1. WHISPER action items Gábor Facskó, Jean-Gabriel Trotignon,Séna Kougblénou, Xavier Vallières, Guillaume Lointier LPC 2 E/CNRS, Orléans, France 10th CAA Cross-Calibration Meeting Obs. de Paris, France 2-4 November 2009 3A, Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, 45071 Orléans cedex 2, France, tel: (+33/0) 2.38.25.52.60, fax: (+33/0) 2.38.63.12.34, gfacsko@cnrs-orleans.fr

2. Outlook Team status Production status reprocessing Action items –CC9-AI-3: EDI-FGM-WHISPER –CC9-AI-15: CIS CODIF-PEACE-WHISPER

3. Team status The CAA Research Associate, G. Facskó is responsible for CAA and Cross Calibration activities with the assistance of the WHISPER Team. Internal WHISPER team: –S. Kougblénou and G. Lointier (WHISPER engineers under CNES contract) –X. Vallières (WHISPER lead engineer – part time)

4. Production status The density production schedule depends on the mass archive production by CNES (to create CEF files). Current status –Mass archive → delivered → March 2008/ready until June –Density archive → delivered → June 2008 From May 2008 only density from WHISPER low-cut off can be produced, EFW data being unavailable EFW is necessary for method 11E (low-cut off+EFW) and method 21E (EFW recalibration) New/improved Density Files will be delivered whenever EFW data are available

5. Production status (cont’d) Next deadline: February 2010 Current schedule –Mass archive → June 2009 –Density archive → End of 2008 Estimated delay –mass archive: 12 months to be produced by CNES in 4 months (no significant delay foreseen) –Density (CEF file production depends on mass archive) → 6 months to be produced (EFW?)

6. Several problems encountered with some of the mass archive files –Bug in the archive software corresponding to a particular case (20061006-SC2) of a frequency table non entirely swept : bug corrected and file re- delivered – errors in the « Spectral_Frequencies » parameter (PR09-WHI16) –« Compressed_Data_size » parameter not consistent with header description Reprocessing software has been developed: reprocessing will be done at CNES not before Feb 2010, due to planning constraints. Density files to be reprocessed (PR09-WHI14), ongoing. Reprocessing

7. CC9-AI-15: WHISPER-CIS-PEACE comparison to study: (a) 2003-3-1, 3-4 UT, and to find the reason for density drops in the automated pipeline routine, and (b) 2003-10-1, 19-20 UT, and to find if any resonances/cut-offs can be observed for the density determination

8. OR4-R12 PR09-ALL01 PR09-ALL03 PR09-ALL05 PR09-ALL06 PR09-ALL12 PR09-ALL13 PR09-WHI01 PR09-WHI02 PR09-WHI03 PR09-WHI04 PR09-WHI06 PR09-WHI09 PR09-WHI10 PR09-WHI11 PR09-WHI12 PR09-WHI18 UG, CR, ICD will be completed and improved following recommendations AIs relative to documentation (or partially)

9. PR09-ALL02:For nearly all datasets there is a reference to dataset caveats (C*_CQ_*) but in nearly all cases no such datasets exist… R: WHISPER will provide dataset caveats. Draft has been sent for approval.

10. PR09-WHI05 WHISPER calibration softwares use 100m antenna effective length instead of the 88m physical length that is used by all other WEC experiments… R: Internal WHISPER calibration uses a 100m tip-to-tip antenna length whereas CAA data products actually use a 88m tip-to-tip antenna length for calibration, as all other WEC instruments. The user guide contains an error concerning the CAA products (except for PPDBs where the antenna length used is 100m). The user guide will be updated and this length will be documented in the PPDB CEF headers.

11. CC9-AI-3 to produce the complete set of electron gyro-frequenies for years 2004 and beyond R: gyro-frequencies for 2005 plasmaspheric passes have been delivered very recently to the FGM team. 2004 is ready to be delivered. Results to be analyzed.

12. CC9-AI-15: WHISPER-CIS-PEACE comparison to study: (a) 2003-3-1, 3-4 UT, and to find the reason for density drops in the automated pipeline routine, and (b) 2003-10-1, 19-20 UT, and to find if any resonances/cut-offs can be observed for the density determination Already presented (previous talk)

13. Conclusion AIs are on the way to be covered Many of them are related to documentation Mass archives reprocessing needed Density archives reprocessing needed (Quality  Contrast) Next delivery deadline (Feb. 2010): no delay Still open AIs

14. Thank you for your attention!