Energy Balance and Time Dependence of a Magnetotail Electron Diffusion Region

<p>The data sets and python notebook included are for a submitted manuscript to the Journal of Geophysical Review: Space Physics.</p> <p>An IDL save file has also been included which contains&nbsp;variables from a reconstruction of the event in the manuscript.&nbsp; The time variable in tt2000.&nbsp; Other variables are in units of nW/m^3 by default.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br> <br> The purpose of the work is to determine how electromagnetic energy is converted into plasma energy in the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection.&nbsp; Using both spacecraft data and simulations, we investigate how the terms in Poynting&#39;s theorem change as reconnection begins and evolves in time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>