BMA Cooling - Space Plasma Research Work
Resource Catalogue

This page has links to various items which I developed alongside my thesis and which may be of use to the Community. If you use them, please reference me!

• IDL program files
• Parameter catalogue notes
• Magnetosheath field at the magnetopause
• Magnetopause currents
• Magnetic field shears at the magnetopause

• Zip file containing the 3 IDL programs used to create the motion of the flux tube figures in the paper Cooling et al 2001 and in the Ph.D. thesis PLUS Robert Fear's correction to the mergeline function.
  Note: March 2018 - for some reason the zip file is not downloading but it is there. If you want it, navigate to the file path directly and you can pick it up there. zip 19kB
  The 3 programs are in IDL and will run on Student Version (not tried on Windows Vista, but works ok on Windows XP). They are copiously commented so I hope they are self-explanatory.
  
  Erratum: Robert Fear (now at Leicester University - identified that the originally posted version does not switch the merging line off (which another version did prior to a hard disk failure!). This was not material to the published work. However, Robert corrected the error. This is included in the download as 'correction.txt'. I have not amended the IDL programs themselves so you will need to do this yourself.
  You can see the difference the amendment makes here

• Catalogue Chapter 1 - The Magnetosheath Field.pdf format 1.5MB
  
  Magnetosheath field at the magnetopause as derived from the Kobel and Fluckiger 1994 model for a 10nT IMF. Pages 2-4 show the direction in YZ projection of the magnetosheath field calculated at the magnetopause for the paraboloid magnetopause described in Cooling et al. 2001. Pages 5-7 show the contour plots for the magnetosheath field strength at the magnetopause under the same conditions.
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• Catalogue Chapter 2 - Magnetopause Currents.pdf format 1.6MB
  
  Magnetopause currents as derived from the Kobel and Fluckiger 1994 model for a 10nT IMF and a simple geometrical geomagnetic field model fitting a paraboloid magnetopause as described in Cooling et al. 2001. Pages 2-4 show the direction in YZ projection of the magnetopause currents. Pages 5-7 show the contour plots for the magnetopause current strength under the same conditions.
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• Catalogue Chapter 3 - Magnetic Field Shears.pdf format 1.1MB
  
  Magnetopause magnetic field shears as derived from the Kobel and Fluckiger 1994 model for a 10nT IMF and a simple geometrical geomagnetic field model fitting a paraboloid magnetopause as described in Cooling et al. 2001. Pages 2-4 show the contour plots of the magnetic field shears. Pages 5-7 show the same contours but with a 35nT and 50nT threshold for Delta Bq overplotted. Anti-parallelists will wish to confine their attention to the white/yellowish 'bananas' while those of a more component-orientated frame of mind, may wish to consider the yellower contours above the preferred threshold plots. The thresholds are exactly equivalent to the current strength contours - 28mA/m maps to 35nT, 40mA/m to 50nT, so you may add your own.
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• Publications page with links to Ph.D. thesis and publications