Data for "Impact of the Out-of-Plane Flow Shear on Magnetic Reconnection at the Flanks of Earth's Magnetopause"

Data for Figures 3-8 in the paper (data for Figures 5 has been updated on 2024-09-20). The data is compatible with all data-analysis software. Here are the guidelines for reading and visualizing the data:

(1) The filenames "noshear", "MA0p7", and "MA2p3" correspond to the simulation runs with no flow shear, Mach number M_A=0.7 flow shear, and M_A=2.3 flow shear.

(2) The "upper" and "lower" mean upper and lower current sheet, corresponding to dusk-side and dawn-side reconnection respectively. For the "noshear" case, only the "upper" is considered.

(3) Each data file (*.dat) is written in ASCII format and has multiple columns. The first row is the header.

The first column is always the x-coordinates of the figure. 

For the line plots, all columns starting from the second column are the y-coordinates for different variables. The variables names can be found at the header. 

For the 2D image plots, the second column is the y-coordinates, and the third column is the value of the variable at a given (x,y) location. 

(4) The files "fig4_*_field_*.dat" are the magnetic potential in the x-y domain. The contour of this potential gives the in-plane field line configurations.