What's New on the CCR Web Pages
Added March 13, 2003
Added new Plot in CCR Plot Browser. New plot is a combined
POLAR/CEPPAD Pitch Angle plot for both IES and IPS together.
For a sample see: http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/cgi-bin/ccr_plot_choose_3.cgi/20030307/hist_ral/1
Added March 21, 2002
CCR Summary Plot Browser Modifications
Folks,
I have updated the CCR plot browser again. Here is
the link to it;
http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/cgi-bin/ccr_plot_choose_3.cgi
Please give it a try and report any bugs to me.
The new features are mostly in the Java applet. It now shows more CLUSTER
stuff. In particular, I have added all 4 spacecraft to the orbit plots. Also,
in doing this, I have noticed that the CENTROID location appears to be the same
as the C3 location, so I'll have to get to the bottom of that and make
appropriate changes. This also means that the orbit drawn in blue is the C3
orbit -- not the centroid orbit.
At the bottom of the applet, there is a slider to control the separation scale
factor in the plots. Setting to 0 will collapse everything to the C3 orbit.
Setting to 1 will give all 4 spacecraft at the correct scale. And setting to
greater than 1 shows a scaled and distorted tetrahedron.
In the near future, I will add some buttons to allow users to turn on/off
various plotting features. This may speed things up if you have a slow
machine...
Cheers,
Mike
Added March 13, 2002
New CCR Summary Plot Browser
Folks,
I have written a new version of the CCR plot browser. Here is
the link to it;
http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/cgi-bin/ccr_plot_choose_3.cgi
Please give it a try and report any bugs to me.
Currently, it may not fully work on Internet Explorer. But it should
work on both Netscape 4.XX and Netscape 6.XX.
On Netscape 4.XX, you can drag the mouse back and forth across the
plot (hold down the left mouse button while you do it) to show a
time-line and ephemeris information. I.e. on 4.XX the behavior is
pretty much the same as in the version 2.0 browser.
On Netscape 6.XX, the browser uses an embedded Java2 applet to display
the ephemeris info of the POLAR and CLUSTER (centroid) together with
X-Y, X-Z, Y-Z orbital plots of the POLAR, CLUSTER, and LANL GEO
spacecraft. Moving the mouse across the plot drives this applet. You
can also click on the plot to make the time-line appear. Click again
to make it go away.
One caveat on the orbit plots: Im currently trying to get the CLUSTER
ephem into GSM coords. Currently POLAR is in GSM and CLUSTER is in
GSE, (and GEO is in SM) so they cant be directly compared yet. I will
announce when these are finalized (probably within a week or so).
But, I'd still like people to try it out and let me know what else we
might want to do...
Cheers,
Mike
Added November 2, 2000
Cluster/Rapid Summary Plots now Available!
Cluster/Rapid plots are now available on the
CCR Summary Plot Browser!
This is a thumbnail sized plot for September 29, 2000 from the Cluster
4 spacecraft (Tango). Click on the image for more detail.
Also, the CCR www site is now mirrored at Lindau.
The URL for the Lindau site is:
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/projekte/ccr/CCR.html. For now,
the summary plot browser (and associated summary plots) reside only
at LANL. When adequate disk space is procurred at Lindau, these too
will be mirrored.
as of March 11, 1997
ISTP Science Nuggets
- The CCR
Home Page now has a new feature: ISTP Science Nuggets. The science
nuggets are at http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/CCR_nuggets.html.
I have taken four recent studies and written up very short, very
general descriptions that highlight the goals of ISTP. I would like
to include more. Please look at an example (e.g. http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/science/triggering/triggering.html)
and send me your science nuggets
The best thing would be to copy the html and send it to me so I can put
it directly on the web. The next best thing would be to use the same
format (e.g. "Key Data Sets", "Key Results", etc) and mail me the
text so that I can format it. Figures should be gif or jpeg but I can
also convert postscript or pdf files.
What was new on January 3, 1996
New Summary Plot Tools
- For the last several weeks the complete set of CCR summary plots and browsing tools
have been available at RAL in England
and MPAe
in Lindau as well as at LANL. The mirroring
software seems to be working without flaw and the European sites are
updated automatically on a daily basis.
- New plots available.
