Data · collection · 1994
Energetic Particles: Acceleration, Composition and Transport (EPACT) Investigation on WIND
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The main purpose of the Wind spacecraft is to measure the incoming solar wind, magnetic fields and particles, although early on it will also observe the Earth's foreshock region.
Description
Wind, together with Geotail, Polar, SOHO, and Cluster projects, constitute a cooperative scientific satellite project designated the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program which aims at gaining improved understanding of the physics of solar terrestrial relations.
The Energetic Particles: Acceleration, Composition and Transport (EPACT) investigation is designed to make comprehensive observations of solar, interplanetary, and galactic particles over wide ranges of charge, mass, and intensity using a combination of 8 different particle telescopes. Energetic particles are electrons or ions of all the chemical elements that have been accelerated to speeds of one tenth of the speed of light or more.
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These particles are accelerated in solar flares and at shock waves driven out from the Sun by fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They are accelerated in planetary magnetospheres and bow shocks and at the heliospheric termination shock where the solar wind runs into interstellar material (these latter particles are called anomalous cosmic rays (ACRs). The galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are accelerated by shock waves from distant supernovae.
EPACT data is available from the Polar-Wind-Geotail (PWG) Data Archive ( ftp://pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/00readme.html ) and at the NSSDC CDAWeb ( cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdaweb/ )
Links
Get the data
- FTP access to commpressed EPACT WIND data at PWG pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/compressed/wi/epa/lz ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- WIND Data on NSSDCs CDAWeb cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdaweb ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov /pub/uncompressed/wi/epa/lz ↗
FTP access to uncompressed EPACT WIND data at PWG
download · from NASA CMR
- Access to EPACT WIND data from NSSDC nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1994-071A&ds=%2A ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- WIND Project Home Page pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wind.shtml ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- WIND Project Home Page at ISTP www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Additional information on EPACT from LHEA epact2.gsfc.nasa.gov ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214615353-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214615353-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
Provenance · 1 source records, 18 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214615353-SCIOPS | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:epact | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/ionosphere-magnetosphere-dynamics/ion-chemistry-ionization | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/ionosphere-magnetosphere-dynamics/solar-wind | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-activity/coronal-mass-ejections | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-activity/solar-flares | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-flux/alpha-particle-flux | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-flux/electron-flux | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-flux/ion-flux | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-flux/proton-flux | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-properties/particle-density | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:wind | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |