Auxiliary Material Submission for Paper 2010JA015735 On the relationship between relativistic electron flux and solar wind velocity: Paulikas and Blake Revisited Geoffrey D. Reeves, Steven K. Morley, Reiner H. W. Friedel, Michael G. Henderson, Thomas E. Cayton, Gregory Cunningham, J. Bernard Blake, Rod A. Christensen, and Davis Thomsen (Los Alamos National Laboratory and The Aerospace Corp.) J. Geophys. Res., 115, A09111, doi:10.1029/2010JA015735, 2010 Introduction: Auxiliary material for this paper consists of three files that are described in more detail below. Two files are ascii data files that contain data from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) energetic particle instruments from a series of geosynchronous (GEO) satellites that have operated from 1989 to present (2010). The third file contains a description of the instruments, limitations and characteristics of the measurements, and the method used to process the data into a uniform data set suitable for space weather climatology. The data files contain data used in the analysis plus additional energy channels that are not analyzed in detail in the paper. The purpose of providing the data is two-fold: (1) to allow others to reproduce, quantitatively, the results in the paper using similar or alternative methods and (2) to allow any further investigations of the energetic particle environment at geosynchronous orbit consistent with the known limitations of the observations. 1. 2010JA015735 _LANL_Data_and_Processing.tex This electronic supplement describes the construction of a merged daily archive of ESP and SOPA electron data, from 1989 to 2009 (inclusive), using all available LANL satellites to fill the gaps in the data from LANL geosynchronous satellite 1989-046. The document contains information on:
1) The ESP electron instrument including energy channels, flux conversion factors, instrument performance characteristics, instrumental limitations including high count rate performance 2) The SOPA electron instrument including original measured energy channels, the technique used to fit a relativistic bi-Maxwellian spectrum to the measured count rates, and calculation of differential fluxes at fixed-energy “virtual channels” 3) The method used to produce a uniform, multi-satellite data set suitable for climatological space weather studies including the formulae used. 2. 2010JA015735_LANL_ESP_1989-2010.txt Daily-averaged electron fluxes from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Energetic Spectrometer for Particles (ESP) Daily averages from each geosynchronous satellite available on any given day were merged into a single, uniform daily average. Data span 22 September, 1989 through 31 December, 2009. Data are log(flux) with flux in units of electrons /(cm^2.s.sr.keV) [see t 2010JA015735 _LANL_Data_and_Processing for details] Nominal energy ranges for each ESP channel are E234 1.8-3.5 MeV E56 3.5-6.0 MeV E7 6.0-7.8 MeV 2.1 Column “Date_YYYY-MM-DD” Calendar date in YYYY-MM-DD format 2.2 Column “log(E234)”, log(flux), ESP channel E234 2.3 Column “log(E56)”, log(flux), ESP channel E56 2.4 Column “log(E7)”, log(flux), ESP channel E7 3. 2010JA015735_LANL_SOPA_1989-2010 Daily-averaged electron fluxes from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Synchronous Orbit Particle Spectrometer (SOPA) Daily averages from each geosynchronous satellite available on any given day were merged into a single, uniform daily average. Data span 22 September, 1989 through 31 December, 2009. Data are log(flux) with flux in units of electrons /(cm^2.s.sr.keV). The original SOPA data channels have been fit to a bi-Maxwelian spectra. Fluxes are evaluated at virtual "channels" for fixed energies (i.e. not for an energy passband or integral thresholds). [see 2010JA015735 _LANL_Data_and_Processing for details] 3.1 Column “Date” Calendar date in YYYY-MM-DD format 3.2 Column “E1-0.0241”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.0241 MeV 3.3 Column “E2-0.0317”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.0317 MeV 3.4 Column “E3-0.0416”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.0416 MeV 3.5 Column “E4-0.0625”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.0625 MeV 3.6 Column “E5-0.0900”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.0900 MeV 3.7 Column “E6-0.1275”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.1275 MeV 3.8 Column “E7-0.1725”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.1725 MeV 3.9 Column “E8-0.2700”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.2700 MeV 3.10 Column “E9-0.4075”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.4075 MeV 3.11 Column “E10-0.6250”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.6250 MeV 3.12 Column “E11-0.9250”, log(flux), evaluated at 0.9250 MeV 3.13 Column “E12-1.3000”, log(flux), evaluated at 1.3000 MeV 3.14 Column “E13-2.0000”, log(flux), evaluated at 2.0000 MeV