RFC: 0024
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| IDL Data Structure for Convection Map data | |||
Author | |||
| R.J.Barnes | |||
Summary | |||
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A description of the IDL data structure used to store convection map data. | |||
Description | |||
1. IntroductionSuperDARN Convection map data consists of a superset of the gridded data. Within IDL four structures are used to store the convection map data. 2. Convection map parameters data structure
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prm={CnvMapPrm, stme: $
{CnvMapTime,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: $
{CnvMapTime,yr:0, $ ; end year
mo:0, $ ; end month
dy:0, $ ; end day
hr:0, $ ; end hour
mt:0, $ ; end minute
sc:0D}, $ ; end second
stnum: 0L, $ ; number of contributing stations
vcnum: 0L, $ ; number of vectors
xtd:0 $ ; extended format flag
major_rev:0, $ ; major revision number
minor_rev:0, $ ; minor revision number
source: '', $ ; source of convection map
modnum: 0L, $ ; number of model points
doping_level: 0, $ ; model doping level
model_wt: 0, $ ; model weighting
error_wt: 0, $ ; error weighting
imf_flag: 0, $ ; IMF availability flag
imf_delay: 0, $ ; IMF delay in minutes
Bx: 0.0D, $ ; IMF Bx component
By: 0.0D, $ ; IMF By component
Bz: 0.0D, $ ; IMF Bz component
imf_model: strarr(2), $ ; statistical model
hemisphere: 0, $ ; hemisphere flag
fit_order: 0, $ ; order of fit
latmin: 0.0, $ ; lower latitude limit
coefnum: 0L, $ ; number of coefficients
chi_sqr: 0.0D, $ ; true chi-squared error
chi_sqr_dat: 0.0D, $ ; chi-squared error from data
rms_err: 0.0D, $ ; RMS error
lon_shft: 0.0, $ ; longitudinal pole shift
lat_shft: 0.0, $ ; latitudinal pole shift
mlt: {CnvMapMLT,st:0.0D, $ ; MLT at start of record
ed:0.0D, $ ; MLT at end of record
av:0.0D}, $ ; MLT in middle of record
pot_drop:0.0D, $ ; cross-polar cap potential drop
pot_drop_err:0.0D, $ ; cross-polar cap potential drop error
pot_max:0.0D, $ ; potential maximum
pot_max_err:0.0D, $ ; potential maximum error
pot_min:0.0D, $ ; potential minimum
pot_min_err:0.0D, $ ; potential minimum error
bndnum: 0L $ ; model vectors
}
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3. Convection map boundary data structure CnvMapBnd
bvec={CnvMapBND, lat:0.0, $ ; boundary latitude
lon:0.0} ; boundary longitude
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References
RFC #0018
RFC #0023