HR: 1340h
AN: SA43A-1105    [Abstracts]
TI: TIMED Science With the Space Physics Data Facility's (SPDF) Data and Models Services
AU: * Bilitza, D
EM: bilitza@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Raytheon ITSS, GSFC, Code 612.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: McGuire, R E
EM: robert.e.mcguire@nasa.gov
AF: NASA, SPDF, GSFC, Code 612.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Kovalick, T
EM: kovalick@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: QSS, GSFC, Code 612.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Candey, R M
EM: robert.m.candey@nasa.gov
AF: NASA, SPDF, GSFC, Code 612.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Leckner, H
EM: leckner@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: QSS, GSFC, Code 612.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) provides access to a large volume of data and models that are of relevance to Ionospheric, Thermospheric and Mesospheric (ITM) physics and to the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission in particular. SPDF has developed a number of web systems to facilitate user access to important data and model resources and is making these services available through Web Services (or Application Programming Interfaces, API) directly to applications such as VxOs. The Coordinated Data Analysis web (CDAWeb) provides access to data from most of NASA's currently operating space science satellites and many of the earlier missions covering the full expanse of the Earth-Sun system from mesosphere to heliosphere. CDAWeb lets user plot data using a wide range of parameter display options including mapped images and movies; capabilities also include parameter listings and data downloads in CDF and ASCII format. TIMED data display options, for example, include GUVI airglow intensities and TIDI neutral wind vectors in a transverse Mercator projection that shows simultaneously both poles and the equatorial region. Coupled with CDAWeb's comprehensive coverage of solar wind parameters the TIMED data will provide new insights into the ITM response to solar and magnetic storms. SPDF's SSCWeb interface enables users to plot orbits for the majority of space physics satellites and to query for magnetic field line conjunctions between multiple spacecraft and ground stations and for magnetic region occupancy and thus enables coordinates science investigation between TIMED and CEDAR ground stations. Recently an Interactive 3-D orbit viewer was added to SSCWeb. Access to legacy data from older ITM satellite missions is provided through the ATMOWeb browse and download system enabling the study of solar cycle effects on ITM parameters. SPDF's Modelweb service is the front-end to a unique collection of solar-terrestrial databased models that include the widely used IRI, MSIS, and IGRF models. A few examples will be discussed that highlight on one side the usefulness of these models for TIMED data analysis and on the other side the use of TIMED data for the improvement of these models. All systems can be accessed through the SECAA homepage at http://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/
DE: 0310 Airglow and aurora
DE: 0358 Thermosphere: energy deposition (3369)
DE: 7549 Ultraviolet emissions
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005