Reanalysis TELECON Notes

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Date: August 08, 2009 13:30 PDT

Attending:

Yuri
Marianne
Andrei
Geoff
Reiner
Mike

Agenda:

1) THEMIS - LANL intercalibration and Mike Hartigner's visit to LANL during the summer
2) Comparison of LANL and UCLA reanalysis

Notes:

Cleaning data by Mike:
-Automatically removes the sun light contamination
-Sun light contamination in SST data is not that important, results almost identical before and after removal

Data used in the model:
GEO 95
GEO 80
LANL next best
GPS third best
POLAR prob best, However, could be more uncertain than geo: POLAR is pretty far off equator, and thus the field line tracing is more uncertain which is needed for calculations of the adiabatic invariants.

What should be the criteria for saying the model is a success? Within 70%?
-Remove things that may be causing differences.
-Calculate the last closed drift shell and throw away all the PSD beyond that.

Next meeting:

August, 20.
Suggested agenda:
Josef: new plots and new data.