RPW data description

RPW data description

Following documents can be read to have a full description of the RPW data products.

• RPW Data Products Description Document (html or pdf) gives a technical description of the RPW data products available from the Solar Orbiter Archive of the ESAC Science Data Centre.
• RPW Data User Manual gives a short science-oriented description of the RPW L2 science data products and how to use them.
• Metadata Definition for Solar Orbiter Science Data presents the metatada definition of the Solar Orbiter science data products, including RPW.

Copies of the documents can also be retrieved from the Solar Orbiter Public Wiki.

RPW science data quality

RPW CDF files provide information about the quality of the science data.

• The QUALITY_FLAG CDF_UINT1 zVariable gives for each CDF record a human readable high level information about the quality with the following values:

• The QUALITY_BITMASK and L2_QUALITY_BITMASK CDF_UINT2 zVariables store a computer readable quality information used to assess the quality of data. Visit https://confluence-lesia.obspm.fr/display/ROC/RPW+Data+Quality+Verification for the bit meaning at L1 and L2 levels.

• The CAVEATS global attribute can be also edited by the RPW team to notify data users about specific caveats