Hi folks,
Between AGU and my departure for the holidays I was experimenting
with plots of the SEP Index vs. GOES proton data. Someone correctly
pointed out that it made more sense to plot PEAK(SEPI) vs. PEAK
(PFU), rather than Integrated(SEPI) vs. PEAK(PFU), as I had been
doing earlier. Well ... if anything the peak vs. peak plot may not
look quite as convincing, and that's obviously why it was then
suggested to re-bin the SEPI data to 5 minutes.
I also experimented with fitting various types of functions to the
data, and then using that function to make artificial PFU values for
the small events so that they can be included on the plot. I'm not
sure how convincing that is, either. Perhaps it would be best to
list the smaller events (that aren't in the GOES/NOAA tables) in a
table of our own, and only plot SEPI vs. PFU for the larger events?