Computer session on measurement and analysis of waves and turbulence

6th COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop

Sinaia, Romania, June 4-16, 2007

Ondrej Santolik


The computer session, organized on June 6 between 16:30 and 18:30, follows the lecture on measurement and analysis of waves and turbulence given on the same day at 11:30.

The data sets for this computer session correspond to published observations of three different wave phenomena:

The measurements have been done by the STAFF-SA and WBD instruments onboard the four Cluster spacecraft (file names containing c1, c2, c3 or c4) and by the F4 instrument onboard the Freja spacecraft (file names containing f4).

The data files can either contain measured waveforms or spectral matrices. Both are stored in ASCII text files (*.asc). Students can use procedures read_wf.pro and read_sm.pro to read the waveform and the spectral matrix data, respectively. A set of commented IDL procedures is provided. With an exception of the assignment #5, only a very basic knowledge of the IDL is supposed.

Assignments: