Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:09:33 -0700 (PDT) From: AGU newsletter editor Message-Id: <200009181409.HAA02172@cybele.igpp.ucla.edu> To: agu_spa@igpp.ucla.edu Subject: SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume VII, Issue 97 ------------------------------------------------------ Ulysses/SWICS Composition Data Available on the Web ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rudolf von Steiger Dear colleague In response to many requests we now provide a new data product with solar wind composition data of the Ulysses/SWICS instrument. The SWICS archives are available at the Ulysses website at ESTEC, http://helio.estec.esa.nl/ulysses/, or directly at http://helio.estec.esa.nl/ulysses/Ftp/Swics/Data/. There are two level-2 products, described under User Notes and in README.TXT: 1. Kinetic properties (density, speed, and temperature) of the main charge state of selected elements. Monthly files USWIMATByyddd.DAT, packed into archives SWICSyy.ZIP. 2. Selected charge state and element ratios. Yearly files SWICHSTyy.DAT, packed into a single archive SWXCHST.ZIP. Moreover, the comprehensive SWICS Archive CD-ROM is also available at the ESTEC website. This is a level-1 product (18 rates at full time and energy resolution) from which the other two could in principle be generated. Currently it can be used with a command-line interface only, but a web interface is planned for the near future. The archives are complete from launch through 12-18 months before present and get updated every 6 months. Ulysses investigators can access more recent data, up to ~6 months before present, via the UDS (username/password required). It is advisable to use these data only in close collaboration with the Ulysses/SWICS team. When using data from these archives for scientific analysis, please inform the Principal Investigators, George Gloeckler (gg10@umail.umd.edu) and Johannes Geiss (geiss@issi.unibe.ch). We hope that the community will appreciate this considerable over-fulfilment of our archiving duties and we will be happy to collaborate. Sincerely, Rudolf von Steiger (vsteiger@issi.unibe.ch) and Thomas Zurbuchen (thomasz@umich.edu) for the Ulysses/SWICS team