HR: 16:50h
AN: SH44A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: A SOAP Web Services Interface to ACE Data
AU: * Davis, A J
EM: ad@srl.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Hamell, G R
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AB: Since early in 1998, NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft has provided continuous measurements of solar wind and energetic particle activity from L1, located approximately 0.01 AU sunward of Earth. ACE data from nine instruments are being used to measure and compare the elemental and isotopic composition of the solar corona, the nearby interstellar medium, and the Galaxy, and to study particle acceleration processes that occur in a wide range of environments. The spacecraft has enough fuel to stay in orbit about L1 until at least 2020. The ACE Science Center (ASC) provides access to ACE data, and performs level 1 and browse data processing for the science instruments. Available on-line are solar wind, solar energetic particle, and galactic cosmic ray intensity and composition data, as well as solar wind and magnetic field parameters on a variety of time scales. We describe our recent efforts to provide enhanced access to ACE data via a SOAP Web Services interface. The interface utilizes the Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) dictionary, and will be compatible with emerging virtual observatories.
UR: http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7894 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly