Data Source

The DMSP SSJ/4 particle detectors were designed and calibrated by Dave Hardy, colleagues at the Air Force Reserach Laboratroy (formerly known as the Air Force Geophysics Lab. and as the Air Force Phillips Lab.) at Hanscom Air Force Base near Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with assistance from Ampek Corp. of Bedford, MA. The data from the SSJ/4 sensors are in the public domain. The SSJ/4 particle data were used to create the Auroral Boundary Index (ABI) and the Hemispheric Power (HP).

Point of Contact: F. Rich, frederick.rich@hanscom.af.mil, Tel (781) 377-3857, FAX (781) 377-3160; AFRL/BSBXP, 29 Randolph Road, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA 01731-3010.

Rules of the Road for Using Space Weather Data from DMSP

1. Share data ONLY with those who have signed the Rules of the Road with an access form for the CEDAR Database.
2. If you use the indices in a public publication or discussion, you may wish to establish contact with the Air Force Reserach Laboratory to discuss the intended usage and possible data limitations, but this is not required.
3. Use appropriate bibliographic references (e.g.):

   Evans, D. S., Global Statistical Patterns of Auroral Phenomena, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Quantitative Modeling of Magnetospheric-Ionospheric Coupling Processes, 325, Kyoto, 1987. Fuller-Rowell, T. J. and D. S. Evans, Height-integrated Pedersen and Hall conductivity patterns inferred from the TIROS-NOAA satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 7606-7618, 1987.
   Gussenhoven, M. S., D. A. Hardy and W. J. Burke, DMSP/F2 electron observations of equatorward auroral boundaries and their relationship to magnetospheric electric fields, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 768-778, 1981.
   Gussenhoven, M. S., D. A. Hardy and N. Heinemann, Systematics of the equatorward diffuse auroral boundary, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 5692-5708, 1983.
   Hardy, D. A. and M. S. Gussenhoven, A statistical model of auroral electron precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., 90, A5, 4229-4248, 1985.

4. Acknowledge the CEDAR Database and the Air Force Reserach Laboratory in any publication or presentation (e.g.):
   Acknowledgements: The DMSP particle detectors were designed by Dave Hardy of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Auroral Boundary/Hemispheric Power Indices are provided with permission from the Space Vehicle Directorate, Air Force Reserch Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731, via the Cedar Database at the National Center for Atmospheric Research which is supported by the National Science Foundation.
5. When the Auroral Boundary or Hemispheric Power indices are used in a publication, please send the reference (or a courtesy copy) at the time of submission and/or after publication to F. Rich (frederick.rich@hanscom.af.mil) and to Barbara Emery (emery@ucar.edu).

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