EGU21-15443
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15443
EGU General Assembly 2021
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Swarm Mission: instruments performance, data availability, quality and future evolutions

Enkelejda Qamili1,2, Filomena Catapano1,2, Lars Tøffner-Clausen3, Stephan Buchert4, Christian Siemes5, Anna Mizerska6, Jonas Bregnhøj Nielsen3, Thomas Nilsson4, Jan Miedzik6, Maria Eugenia Mazzocato2, Lorenzo Trenchi1,2, Jerome Bouffard1, Anja Stromme1, Pierre Vogel7, and Berta Hoyos ortega7
Enkelejda Qamili et al.
  • 1European Space Agency, Esrin, Frascati, Italy
  • 2Serco Italia SpA, Frascati, Italy
  • 3DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 4Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
  • 5TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
  • 6GMV Poland, Warsaw, Poland
  • 7European Space Agency, Estec, The Netherlands

The European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm mission, launched on November 2013, continue to provide very accurate measurements of the strength, direction and variation of the Earth’s magnetic field. These data together with precise navigation, accelerometer, electric field, plasma density and temperature measurements, are crucial for a better understanding of the Earth’s interior and its environment. This paper will provide a status update of the Swarm Instrument performance after seven years of operations. Moreover, we will provide full details on the new Swarm Level 1b product baseline of Magnet and Plasma data which will be generated and distributed soon to the whole Swarm Community.  Please note that the main evolutions to be introduced in the Swarm L1B Algorithm are: i) computation of the Sun induced magnetic disturbance (dB_Sun) on the Absolute Scalar Magnetometer (ASM) and Vector Field Magnetometer (VFM) data; ii) computation of systematic offset between Langmuir Probes (LP) measurements ad ground observations derived from Incoherent Scatter Radars (IRS) located at middle, low, and equatorial latitudes. These and further improvements are planned to be included in the upcoming versions of the Swarm Level 1b products, aiming at achieving the best data quality for scientific applications.

How to cite: Qamili, E., Catapano, F., Tøffner-Clausen, L., Buchert, S., Siemes, C., Mizerska, A., Bregnhøj Nielsen, J., Nilsson, T., Miedzik, J., Mazzocato, M. E., Trenchi, L., Bouffard, J., Stromme, A., Vogel, P., and Hoyos ortega, B.: Swarm Mission: instruments performance, data availability, quality and future evolutions, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-15443, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15443, 2021.

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