DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14215141
title: Jets downstream of the Martian bow shock: Occurrence during the 2014-2024 period

description: The archive inside the file jetset.tgz contains a database of jets observed at Mars by the Maven spacecraft. The database is described and analysed in the paper "Jets downstream of the Martian bow shock: Occurrence during the 2014-2024 period" by Tara Mohammed-Amin, Eva Krämer, Sara Nesbit-Östman, Herbert Gunell, and Cyril Simon Wedlund.

 

The database consists of comma-separated ASCII files, one file per month,and in the file there is one jet per row.The following variables correspond to each column:

% general propertieststart  : start time of the jet.tstop   : end time of the jetscposx  : MSO x coordinate for the jet [km]scposy  : MSO y coordinate for the jet [km]scposz  : MSO z coordinate for the jet [km]

% properties at time of peak dynamic pressure within the jetpeak_Bx        : Bx (MSO) magnetic flux density [nT]peak_By        : By (MSO) magnetic flux density [nT]peak_Bz        : Bz (MSO) magnetic flux density [nT]peak_Bx10      : Bx 10 minute centred average [nT]peak_By10      : Bx 10 minute centred average [nT]peak_Bz10      : Bx 10 minute centred average [nT]peak_Bmag      : magnitude of B [nT]peak_Bmag10    : magnitude B 10 minute centred running average [nT]peak_vx        : vx (MSO) ion velocity component [km/s]peak_vy        : vy (MSO) ion velocity component [km/s]peak_vz        : vz (MSO) ion velocity component [km/s]peak_vx10      : vx 10 minute centred average ion velocity component [km/s]peak_vy10      : vy 10 minute centred average ion velocity component [km/s]peak_vz10      : vz 10 minute centred average ion velocity component [km/s]peak_vmag      : magnitude of v ion velocity [km/s]peak_vmag10    : magnitude of v 10 minute centred average ion velocity [km/s]peak_vmag2     : value of |v|^2 at time of peakpeak_vmag210   : 10 min mean of |v|^2 at time of peakpeak_density   : ion density [cm^-3]peak_density10 : ion density, 10 minute centred average [cm^-3]peak_pdyn      : dynamic pressure [Pa]peak_pdyn10    : dynamic pressure, 10 minute centred average [Pa]peak_Tpara     : parallel temperature [eV]peak_Tpara10   : parallel temperaturee, 10 minute centred average [eV]peak_Tperp     : perpendicular temperature [eV]peak_Tperp10   : perpendicular temperaturee, 10 minute centred average [eV]peak_Ttot      : total temperature [eV]peak_Ttot10    : total temperature, 10 minute centred average [eV]

% properties averaged over the data points within the jetmean_Bx        : Bx (MSO) magnetic flux density [nT]mean_By        : By (MSO) magnetic flux density [nT]mean_Bz        : Bz (MSO) magnetic flux density [nT]mean_Bx10      : Bx 10 minute centred average [nT]mean_By10      : Bx 10 minute centred average [nT]mean_Bz10      : Bx 10 minute centred average [nT]mean_Bmag      : magnitude of B [nT]mean_Bmag10    : magnitude B 10 minute centred running average [nT]mean_vx        : vx (MSO) ion velocity component [km/s]mean_vy        : vy (MSO) ion velocity component [km/s]mean_vz        : vz (MSO) ion velocity component [km/s]mean_vx10      : vx 10 minute centred average ion velocity component [km/s]mean_vy10      : vy 10 minute centred average ion velocity component [km/s]mean_vz10      : vz 10 minute centred average ion velocity component [km/s]mean_vmag      : magnitude of v ion velocity [km/s]mean_vmag10    : magnitude of v 10 minute centred average ion velocity [km/s]mean_vmag2     : mean of the magnitude of v^2mean_vmag210   : mean of the 10 minute moving meanmean_density   : ion density [cm^-3]mean_density10 : ion density, 10 minute centred average [cm^-3]mean_pdyn      : dynamic pressure [Pa]mean_pdyn10    : dynamic pressure, 10 minute centred average [Pa]mean_Tpara     : parallel temperature [eV]mean_Tpara10   : parallel temperaturee, 10 minute centred average [eV]mean_Tperp     : perpendicular temperature [eV]mean_Tperp10   : perpendicular temperaturee, 10 minute centred average [eV]mean_Ttot      : total temperature [eV]mean_Ttot10    : total temperature, 10 minute centred average [eV]