Exercise 1: Web interface

Selected Madrigal sites

Simple Local Data Access

  1. Start at the CEDAR Madrigal archive site, and choose Simple Local Data Access.

    1. Choose the Jicamarca IS radar. First choose "Incoherent Scatter Radars" as the instrument type to make scrolling through the instruments easier.

    2. Choose 2015, then January, and then the 6th.

    3. Jicamarca ran two experiments on this day. Choose the Drifts experiment.

    4. Jicamarca has broken the experiment into separate files. Choose the file for Jan 6th.

    5. Use the Download data to download the file in both ascii and Hdf5 format. Which format is faster?

    6. Use the Print data to display the file in ascii format in the browser.

    7. Use the View info, and More parameters buttons. The More parameters button is a link to the full UI that allows you to choose parameters and set filters.

    8. If you have time, Repeat the steps above with the Jicamarca Madrigal site. Jicamarca has a slightly modified version of this web interface - note any differences.

Browse for Individual Madrigal Experiments

  1. Start at any Madrigal site above (Jicamarca, CEDAR, Millstone, SRI, or EISCAT).

  2. Use Full Access Data and then Browse for Individual Madrigal Experiments. Search for all instruments that were running on 2007-03-27. Use the default All Madrigal Sites option. Go back and repeat the search so only Incoherent Scatter Radars are shown.

  3. Select the Poker Flat World Day experiment that was running on 2007-03-27, and do the following with that experiment:

    1. Determine how many data files there are for that experiment, and how they differ.

    2. For one of the files, choose "View description from the catalog and/or header records", and read the summary information stored there. Ask questions if anything is unclear.

    3. Download one of the files is ascii format by using the Download file link, and sticking with the default Simple column-formated ascii option. Remember that this option does not filter the data, and no derived parameters will be included. Open the downloaded file with a text editor to make sure its easy to understand and parse.

    4. Madrigal administrators can add plots and links to each Madrigal experiment. Click on the Geometry Plot link to see the beams that were used. Examine other plots from that experiment.

    5. For the default file for Alternating Code (AC16-30), choose "Print file as ascii (isprint)". This link allows you print both measured and derived parameters. For this file, choose time parameters (year, month, day, hour, min, sec), geographic parameters (elm, azm, gdlat, glon, gdalt), geophysical parameter (kp), and I. S. Radar Basic Parameters (ne, dne, ti, dti, te, dte). Which of these parameters are in the file, and which are derived?

    6. Repeat the above with headers off and missing data replaced with the string NaN.

    7. Save the result in a file using the Save text to file button.

    8. Determine what the Autocorrelation parameter NUMTXAEU means.

    9. Next, we'll try to filter the data. There are some standards filter at the top of the web page, such as elevation or altitude. Just under them are free-form filters that allow filtering using any parameter. First, apply a filter to eliminate elevations under 75 degrees. Look at the resulting data to be sure all data with elevation less than 75 degrees is eliminated.

    10. Add a filter so that only data where te/dte is greater than 10.0 is printed (that is, the error in te is less than one-tenth the measured value).

Run Models

  1. Use the Madrigal page Run Models->Calculate any Madrigal parameter for a given time and range of lat, lon, and alt to calculate the shadow height (SDWHT) and magnetic field vector (BN,BE,BD) 1000 km directly above PFISR (lat 65.130, lon -147.471) at 2007-03-27 12:00:00 UT.

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