These files are the input files and output files for simulating the Sept. 2017 space weather event using the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) via different resolutions of the BATS-R-US MHD code.

MODEL AND INPUT FILES:

The SWMF may be obtained from the Center for Space Environment Modeling:
http://csem.engin.umich.edu/tools/swmf/ or via https://github.com/MSTEM-QUDA
The SWMF comes with thorough documentation describing installation, execution,
and every input parameter available.

Run parameters are provided in the PARAM.* files.
PARAM.in_init, PARAM.in_init_low, and PARAM.in_init_superhi contain the setup
inputs for the standard, low, and high resolution simulation configurations.
PARAM.in_restart continues a run that has stopped.
LAYOUT.in organizes the processors in a parallized simulation.
mags.dat contains the locations for virtual magnetometers to be output.

The solar input files are given as simple ASCII files named IMF.dat.
The format and variable names of these files can be found in the SWMF user
manual.

RESULTS:
Output files may be visualized and examined using either the IDL package
provided alongside the SWMF or using the Spacepy python software package.
Spacepy is freely available at https://github.com/spacepy/spacepy

Magnetometer files (magnetometers.tgz) contain ten second-resolution
virtual magnetometer corresponding to real-world stations.
The surface perturbation is given in North-East-Down magnetic coordinates.
It is broken down by total perturbation and by contribution from major
current sources (magnetospheric, FAC, Hall, Pedersen.)
More information can be found in:

Welling, D. (2019). Magnetohydrodynamic Models of B and Their Use in GIC Estimates. In J. L. Gannon, A. Swidinsky, & Z. Xu. (Eds.), Geomagnetically Induced Currents from the Sun to the Power Grid (in press) (Geophysica, pp. 43–65). American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119434412.ch3