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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-59
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-59
01 Apr 2022
 | 01 Apr 2022

In-Situ Calibration of the Swarm-Echo Magnetometers

Robert M. Broadfoot, David M. Miles, Warren Holley, and Andrew D. Howarth

Abstract. CASSIOPE/e-POP, now known as Swarm-Echo, was launched in 2013 to study polar plasma outflow, neutral escape, and the effects of auroral currents on radio propagation in the ionosphere. The e-POP suite contains an array of eight instruments which include two fluxgate magnetometers on a shared boom. Until now, the two magnetometers relied on a set of prefight calibrations which limited the accuracy of the magnetic field product and their utility for some applications. Here we present the results of an in-situ calibration performed between on data from January 3, 2014, to January 30, 2021, and a case study showing the improvements the calibration has made to the data utility. Periodic vector-vector calibration using the Chaos magnetic field model results achieves an estimated RMS uncertainty of 9 nT during nominal operation. This data-product is now openly available through the ESA Swarm repository.

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31 Aug 2022
In situ calibration of the Swarm-Echo magnetometers
Robert M. Broadfoot, David M. Miles, Warren Holley, and Andrew D. Howarth
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 11, 323–333, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-323-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-323-2022, 2022
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The Swarm-Echo Satellite carries two magnetometers that allows us to obtain two independent...
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