;+ ; PROCEDURE: calc_pdyn ; ; PURPOSE: This procedure calculates the solar wind dynamic pressure from proton speed and proton density, accounting for contributions from both ; protons and alpha particles. Previous SPEDAS code only accounted for protons. OMNIweb provides a "Pressure" data set that assumes ; f_alpha = N_a/N_p = 0.05, which according to Vassilis may be a little high. This routine accepts an f_alpha parameter, whicb defaults to 0.04. ; ; ; ; INPUTS: ; N_p: Solar wind ion density (rho) cm^-3 ; V_p: proton velocity (km/sec) ;; ; Returns: ; Dynamic pressure in units of nPa, suitable for passing to GEOPACK field models ; ; KEYWORDS: ; ; speed(optional): set this if Vp_tvar is stored as a speed ; ; Notes: ; Derivation of Alpha particle pressure correction is here: https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpbrowser/bow_derivation.html ; ; $LastChangedBy: jwl $ ; $LastChangedDate: 2021-07-28 18:16:15 -0700 (Wed, 28 Jul 2021) $ ; $LastChangedRevision: 30156 $ ; $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_6_1/external/IDL_GEOPACK/calc_pdyn.pro $ ;- function calc_pdyn,N_p=N_p,V_p=V_p,f_alpha=f_alpha COMPILE_OPT idl2 den = N_p spd = V_p ; Solar wind dynamic pressure (Pdyn parameter for GEOPACK) ; Previous version only accounted for contribution by protons, not alphas, and were not consistent (off by a factor of 1.2) with ; OMNI pressure data. ; ; Derivation of Alpha particle pressure correction is here: https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpbrowser/bow_derivation.html ; ; JWL 2021-06-09 if n_elements(f_alpha) eq 0 then f_alpha=0.04D ; Ratio of alphas to protons. OMNI assumes 5%; we'll use a sligtly lower default of 4% alpha_correction = 1 + 4.0D * f_alpha ; 4.0 = mass of alpha particle in AMU. Assumes V_alpha = V_proton. pram = alpha_correction * 1.667e-6*den*spd^2 ; 1.667e-6 = proton mass times unit conversions to give result in nPa return, pram end