<_Note>Nodes prefixed with a _ are not valid SPASE, but are included for debugging. Values prefixed with a x_ are not valid SPASE but may considered for addition for completeness. 2.6.1 <_MasterURL>https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/software/cdawlib/0JSONS/wi_sw-ion-dist_swe-faraday_00000000_v01.json (from all.xml) spase://NASA/NumericalData/Wind/SWE/FaradayCup/IonDistribution/PT92S <_ResourceID>Source: https://github.com/rweigel/cdawmeta-spase/blob/main/ResourceID.json Faraday Cup orientation and charge flux <_ResourceName>Source: Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Logical_source_description wi_sw-ion-dist_swe-faraday <_AlternateName>Source: Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Logical_source <_Description>Source: Master/CDFglobalAttributes/TEXT <_Acknowledgement>Source: Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Acknowledgement <_Rights> SPDX Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html https://spdx.org/licenses/ Wind SWE Reduced Charge Flux Distributions, Data Release Notes https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/wind/swe/swe_faraday/documents/wi_sw-ion-dist_swe-faraday_releasenotes.pdf Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE: reduced charge flux distributions data release notes, version: 1.0. format: CDF 3.4.0. release Date: June 10, 2012 en <_Note>URL also in all.xml, master. Using InformationURL.json. Original Wind SWE web page, MIT http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/s/space/www/wind.html Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, web page hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Space Plasma group. Since the Summer of 2015, the responsibility for Wind plasma data has been assumed by the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Lab. en <_Note>URL also in all.xml, master. Using InformationURL.json. Wind Spacecraft homepage https://wind.nasa.gov Homepage for the Wind mission. Contains links to data and instrument descriptions. <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Wind Spacecraft General Instrument web page, GSFC https://wind.nasa.gov/data.php Wind Spacecraft general instrument web page with links to data, documentation, and home pages for all spacecraft instruments, hosted by NASA GSFC en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Wind spacecraft General web page for data sources from all instruments, GSFC https://wind.nasa.gov/data_sources.php Wind spacecraft general instrument web page with brief descriptions for data sources from all instruments, hosted by NASA GSFC en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Wind/SWE Description https://wind.nasa.gov/swe/index.html Wind/SWE (Solar Wind Experiment) electron instruments, history and data products <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Wind MFI and SWE Key Parameter Data Access and Plotting web page, GSFC https://wind.nasa.gov/mfi_swe_plot.php Wind Magnetic Field Innstrument, MFI, and Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Key Parameter data access and plotting web page with selectable overplotting of DSCOVR data and links to CDF data directories, hosted by NASA GSFC en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json NSSDC Master Catalog, Wind, SWE instrument https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=1994-071A-06 General information concerning the Wind, Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, instrument en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Original Wind SWE Instrument description web page, MIT http://web.mit.edu/space/www/wind/wind_instruments.html Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Instrument description web page hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Space Plasma group en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Wind Magnetic Field Investigation, MFI, instrument, Space Science Reviews publication https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00751326 Ogilvie, K.W., D.J. Chornay, R.J. Fritzenreiter, F. Hunsaker, J. Keller, J. Lobell, G. Miller, J.D. Scudder, E.C. Sittler, Jr., R.B. Torbert, D. Bodet, G. Needell, A.J. Lazarus, J.T. Steinberg, J.H. Tappan, A. Mavretic, and E. Gergin, SWE, a comprehensive plasma instrument for the Wind spacecraft, Space Sci. Rev., 71, 55-77, 1995, DOI: 10.1007/BF00751326 en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json Wind SWE KP Readme file, MIT ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/plasma/wind/kp_files/000_README_WIND_P_FILES.TXT Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Key Parameter Readme file, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT en <_Note>Source: InformationURL.json https://doi.org/10.48322/6vrg-6n41 <_DOI>Source: https://github.com/rweigel/cdawmeta-spase/blob/main/DOI.json <_AccessInformation>Source: https://github.com/rweigel/cdawmeta-spase/blob/main/AccessInformation.json 1994-11-17T19:50:45Z 2026-04-13T23:58:36Z <_TemporalDescription>Generated from all.xml/@timerange_start and all.xml/@timerange_stop PT1M14.642S <_Cadence>Counts based on variable 'Epoch' in https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/sp_phys/data/wind/swe/swe_faraday/1994/wi_sw-ion-dist_swe-faraday_19941117_v01.cdf. The most common cadence, 74642 [ms] = PT1M14.642S, occurred for 61.0619% of the 138 timesteps. <_ObservedRegion>Source: https://github.com/rweigel/cdawmeta-spase/blob/main/ObservedRegion.json <_ProcessingLevel>Processing level is not available in the master file; it should be there instead of, say, https://github.com/rweigel/cdawmeta-spase/blob/main/ProcessingLevel.json spase://SMWG/Instrument/Wind/SWE spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC HTTPS from SPDF https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/wind/swe/swe_faraday In CDF via HTTP from CDAWeb wi_sw-ion-dist_swe-faraday_%Y%m%d_%Q.cdf %Y WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY CDF spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC FTPS from SPDF ftps://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/wind/swe/swe_faraday In CDF via HTTP from CDAWeb wi_sw-ion-dist_swe-faraday_%Y%m%d_%Q.cdf %Y WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY CDF spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC CDAWeb Web Service https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/ Instructions for using web services to access this dataset an other other metadata and options for CDAWeb datasets. The ProductKey here corresponds to the query parameter 'dataset' in the tables at the AccessURL in a dataset-related request can be made. WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY CDF CSV GIF NetCDF PNG PS PDF XML x_Script.IDL x_Script.Python Text.ASCII x_WAV spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC CDAWeb Web Service user interface https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eval2.cgi?index=sp_phys&dataset=WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY Web service user interface for this product. CDF GIF PDF Text.ASCII x_WAV spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC CDAWeb Python Script https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WS/cdasr/1/dataviews/sp_phys/datasets/WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY/clientLibraryExample/ WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY Web service that generates a Python script to access this product. x_Script.IDL x_Script.Python spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/SSCWeb. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC 4D Orbit Viewer https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/4dorbit/?sc=WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY Web Service to this product. HTML spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb and the HAPI project. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC CDAWeb HAPI Server https://hapi-server.org/servers/#server=CDAWeb&dataset=WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY Web Service to this product using the HAPI interface. CSV JSON Binary spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb and the HAPI project. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC CDAWeb HAPI Script in Multiple Languages https://hapi-server.org/servers/#server=CDAWeb&dataset=WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY&return=script WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY Web Service user interface that generates scripts in IDL, Javascript, MATLAB, Python, Autoplot, curl, wget to access this product. See https://hapi-server.org/servers/api for the API. x_Script.IDL x_Script.Javascript x_Script.MATLAB x_Script.Python x_Script.Autoplot x_Script.curl x_Script.wget spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF Online Open SPDF/CDAWeb and the HAPI project. Please also acknowledge the data producer: Keith Ogilvie at NASA GSFC HAPI visualizations https://hapi-server.org/plot/?server=https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/hapi&dataset=WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY&format=gallery WI_SW-ION-DIST_SWE-FARADAY Web Service that generates plots. See https://hapi-server.org/plot/ for the API. PNG PDF SVG Wind Interplanetary Plasma Laboratory (from all.xml/observatory/description/@short) Solar Wind Experiment Faraday Cup (from all.xml/instrument/description/@short) Space Physics (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Discipline) Interplanetary Studies (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Discipline) Magnetospheric Science (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Discipline) wi (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Source_name) Wind Interplanetary Plasma Laboratory (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Source_name) SW-Ion-Dist (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Data_type) Solar Wind Plasma Reduced Ion Distribution Functions (from Master/CDFglobalAttributes/Data_type) SWE-Faraday (from all.xml/instrument/@ID) Earth.Magnetosphere.Magnetotail Earth.Magnetosphere Earth.Magnetosheath Earth.NearSurface.AuroralRegion Earth.Magnetosphere.Main Heliosphere.NearEarth Earth.NearSurface.Plasmasphere Heliosphere.Inner Earth.NearSurface.PolarCap Heliosphere ElectricField EnergeticParticles InstrumentStatus Epoch Epoch CATDESC: 'Default time at the beginning of the spectrum'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The units are the units in CDF files. For other web services, this variable is may be represented as a time string.' ms Scalar Temporal cup1_qflux cup1_qflux Master CDF CATDESC: '[CDAWEB PLOTS NOT SUPPORTED] The total charge flux (current) incident on the collector of cup 1, in picoAmperes (E/Q-azimuth display)'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup1_qflux cup1_qflux_reorder Master CDF CATDESC: 'The total charge flux (current) incident on the collector of cup 1, in picoAmperes (E/Q-azimuth display) [data monotonically sorted based on dependencies]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup1_qflux cup1_qflux_E Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Spectrograms by azimuth at sample E/Q [data monotonically sorted based on dependencies]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup1_qflux cup1_qflux_A Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Spectrograms by E/Q at sample azimuths [data monotonically sorted based on dependencies]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup2_qflux cup2_qflux Master CDF CATDESC: '[CDAWEB PLOTS NOT SUPPORTED] The total charge flux (current) incident on the collector of cup 2, in picoAmperes (E/Q-azimuth display)'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup2_qflux cup2_qflux_reorder Master CDF CATDESC: 'The total charge flux (current) incident on the collector of cup 2, in picoAmperes (E/Q-azimuth display) [data monotonically sorted based on dependencies]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup2_qflux cup2_qflux_E Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Spectrograms by azimuth at sample E/Q [data monotonically sorted based on dependencies]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup2_qflux cup2_qflux_A Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Spectrograms by E/Q at sample azimuths [data monotonically sorted based on dependencies]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The noise limit of this measurement is approximately 0.69 pA...Models of charge flow into the cup from oblique angles to the cup axis should account for projection of the aperture onto the collector. The calibrated effective area of the cup is given as a function of incidence angle in the lookup table.