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

<p>This dataset serves for the paper &quot;Impacts of multiscale field-aligned currents (FACs) on the ionosphere-thermosphere system: GITM simulation&quot;.</p> <p>&nbsp;The uploaded zip file contains 6 directories, each directory contains 1 CDF file, detailed description for each file are listed as follows:</p> <p><strong>fig1:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>vars: &#39;mlt&#39;, &#39;mlat&#39;, &#39;avg_lg&#39;, &#39;std_lg&#39;, &#39;avg_ms&#39;, &#39;std_ms&#39;, &#39;avg_sm&#39;, &#39;std_sm&#39;</p> <p>avg_lg, std_lg: large-scale mean FAC and FAC variability&nbsp;</p> <p>avg_ms, std_ms: meso-scale mean FAC and FAC variability&nbsp;</p> <p>avg_sm, std_sm: small-scale mean FAC and FAC variability&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>fig2:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>vars: &#39;mlt&#39;, &#39;mlat&#39;, &#39;avg_lg&#39;, &#39;std_lg&#39;, &#39;avg_ms&#39;, &#39;std_ms&#39;, &#39;avg_sm&#39;, &#39;std_sm&#39;</p> <p>avg_lg, std_lg: Magnitudes of the&nbsp;large-scale mean electric field and electric field&nbsp;variability&nbsp;</p> <p>avg_ms, std_ms: Magnitudes of the meso-scale mean electric field and electric field&nbsp;variability&nbsp;</p> <p>avg_sm, std_sm: Magnitudes of the&nbsp;small-scale mean electric field and electric field&nbsp;variability&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>fig3:</strong></p> <p>vars:&nbsp;&#39;fac&#39;, &#39;dBy&#39;</p> <p>fac: FAC along the track</p> <p>dBy: East-westward magnetic perturbation along the same track</p> <p><strong>fig4:</strong></p> <p>vars:&nbsp;&#39;glon&#39;, &#39;glat&#39;, &#39;Emag&#39;, &#39;int_jh&#39;</p> <p>glon, glat: geographic longitude and latitude</p> <p>Emag: electric field magnitude&nbsp;</p> <p>int_jh: height-integrated Joule heating&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>fig6:</strong></p> <p>vars:&nbsp;&#39;glon&#39;, &#39;glat&#39;,&nbsp;&#39;gitm_evar_lg&#39;, &#39;gitm_evar_ms&#39;, &#39;de2_evar_lg&#39;, &#39;de2_evar_ms&#39;</p> <p>glon, glat: geographic longitude and latitude</p> <p>&#39;gitm_evar_lg&#39;, &#39;gitm_evar_ms&#39;: magnitudes of the simulated large-scale and mess-scale electric field variabilities</p> <p>&#39;de2_evar_lg&#39;, &#39;de2_evar_ms&#39;:&nbsp;magnitudes of the large-scale and mess-scale electric field variabilities&nbsp;from the data in geographic coordinates</p> <p><strong>fig7:</strong></p> <p>vars:&nbsp;&#39;glon&#39;, &#39;glat&#39;,&nbsp;&#39;gitm_jh_lg&#39;, &#39;gitm_jh_ms&#39;</p> <p>glon, glat: geographic longitude and latitude</p> <p>&#39;gitm_jh_lg&#39;, &#39;gitm_jh_ms&#39;: Increase of the height-integrated JH related to the large- and mess-scale FAC variabilities&nbsp;</p>