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Cluster Active Archive: Overview
Escoubet, C. P.; Taylor, M. G. G. T.; Laakso, H. +7 more
The four-satellite Cluster mission investigates the small-scale structures and physical processes related to interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheric plasma. The Cluster Active Archive (CAA) (URL: http://caa.estec.esa.int) will contain the entire set of Cluster high-resolution data and other allied products in a standard format an…
PEACE Data in the Cluster Active Archive
Wilson, R. J.; Fazakerley, A. N.; West, M. +4 more
We describe the data products of the Cluster Plasma Electron and Current Experiment (PEACE) instruments which have been produced for the Cluster Active Archive. This article is intended to introduce the PEACE instruments, the measured data and the data products provided through the CAA. We aim to help the researcher to choose the data products mos…
FGM Data Products in the CAA
Balogh, A.; Lucek, E. A.; Carr, C. M. +6 more
Set out in this paper is a description of the magnetic field and supporting data products that the FGM team have generated and submitted to the Cluster Active Archive. A significant amount of effort has been put into the calibration and validation of the magnetic field data products and details of the calibration techniques used to produce these d…
The WHISPER Relaxation Sounder and the CLUSTER Active Archive
Lointier, G.; Décréau, P. M. E.; Facskó, G. +8 more
The Waves of HIgh frequency and Sounder for Probing of Electron density by Relaxation (WHISPER) instrument is part of the Wave Experiment Consortium (WEC) of the CLUSTER mission. With the help of the long double sphere antennae of the Electric Field and Wave (EFW) instrument and the Digital Wave Processor (DWP), it delivers active (sounding) and n…
Mixed Azimuthal Scales of Flux Transfer Events
Fazakerley, A. N.; Lucek, E. A.; Milan, S. E. +2 more
Previous observations have allowed the scale size of flux transfer events (FTEs) to be determined both normal to the magnetopause and in the direction of motion of the FTE, but a key difference between some different models of FTE structure is their azimuthal scale size. Previous ground-based observations of the ionospheric signatures of FTEs indi…
AMDA, Automated Multi-Dataset Analysis: A Web-Based Service Provided by the CDPP
André, N.; Fedorov, A.; Budnik, E. +13 more
We present AMDA (Automated Mutli-Dataset Analysis), a new service recently opened at CDPP. AMDA is a web-based facility for on line analysis of space physics data coming from either its local database or distant ones. This tool allows the user to perform on line classical manipulations such as data visualization, parameter computation or data extr…
The EFW Data in the CAA
André, M.; Khotyaintsev, Y.; Eriksson, A. +1 more
The Electric Field and Waves (EFW) instrument measures the 2D electric field (in the spacecraft spin plane) and spacecraft potential with sampling rates, on some occasions, up to 36,000 samples/s. We present a summary of the CAA data products produced from the EFW measurements. We briefly describe the production pipeline from the raw data to final…
Cluster Ion Spectrometry (CIS) Data in the Cluster Active Archive (CAA)
Dandouras, I.; Kistler, L. M.; Rème, H. +5 more
The Cluster Active Archive (CAA) aims at preserving the four Cluster spacecraft data, so that they are usable in the long-term by the scientific community as well as by the instrument team PIs and Co-Is. This implies that the data are filed together with the descriptive and documentary elements making it possible to select and interpret them. The …
RAPID Products at the Cluster Active Archive
Kronberg, Elena A.; Daly, Patrick W.
The RAPID instrument on board the four Cluster spacecraft delivers 3-D distributions of energetic (≳ 30 keV) ion and electron flux for up to eight energy channels. To make this data set available to the general scientific community, both during the operations phase and beyond the end of the mission, the RAPID Team is delivering processed data to t…
Generation and Validation of Ion Energy Spectra Based on Cluster RAPID and CIS Measurements
Dandouras, Iannis; Kronberg, Elena A.; Daly, Patrick W. +2 more
We present a method to combine spectral information from the Cluster RAPID (Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging) and CIS (Cluster Ion Spectroscopy) instruments. Preliminary results from the magnetotail show that the kappa distribution can fit the ion distributions in the magnetotail, for example in thin plasma sheets during quiet and disturbed…