The commands to run the IDL/SolarSoft scripts to generate Fig. 8:

IDL> Dst_vs_NumMagStormIndex_fig7, 'KEDim_06042000Storm.dat', 'Dst_Final_06042000Storm.sav' ; For the top figure

After running this command, please enter 06-APR-00 12:00:00.000 for the Base Time.

- Uncomment the lines related to 20 November 2003 and comment out the lines related to 06 April 2000.

IDL> Dst_vs_NumMagStormIndex_fig7, 'KEDim_20112003Storm.dat', 'Dst_Final_20112003Storm.sav' ; For the bottom figure

After running this command, please enter 20-NOV-03 05:00:00.000 for the Base Time.

- fig7.mcr is used to calculate the total particle kinetic energy in the ring current from Tecplot solution files.