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GENESIS LEVEL 2 DATA
AND THEIR APPROPRIATE USE
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The Genesis Science team is pleased by your interest in the Genesis solar wind data!
For general help, or answers to specific questions, please get in touch with us: 
Send email to gnsteam@lanl.gov 
or refer to contact list at http://genesis.lanl.gov/contact_list.html.

Checked and verified Genesis solar wind parameters are issued as Level 2 data. The 
Level 2 data are openly available and intended for scientific study. We encourage you 
to consult members of the Genesis Science Team when using these data. If you make use 
of any Genesis data in presentations or papers, we ask that you acknowledge Roger Wiens 
and the Los Alamos Genesis Science Team. In addition, we would appreciate your sending 
copies of any presentations and publications that make use of the Genesis data. By 
doing so you will help us to keep a record all scientific use of the Genesis data, so 
that we can report to NASA, our sponsor, the value and scientific impact of the Genesis 
mission.

Data values -9999, -9999., and variants (-9.999E+03, -1.00E+04, etc.) indicate 
indeterminate or invalid data.

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Level 2 Parameters 
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year
doy (day of year)
hour
min
sec
decimal doy (decimal day of year)
proton density cm-3 
   typical_valid_range  ...  	 0.01 - 150.
proton temperature K
   typical_valid_range  ...  	 1.e3 - 2.e6
proton speed km/s
   typical_valid_range	250 - 1200
proton velocity gse km/s
   typical_valid_range	0 - 1200
proton velocity rtn km/s
   typical_valid_range	0 -1200
alpha proton ratio
   typical_valid_range	0.001 - 0.3
genesis location gse km
   typical_valid_range	0.0 - 2.e6
heliographic lon degrees
   typical_valid_range	0.0 - 360.0
heliographic lat degrees
   typical_valid_range	-90.0 - 90.0
bde 
   typical_valid_range	0-1