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Python-based Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software
https://pyspedas.readthedocs.io/
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Polynomial reconstruction of 3-D magnetic fields #727

Open jameswilburlewis opened 9 months ago

jameswilburlewis commented 9 months ago

Denton [2020] describes some techniques using MMS magnetic field observations and current density estimates (via the curlometer technique) to perform higher order (quadratic and cubic) reconstructions of magnetic fields near reconnection areas. I imagine there might be some interest in having these available in PySPEDAS.

It seems like being able to do MDD (minimum directional derivative) calculations might be a prerequisite, in order to establish a local LMN boundary coordinate system. See https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas/issues/728

Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JA027481

IDL and Matlab polynomial reconstruction code: https://zenodo.org/records/3906854