This dataset represents a theta aurora case study in which we simulated a specific theta aurora event observed by IMAGE spacecraft on 15 May 2005. The IMAGE observations and the Wind solar wind observations can be found via cdaweb. We simulate eight hours of the event with SWMF Geospace on the Great Lakes HPC cluster (15 May 2005 0020 UT - 0820 UT). We use the log output files to plot the simulation SYM-H and AL indices using a python script. We use the IDL output files to plot the IE simulation results - we focus on timesteps 0531 UT, 0539 UT, and 0602 UT - using the same python script. The BATSRUS portion (MHD) of the simulation framework produces 3D output files (extension .dat) in ascii. We use Tecplot 360 2021 R2 preplot script to convert the 3D output files into binary (extension .plt) for analysis. We use Tecplot 360 2021 R2 software to view the 3D output files in the Tecplot 360 2021 R2 GUI. We focus the analysis of the 3D output files on timesteps 0531 UT and 0602 UT. We use a python script to extract information from the 3D output files and plot in 2D with the IE data.