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' pA -1e+31 20 31 cup1_azimuth cup1_azimuth Master CDF CATDESC: 'Azimuthal angle of the cup 1 normal.'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The azimuthal angle for cup 1, in degrees. This is the angle formed by the ecliptic plane component of the cup normal and the XGSE unit vector. Positive angles correspond to deflection into the YGSE direction.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' degrees -1e+31 20 cup1_azimuth cup1_azimuth_reorder Master CDF CATDESC: 'Azimuthal angle of the cup 1 normal. [data monotonically sorted]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The azimuthal angle for cup 1, in degrees. This is the angle formed by the ecliptic plane component of the cup normal and the XGSE unit vector. Positive angles correspond to deflection into the YGSE direction.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' degrees -1e+31 20 cup1_EperQ cup1_EperQ Master CDF CATDESC: '---> The Energy-per-charge of admitted ions, i.e. the bias potential of cup 1 (in Volts).'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'For each potential window, the bias oscillates over a small range. This is the central value of the range.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' Volts -1e+31 31 cup1_EperQ cup1_EperQ_reorder Master CDF CATDESC: '---> The Energy-per-charge of admitted ions, i.e. the bias potential of cup 1 (in Volts). [data monotonically sorted]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'For each potential window, the bias oscillates over a small range. This is the central value of the range.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' Volts -1e+31 31 cup1_EperQ_DEL cup1_EperQ_DEL Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Range of Energy-per-charge of admitted ions, i.e. the range of the bias potential of cup 1 (in Volts).'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'For each potential window, the bias oscillates over a small range. This is the width of the range.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' Volts -1e+31 31 cup2_azimuth cup2_azimuth Master CDF CATDESC: 'Azimuthal angle of the cup 2 normal.'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The azimuthal angle for cup 2, in degrees. ed This is the angle formed by the ecliptic plane component of the cup normal and the XGSE unit vector. Positive angles correspond to deflection into the YGSE direction.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' degrees -1e+31 20 cup2_azimuth cup2_azimuth_reorder Master CDF CATDESC: 'Azimuthal angle of the cup 2 normal. [data monotonically sorted]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'The azimuthal angle for cup 2, in degrees. ed This is the angle formed by the ecliptic plane component of the cup normal and the XGSE unit vector. Positive angles correspond to deflection into the YGSE direction.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' degrees -1e+31 20 cup2_EperQ cup2_EperQ Master CDF CATDESC: '---> The Energy-per-charge of admitted ions, i.e. the bias potential of cup 2 (in Volts).'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'For each potential window, the bias oscillates over a small range. This is the central value of the range.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' Volts -1e+31 31 cup2_EperQ cup2_EperQ_reorder Master CDF CATDESC: '---> The Energy-per-charge of admitted ions, i.e. the bias potential of cup 2veri (in Volts). [data monotonically sorted]'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'For each potential window, the bias oscillates over a small range. This is the central value of the range.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' Volts -1e+31 31 cup2_EperQ_DEL cup2_EperQ_DEL Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Range of Energy-per-charge of admitted ions, i.e. the range of the bias potential of cup 2 (in Volts).'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: 'For each potential window, the bias oscillates over a small range. This is the width of the range.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' Volts -1e+31 31 tracking tracking Master CDF CATDESC: 'Boolean signifying whether SWE is in peak-tracking mode'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: '0=not tracking.1=tracking..In TRACKING mode, the EperQ window with maximum current signal is identified and the EperQ scanning range is continuously adjusted such that the scan begins five windows below the peak (or at the minimum voltage).'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' (1=Track) -128 full_scan full_scan Master CDF CATDESC: '---> Boolean signifying whether SWE is in full-scan mode'. Master CDF VAR_NOTES: '0=limited scan.1=full scan..In full scan mode, the EperQ scanning range is the full range of the instrument. In limited scan mode, the EperQ scanning range is smaller. Typically, limited scan mode is used in conjunction with tracking in order to best resolve the ion core distributions.'. Notes not in Master CDF: 'The time index (the ISTP DEPEND_0 variable) for this parameter is Epoch.' (1=Full) -128