Tanaka, Yoshimasa and Shinbori, Atsuki and Hori, Tomoaki and Koyama, Yukinobu and Abe, Shuji and Umemura, Norio and Sato, Yuka and Yagi, Manabu and UeNo, Satoru and Yatagai, Akiyo and Ogawa, Yasunobu and Miyoshi, Yoshizumi (2013) Analysis software for upper atmospheric data developed by the IUGONET project and its application to polar science. Advances in Polar Science, 24 (4). pp. 231-240.
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Abstract
To comprehensively understand the Arctic and Antarctic upper atmosphere, it is often crucial to analyze various data that are obtained from many regions. Infrastructure that promotes such interdisciplinary studies on the upper atmosphere has been developed by a Japanese inter-university project called the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation Network (IUGONET). The objective of this paper is to describe the infrastructure and tools developed by IUGONET. We focus on the data analysis software. It is written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) and is a plug-in for the THEMIS Data Analysis Software suite (TDAS), which is a set of IDL libraries used to visualize and analyze satellite- and ground-based data. We present plots of upper atmospheric data provided by IUGONET as examples of applications, and verify the usefulness of the software in the study of polar science. We discuss IUGONET’s new and unique developments, i.e., an executable file of TDAS that can run on the IDL Virtual Machine, IDL routines to retrieve metadata from the IUGONET database, and an archive of 3-D simulation data that uses the Common Data Format so that it can easily be used with TDAS.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | data analysis software, metadata database, upper atmosphere, ground-based observation, polar science, interdisciplinary study, IUGONET |
| Subjects: | Natural Environment > Atmosphere |
| Organizations: | Unspecified |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2023 12:52 |
| URI: | http://library.arcticportal.org/id/eprint/2503 |
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