Chinese Journal of Polar Research

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Analysis software for upper atmospheric data developed by the IUGONET project and its application to polar science

  Yoshimasa Tanaka1*, Atsuki Shinbori2, Tomoaki Hori3, Yukinobu Koyama4, Shuji Abe5, Norio Umemura3, Yuka Sato1, Manabu Yagi6, Satoru UeNo7, Akiyo Yatagai2, Yasunobu Ogawa1 & Yoshizumi Miyoshi3   

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    1 National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan;
    2 Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan;
    3 Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Furou-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8614, Japan;
    4 Data Analysis Center for Geomagnetism and Space Magnetism, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake Cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan;
    5 International Center for Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan;
    6 Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Tohoku University, Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan;
    7 Kwasan and Hida Observatories, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kurabashira, Kamitakara-cho, Takayama, Gifu 506-1314, Japan
  • Online:1963-12-30 Published:1963-12-30

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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.

Key words: data analysis software, metadata database, upper atmosphere, ground-based observation, polar science, interdisciplinary study, IUGONET