SWICS/MASS/STICS (SMS) Instrument Package

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Gloeckler, G. and SMS Team

Publication_Date: 1994

Title: SWICS/MASS/STICS (SMS) Instrument Package

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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: College Park, MD

Publisher: University of Maryland

Other_Citation_Details:

Online_Linkage: http://space.umd.edu/wind/sms.html

Description:

Abstract:

The main purpose of the Wind spacecraft is to measure the incoming solar wind, magnetic fields and particles, although early on it will also observe the Earth's foreshock region. Wind, together with Geotail, Polar, SOHO, and Cluster projects, constitute a cooperative scientific satellite project designated the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program which aims at gaining improved understanding of the physics of solar terrestrial relations. The SWICS/MASS/STICS (SMS) instrument package consists of measurements from the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS), the High MASS Resolution Spectrometer (MASS) and the SupraThermal Ion Composition Spectrometer (STICS) to study the following issues: - solar abundances - solar wind acceleration - physical processes in the solar atmosphere - physical properties of the lower corona - solar wind kinetic properties - production of suprathermal ions - interplanetary acceleration mechanisms - pick-up and acceleration processes of interstellar and lunar neutrals SWICS data consists of: - alpha velocity - C/O abundance - C and O ionization temperature STICS data consists of: - alpha velocity - rates (counts/spin) - proton and alpha matrix rates (counts/spin) - He+ and O+ matrix rates (counts/spin) SMS data are available from UMD http://space.umd.edu/wind/Data.html and from the Polar-Wind-Geotail (PWG) Data Archive (ftp://pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/00readme.html) and at the NSSDC CDAWeb (http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdaweb/)

Purpose:

Not Available

Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: See: http://space.umd.edu/wind/biblio.html

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Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19941101

Ending_Date: Unknown

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: In Work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: Not Available

East_Bounding_Coordinate: Not Available

North_Bounding_Coordinate: Not Available

South_Bounding_Coordinate: Not Available

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD PLATFORM

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD INSTRUMENT

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: PROJECT

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO TOPIC CATEGORY

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: DATA SET LANGUAGE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX > ALPHA PARTICLE FLUX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX > ION FLUX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE PROPERTIES > PARTICLE DENSITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE PROPERTIES > PARTICLE SPEED

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE PROPERTIES > PARTICLE TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX > PROTON FLUX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ACTIVITY > CORONA

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX > HEAVY NUCLEI FLUX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS > ION CHEMISTRY/IONIZATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS > SOLAR WIND

Theme_Keyword: WIND

Theme_Keyword: SWICS > SOLAR WIND ION COMPOSITION SPECTROMETER

Theme_Keyword: SMS > SWICS/MASS/STICS INSTRUMENT

Theme_Keyword: MASS > HIGH MASS RESOLUTION SPECTROMETER

Theme_Keyword: STICS > SUPRATHERMAL ION COMPOSITION SPECTROMETER

Theme_Keyword: ISTP > INTERNATIONAL SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS PROGRAM

Theme_Keyword: Isotopic Compositon

Theme_Keyword: Solar Wind Ions

Theme_Keyword: Bow Shock

Theme_Keyword: Elemental Composition

Theme_Keyword: Suprathermal Ions

Theme_Keyword: He+

Theme_Keyword: O+

Theme_Keyword: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: SPACE > SOLAR REGION > CORONA

Place_Keyword: SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > HIGH LATITUDE MAGNETOSPHERE

Place_Keyword: SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > INNER MAGNETOSPHERE

Place_Keyword: SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > MAGNETOSPHERE (OTHER)

Place_Keyword: SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > MAGNETOTAIL

Place_Keyword: SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > BOW SHOCK

Place_Keyword: SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > MAGNETOPAUSE

Access_Constraints: Not Available

Use_Constraints:

Not Available

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GEORGE GLOECKLER

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Space Physics Group

Address: University of Maryland

Address: Department of Physics

City: Collge Park

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20742

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-405-6207

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Not Available

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Not Available

Completeness_Report:

Not Available

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Process_Description:

Not Available

Process_Date: Unknown

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NASA/GSFC/SSDOO/NSSDC > National Space Science Data Center, Space Science Data Operation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Contact_Person: NSSDC USER SUPPORT OFFICE

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: National Space Science Data Center

Address: NSSDC/Code 633.4

Address: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

City: Greenbelt

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20771

Country: USA

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nssdc-request@lists.nasa.gov

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NASA/GSFC/SED/HSD/GPL/PWG > Polar, Wind, Geotail Project, Geospace Physics Lab, Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, Heliophysics Science Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Contact_Person: BARBARA GILES

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: NASA Headquarters

Address: 300 E ST SW

City: Washington

State_or_Province: DC

Postal_Code: 20771

Country: USA

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: barbara.giles@nasa.gov

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: UMD/PD/SPG/WIND > WIND, Space Physics Group, Physics Department, University of Maryland

Contact_Person: GEORGE GLOECKLER

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Space Physics Group

Address: University of Maryland

Address: Department of Physics

City: Collge Park

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20742

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-405-6207

Resource_Description: WIND_SMS

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: CDF, ascii, images

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://space.umd.edu/wind/sms.html

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?...

Access_Instructions:

Access to SMS WIND data from NSSDC (SWICS only)

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdaweb/

Access_Instructions:

WIND Data on NSSDCs CDAWeb

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

ftp://pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/compressed/wi/sms/...

Access_Instructions:

FTP access to commpressed SMS WIND data at PWG

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

ftp://pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/uncompressed/wi/sm...

Access_Instructions:

FTP access to uncompressed SMS WIND data at PWG

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://space.umd.edu/wind/Data.html

Access_Instructions:

Access to SMS data from UMD (SWICS and STICS)

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wind.shtml

Access_Instructions:

WIND Project Home Page

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind/

Access_Instructions:

WIND Project Home Page at ISTP

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://space.umd.edu/wind/sms.html

Access_Instructions:

Additional information on SMS from UMD

Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20050328

Metadata_Review_Date: 20050801

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GCMD User Support Office

Contact_Organization: NASA Global Change Master Directory

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Not Available

City: Lanham

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20706

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: Not Available

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gcmduso@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time