UK EISCAT: Step by Step
- Introduction
- Some notes on the purpose of these pages.
- 1: What you should already know
- A brief outline of the things that you should already be familiar with before starting to use this guide.
- 2: The RAL EISCAT Computers
- A basic description of our computer systems.
- 3: Getting Started
- Instructions on how to get an account on our machines and some advice on how to set up your user area.
- 4: How to get at the data
- A high-level description of how to get to the EISCAT data.
- 5: Querying the catalogue
- How to use the catalogues to find the data you are interested in.
- 6: Accessing the EISCAT raw data
- Notes on how to access the EISCAT raw data.
- 7: Using unix pipes
- How to construct pipeline processes for data handling, using unix pipes.
- 8: Integrating raw data
- How to integrate (or dis-integrate!) EISCAT raw data.
- 9: Visualising raw data
- How to plot raw or integrated EISCAT data.
- 10: Analysing Raw Data
- How to turn raw data into plasma parameters.
- 11: Working with Analysed Data
- How to plot and work with analysed data files.
- 12: Databases
- Notes on the existing databases containing EISCAT data, and how to retrieve data from them.
- 13: Format conversions
- Notes on the various different data formats used by EISCAT, and how to convert between them.
- 14: Plotting analysed data
- How to plot EISCAT analysed data
- 15: Derived Parameters
- Constructing derived parameters from the initial analysed EISCAT data.
- 16: The Dynasonde
- How to get data from the Dynasonde, and how to use them to scale EISCAT data.
- 17: Help and Training
- How to get help, and where to get further training in using EISCAT.