July 30 - August 3

Chunming was gone all week in Florida, but I was tasked with learning the magnetic reconnection data acquisition code from Dr. Jiong Qiu. It was difficult at first since the process was four seemingly complicated steps, but I quickly learned. The idea was to compare the peak reconnection flux rate of some events with the acceleration profiles I've already obtained. I quickly noticed the peaks line up perfectly! It's crazy because the kinematics profiles were based off of STEREO satellite data while the reconnection data was based off of the SDO satellite, and even then, the peaks lined up perfectly! I now need to identify ~10 events to compare... I've attached an example of reconnection data below: