The variable source of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: data

<p>This dataset contains the files supporting the paper &quot;The variable source of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm&quot; published in Nature Communications.&nbsp; Included are the following:</p> <p>1) LEPI-HE2 contains cdf files&nbsp;of the He++ data of the LEPI instrument in the same format as the other species files available from the ERG science center (https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/)</p> <p>2)&nbsp; WIND_SWE contains idl save sets with the results of the fits to the WIND/SWE data using two proton peaks and an alpha peak.&nbsp; The data is in the structure ppa.fits, with variable descriptions in ppa.pnames and ppa.pdesc.</p> <p>3)&nbsp; The data that is plotted in Figures 3, 4, and 6.&nbsp; These are in tplot save formats that can be read with the spedas software (<a>http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/software.shtml</a>).&nbsp; IDL spedas programs (.pro) to read the data files and recreate the figures are also included.</p>