Dataset for A Statistical Survey of E-region Anomalous Electron Heating Using Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations

This archive contains the complete list of anomalous electron heating (AEH) events in PFISR data between 2010 and 2023 identified by Zhang and Varney (2024), along with the code necessary to reproduce the results. The main list of AEH events is in the file AEH_event_list.csv, and the rest of this archive is supporting information for reproducibility.

The files contained are:

algo1.ipynb: Python notebook implementing algorithm 1.

algo2.py: Python script implementing algorithm 2.

algo3.ipynb: Python notebook implementing algorithm 3.

algo4.ipynb: Python notebook implementing algorithm 4.

cal_velo.py: Python function to calculate ion velocity.

io_utils.py: Python functions for manipulating AMISR hdf5 files.

Fig1.ipynb: Python notebook to recreate figure 1.

Fig2,5.ipynb: Python notebook to recreate figures 2 and 5.

Fig3,11.ipynb: Python notebook to recreate figures 3 and 11.

Fig4.ipynb: Python notebook to recreate figure 4.

Fig6.ipynb: Python notebook to recreate figure 6.

Fig7,8,9,10.ipynb: Python notebook to recreate figures 7, 8, 9, and 10.

PFISR_Data_Quality_Checker.ipynb: Python notebook with data preprocessing and quality checking.

Table1.ipynb: Python notebook to extract the beamcode information needed for table 1.

AEH_events_list.csv: Complete list of AEH events identified by algorithms 1, 3, and 4. The first column indicates the UT time of the start of the event, and 1 or 0 in the three columns denote whether the event was or was not detected by the algorithm, respectively.

AEH_in_2010&2011.csv: Spreadsheet to facilitate direct comparisons with previous work on AEH in 2010 and 2011.

f107.json: Smoothed F10.7 data used in this study.

AEH_Detection_Outputs.zip: Archive of all of the raw output of the python scripts running the detection algorithms.

AE&PAE.zip: Archive of all AE data used in this study.