The list of data sets linked to the CCR continues to grow. Mike
Henderson has added a number of useful links at the bottom of each
plot. Most of the links are scripted so that you taken to a plot for
the same day that you have been looking at (not just a site where you
have to start navigating to the appropriate day) Currently available
plots include:
- Polar Ephemeris plots
- LANL Energetic Particle plots
- LANL MPA Plsama plots
- Provisional Dst index
- Provisional AE-ASY/SYM indicies
- Geosynchronous & Ground Key Parameter
survey
- Geotail Key Parameter survey
- Wind Key Parameter survey
- IMP-8 Key Parameter survey
- Polar Key Parameter survey
- and even a list of available VIS images for
that day
- coming soon
(thanks to Jack Scudder) complete HYDRA sumary plots
Publications List Updated
- The CCR Publications list has been updated to
include the AGU Spring Meeting, IAGA, and the Paros Symposium. I've
included the references that I know about (which generally means the
ones I'm co-author on). Please check http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/CCR_publications.html
to make sure that all your Ceppad & Cammice related papers are on
there and correct. Send changes or additions to reeves@lanl.gov.
- Coming Soon:
Keeping this publication list up-do-date is a big job for all of us.
Mike & I are planning a forms-based interface to make this job
easier. If you have ideas of what you'd like to see then please let
us know.
What was new on January 3, 1996
New Science Thrust
What was new on January 3, 1996
CCR Publication List Updated
- I have just finished updating the CCR publication list. Good job
folks! It's obvious that a lot of people have been working very hard
to get this long a list of publications already.
If you have given a talk or submitted a paper that used the CEPPAD or
CAMMICE data please check to make sure that it is on the publications
list. If it is not on the list then please send me the title,
authors, reference (e.g. conference or journal) and the abstract.
If your paper is already on the list please make sure it is up-to-date.
There are a number of papers that are "submitted" or "in press".
Please let me know when the status changes so that I can update the
record. Also note that there are links to the abstracts for many of
the papers. If your paper does not have a link it means I don't have
your abstract. If you send it to me then I will make a linked
document. Make sure you tell me exactly what paper it is for
though. I need the title and the complete author list as well as
the abstract in order to make an abstract page.
What was new on December 9, 1996
PAPCO plotting and analysis package available
What was new on November 27, 1996
On-Line "Publication" of First ENA Results
- At the AGU Chapman Conference on the Magnetotail in Kanazawa
Japan I presented some of the new Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA)
results that Mike Henderson, Harlan Spence, Anders Jorgensen, and I
have put together. I've taken all the slides from that talk and put
them together into an Adobe Acrobat file. I also added an explanation
of the figures. I thought this might be useful for people who weren't
in Kanazawa. The paper is on the CCR
Publications page or you can download
it directly [4 MB]. If you need to you can downad a
free Acrobat Viewer from Adobe.
What was new on October 15, 1996
New IPS Energy Thresholds
Key Parameter Generation Software
- There is a new software development archive that documents
development of key parameter generation software. Shri Kanekal is
primarily responsible and has made some sample key parameter plots
available at http://lepsam.gsfc.nasa.gov/www/polar/ceppad/
.
What was new on October 11, 1996
- If you're like me you've noticed a lot of interesting things in
the POLAR data that you just don't have time to look at in detail.
Maybe you have an idea for a study that you wish somebody
would do or hope you might get around to some day. Now there is a CCR
science discussion page to record your ideas. In addition to letting
giving other people the chance to help you out it provides a more
permenant record than all those sticky notes you have all over the
side of your computer monitor.
Science Thrust Page Pruned
- I have removed all the suggested science thrusts that don't have
leaders from the CCR Science Thrust page. From now on only active
science discussions will be included. The next level of pruning will
be to remove science discussions that have had no activity since they
were created so you folks that submitted topics and haven't followed
through better get busy.
Archive of Operations and Software Developments
Broken Links Fixed
- This summer both BU and GSFC decided to move their web pages from
one machine to another. BU did this gracefully. Goddard did not.
Links to uss-enterprise.bu.edu should now be directed to
spacedata.bu.edu. (The exception is the anonymous ftp site which is
still on uss-enterprise). By "graceful" I mean that uss-enterprise
still exists so the old links still work (thank you BU!) but this may
not last forever. Goddard, on the other hand seems to have shuffled
the links to many of their web pages. In particular the pages related
to Cluster are completely gone and the linkst to the ISTP project and
to POLAR pages have moved. These are now updated on CCR. If you have
links to Goddard pages you might want to check them.
New Content Too
- Don't forget that the "What's New" page only has information on
new features of the CCR Web server. There is new information on many
of the "old" pages. For example I try to notify people when there is
a new science thrust but I do not try to document every discussion that
goes on there. Tip: the ENA science thrust page has lots of exciting
new stuff.
What was new on April 10, 1996
- NASA's CDAWeb - an Interactive Key Parameter Plotter is now
linked to the CCR web pages. This is an excellent site developed by
Mona Kessel that allows you to plot key parameters from Polar
investigations or to download key parameter data. It is password
protected but open to all ISTP investigators. (e-mail me if you don't
already know the password)
- There is now a link on the CCR Home Page to a NASA-maintained
directory of home pages for the other ISTP experiments. This link
used to be on the CCR-Related Web Sites page but as more of the other
instrument teams get their servers on line I thought it should be
moved to the CCR Home Page. Links to the individual POLAR experiments
are also now included explicitly on the CCR-Related Web Sites page.
Information about Instrument Operations
- The About CCR page now contains
a section on Instrument Operations. This includes discussions like
the effort to optimize HIST operations and links to the commanding
summaries.
Documentation on Software Development Efforts
- The CCR Software page now
contains links to discussions on the development of software for
plotting and analyzing POLAR data.
What was new on April 10, 1996
- Harlan Spence has initiated a new CCR Science Thrust on the
observation of regions of energetic particle fluxes at high magnetic
latitudes where POLAR should be on open magnetic field lines.
- Rob Sheldon has started another discussion on particle dynamics
under the influence of convective electric fields.
Software Issues and Discussions
- Since we seem to have a number of software issues to discuss I
added a 10th "Science" Thrust topic on software. There are two topics
under this heading. Rob Sheldon is leading a discussion on Level
2 Data Format and Archive and I am still trying to resolve the issue
of password
protection of some of our web pages.
- At the suggestion of Manuel Grande I can now added links to your
personal home page to the CCR Science Team page. The link will be in
the alphabetic list of all team members. If you have a personal home
page that you would like me to link to just send me e-mail
(reeves@lanl.gov) with your name and your URL.
What was new on April 10, 1996
- As we gear up to analyze the CEPPAD and CAMMICE data more people
have been coming up with ideas for science thrusts. Accordingly the
has become a fully working document. The Global
"Loss" of Particles in the Early Phase of Storms page should now
be used for discussing that topic. If you want to experiment with how
the science thrust pages work there is now a separate example
page.
- How the Science Thrust Pages Work: At the Polar SWT the
team agreed to try to use the science thrust pages for our scientific
dialogs. There are several advantages over telephone or e-mail. The
way it works is that you type your name, return e-mail address, and
the text of your message into boxes on the science thrust page. When
you submit your comment it is automatically sent to the leader of
that project and to everyone listed as active team members for the
topic. The first advantage is that you don't have to decide who to
e-mail to or know all their addresses. The second advantage is that
your comment is also permanently added to the science thrust page so
that anyone can reference it and so that we keep sort of diary of our
discussions. (Don't worry, "permanent" comments can be removed if
necessary.) People can be added to or removed from the list of active
participants very easily. Just have the science thrust leader send
mail to reeves@lanl.gov.
- How to Start Your Own Science Thrust: Have a good idea?
You can Add
A New Science Thrust by filling in a simple form. The form
automatically creates a new temporary science thrust page that you
can try out right away. It also sends e-mail to me to let me know
that I need to add your science thrust to the CCR Science Thrust page
and to make it permanent. If you want to try that function then go
ahead. Just give your science thrust a title like "this is a test" so
I know to delete the page. If you want to take the lead on a topic
that is already listed that's OK too. Topics without links (indicated
by blue underlined text) are up for grabs. If you volunteered to lead
one of these projects at our meeting last fall please be sure to fill
out the Add
A New Science Thrust form.
What was new on March 12, 1996
- A page with postings about the latest happenings with Polar,
ISTP, and the CEPPAD, CAMMICE, and RAPID instruments.
- A number of science thrusts have been identified by the CCR team.
This page helps to keep track of the current research areas. Each
active research area has its own dynamic page. The science thrust
pages identify key personnel, describe the objective of the research,
and include comments from any interested parties. Click
here for an example of how the science thrust pages work.
- A page with postings about the latest happenings with Polar,
ISTP, and the CEPPAD, CAMMICE, and RAPID instruments.
- A page with postings about the latest happenings with Polar,
ISTP, and the CEPPAD, CAMMICE, and RAPID instruments.
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