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GOES-R Series Level 1b SEISS Magnetospheric Particle Sensor High Energy (MPS-HI) Product in Daily Aggregations

GOES-R SEISS MPS-HI L1b Data in Daily Aggregations

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The GOES-R Magnetospheric Electrons and Protons: Medium and High Energy (MPSH) Product consists of fluxes of medium and high energy electrons and protons derived from in situ measurements of electron and proton count rates. The Magnetospheric Particle Sensor High (MPS-HI) makes these measurements. MPS-HI consists of ten solid state telescopes, five for electrons and five for protons, that define a 170-degree fan-like field-of-regard in the north-south plane. Differential and integral electron fluxes are reported at eleven energy bands from each electron telescope. Ten of the energy bands are evenly spaced logarithmically spanning from 50 keV to 4 MeV with differential electron flux being reported. The eleventh energy band collects electrons with energies greater than 2 MeV with electron integral flux being reported. In addition, differential proton fluxes are reported at eleven energy bands from each proton telescope. The eleven proton energy bands are evenly spaced logarithmically and range from 80 keV to 12 MeV. In addition, the product contains ionizing radiation doses in two energy deposition ranges, 50 keV to 1 MeV (low linear energy transfer, LOLET) and 1 MeV to 50 MeV (high linear energy transfer, HILET). The product also contains processing and data quality metadata, satellite state and location information, and data required for the generation of level 2 products. Measurement resolution is one second. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has created these daily files by aggregating the official L1b files produced by the GOES-R Ground System. The granular L1b files each span 30 seconds of observations.
  • Cite this dataset when used as a source: GOES-R SEISS MPS-HI L1b Data in Daily Aggregations. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
  • gov.noaa.ncei.swx:seis-l1b-mpsh-goesr
gov.noaa.ncei.swx:seis-l1b-mpsh-goesr
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  • NetCDF-4
Distributor NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
goesr.spaceweatherdata@noaa.gov
Dataset Point of Contact Brian T. Kress
Instrument Scientist
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
goesr.seiss@noaa.gov
Coverage Description non-geographic dataset
Time Period 2017-12-08 to Present
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates Bounding coordinates not available
Dataset Information
Processing Documents
  • OR_SEIS-L1b-ALG-MPSH_<Version>.zip (planned publication in August 2018)
    Associated Resources
    Publication Dates
    • publication: 2017-12-19
    Edition 1.0.0
    Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
    Dataset Progress Status Planned - fixed date has been established upon or by which the data will be created or updated
    Data Update Frequency Daily
    Supplemental Information
    MPS-HI consists of ten solid state telescopes, five for electrons and five for protons. Collectively, the five telescopes per species, each with a 30 degree conical field-of- view, span a total angular range of 170 degrees in the Y-Z plane, arranged north-to-south in a fan. The central telescope has an anti-earthward look-angle parallel to the minus Z-axis (in spacecraft body-reference- frame coordinates). Neighboring telescope centers are separated by 35 degrees. The north-to- south order of telescope numbers is (3, 1, 4, 2, 5) for electrons and (1, 4, 2, 5, 3) for protons when the spacecraft is upright. The MPSH product's low linear energy transfer (LOLET) and high linear energy transfer (HILET) radiation dose measurements are obtained from a pair of dosimeters with 250 mil (0.635 cm, Dosimeter 1) and 100 mil (0.254 cm, Dosimeter 2) aluminum shielding, for a total of four dose products.
    Purpose The GOES-R Magnetospheric Electrons and Protons: Medium and High Energy (MPSH) Product consists of fluxes of medium and high energy electrons and protons derived from in situ measurements of electron and proton count rates. Differential and integral electron fluxes are reported at eleven energy bands in five angular look directions. The data will help users who wish to monitor solar energetic particle (SEP) events and research magnetospheric conditions. NESDIS produces GOES-R SEISS MPS-HI Level 1b products from GOES-R SEISS Level 0 source files. These output files span 30 seconds of one-second observations. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) then takes the 30-second files and aggregates them to produce daily SEISS MPS-HI L1b products. These daily files are intended to be more convenient for users than the original 30-second files.
    Use Limitations
    • These GOES-16 data have reached provisional maturity and are still undergoing testing. Users receiving these data through any dissemination means assume all risk related to their use and NOAA disclaims any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
    Dataset Citation
    • Cite this dataset when used as a source: GOES-R SEISS MPS-HI L1b Data in Daily Aggregations. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
    Cited Authors
    • National Centers for Environmental Information
    Publishers
    • National Centers for Environmental Information
    Theme keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science and Services Keywords
    • EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX > PROTON FLUX
    • EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS
    Platform keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords
    • Solar/Space Observation Satellites > GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
    • GOES-16 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16
    • GOES-17 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17
    Instrument keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
    • Solar/Space Observing Instruments > Particle Detectors > > > SEISS-GOESR
    Place keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
    • SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > MAGNETOSPHERE (OTHER)
    Project keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Project Keywords
    • GOES > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
    • NOAA OneStop Project
    Data Resolution keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Resolution Keywords
    • Temporal Resolution Range: 1 second - < 1 minute
    Stratum keywords NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
    • SPACE > EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD > MAGNETOSPHERE (OTHER)
    Use Constraints
    • Cite this dataset when used as a source: GOES-R SEISS MPS-HI L1b Data in Daily Aggregations. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
    • NCEI cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NCEI makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NCEI can only certify that the data it distributes are an authentic copy of the records that were accepted for inclusion in the NCEI archives.
    Fees
    • Electronic downloads of the data are free.
    Lineage information for: dataset
    Lineage Statement This dataset was produced by NESDIS, and is archived at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
    Processor
    • WCDAS (Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station, Chincoteague, VA)
    • DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
    Processing Steps
    • The SEISS MPS-HI L1b Calibration Algorithm (SMHCA) produces the MPS-HI electron and proton fluxes. The MPS-HI raw count rates are first corrected for the dead-time effect. The proton count rates are assumed to be free from out-of-band contamination, based on pre-flight ground calibration activities. For the electron out-of-band contamination correction, the SMHCA uses proton fluxes from the SEISS SGPS-X sensor unit (in particular, from Telescope 3) to correct the highest energy electron channels. Finally, the dead-time corrected and contamination-corrected count rates for both protons and electrons are divided by geometrical factors to obtain differential fluxes for the differential channels, and integral fluxes for the integral channels.
    • Aggregation of SEISS MPS-HI 30-second files into daily aggregated files.
      Rationale: User convenience
    Processing Documents
      • OR_SEIS-L1b-ALG-MPSH_<Version>.zip (planned publication in August 2018)
      Source Datasets
      • GOES-R SEISS Level 0 data
        • Description of Source: GOES-R SEISS Level 0 data
        • Temporal extent used: 2017-12-16 to Present
      • SEISS MPS-HI Level 1b data
        • SEISS MPS-HI Level 1b data
          Web site to extract 30-second SEIS-L1b-MPSH files from CLASS
        • Description of Source: SEISS MPS-HI Level 1b data (30-second files)
        • Temporal extent used: 2017-12-08 to Present
      Last Modified: 2022-09-27T03:10:19
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