field Data
Summary
A description of the IDL data structure used to store electric field data.
Description
SuperDARN electric field data is derived from the global convection data. The data consists of a regular grid of derived electric field values. Within IDL a structure is used to store the parameters associated with the electric field data.
Electric field parameters data structure EFieldPrm
prm={EFieldPrm, stme: $
{EFieldTime,yr:0, $ ; start year
mo:0, $ ; start month
dy:0, $ ; start day
hr:0, $ ; start hour
mt:0, $ ; start minute
sc:0D}, $ ; start second
etme: $
{EFieldTime,yr:0, $ ; end year
mo:0, $ ; end month
dy:0, $ ; end day
hr:0, $ ; end hour
mt:0, $ ; end minute
sc:0D}, $ ; end second
mlt:0.0, $ ; magnetic local time
mltflg:0B, $ ; position given in MLT not longitude
pflg:0B, $ ; potential value included
vflg:0B} ; velocity measurements included
References
This information is sourced form the RFC: 0025 previously in the RST RFC documentation that was written by R.J. Barnes.
History
2004/11/22 Initial Revision.