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HELCATS interplanetary coronal mass ejection catalogue ICMECAT

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posted on 2017-02-28, 12:34 authored by Christian MoestlChristian Moestl, Peter D. Boakes, Alexey Isavnin, Emilia Kilpua, Simon Good, Robert Forsyth, Reka Winslow, Brian Anderson, Lydia Philpott, Vratislav Krupar, Jonathan Eastwood
This is the HELCATS interplanetary CME catalog, based on magnetometer and plasma observations in the heliosphere.

If this is used for a peer reviewed publication, please notify me via "christian.moestl [at] oeaw.ac.at" or "https://twitter.com/chrisoutofspace"

Number of events in ICMECAT: 668

ICME observatories: Wind, STEREO-A, STEREO-B, VEX, MESSENGER, ULYSSES

Time range: January 2007 - December 2015.

The .sav file can be read directly in IDL ("restore" function) and python ("scipy.io.readsav").

See header file for more explanations.

Funding

The presented work has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ 2007- 2013) under grant agreement No. 606692 [HELCATS].

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