Data For The Paper "Impacts Of Multiscale Field-Aligned Currents (Facs) On The Ionosphere-Thermosphere System: Gitm Simulation"

This dataset serves for the paper "Impacts of multiscale field-aligned currents (FACs) on the ionosphere-thermosphere system: GITM simulation".

The uploaded zip file contains 6 directories, each directory contains 1 CDF file, detailed description for each file are listed as follows:

<strong>fig1: </strong>

vars: 'mlt', 'mlat', 'avg_lg', 'std_lg', 'avg_ms', 'std_ms', 'avg_sm', 'std_sm'

avg_lg, std_lg: large-scale mean FAC and FAC variability

avg_ms, std_ms: meso-scale mean FAC and FAC variability

avg_sm, std_sm: small-scale mean FAC and FAC variability

<strong>fig2: </strong>

vars: 'mlt', 'mlat', 'avg_lg', 'std_lg', 'avg_ms', 'std_ms', 'avg_sm', 'std_sm'

avg_lg, std_lg: Magnitudes of the large-scale mean electric field and electric field variability

avg_ms, std_ms: Magnitudes of the meso-scale mean electric field and electric field variability

avg_sm, std_sm: Magnitudes of the small-scale mean electric field and electric field variability

<strong>fig3:</strong>

vars: 'fac', 'dBy'

fac: FAC along the track

dBy: East-westward magnetic perturbation along the same track

<strong>fig4:</strong>

vars: 'glon', 'glat', 'Emag', 'int_jh'

glon, glat: geographic longitude and latitude

Emag: electric field magnitude

int_jh: height-integrated Joule heating

<strong>fig6:</strong>

vars: 'glon', 'glat', 'gitm_evar_lg', 'gitm_evar_ms', 'de2_evar_lg', 'de2_evar_ms'

glon, glat: geographic longitude and latitude

'gitm_evar_lg', 'gitm_evar_ms': magnitudes of the simulated large-scale and mess-scale electric field variabilities

'de2_evar_lg', 'de2_evar_ms': magnitudes of the large-scale and mess-scale electric field variabilities from the data in geographic coordinates

<strong>fig7:</strong>

vars: 'glon', 'glat', 'gitm_jh_lg', 'gitm_jh_ms'

glon, glat: geographic longitude and latitude

'gitm_jh_lg', 'gitm_jh_ms': Increase of the height-integrated JH related to the large- and mess-scale FAC variabilities