ASCII file contents

The and define the contents of the ASCII files that we are going to plot. We assume that you have a file for each station containing three components of displacement; as set using the format and channels options in inparam.source.yaml.

Rather than saving the time series (i.e. the list of timesteps) within each file, this is stored separately in a file called data_time.ascii. This should be a single column of floating point numbers, each of which is a different point in the time series. The first one is probably slightly negative, as AxiSEM3D ramps up the source time function before the zero time index on the simulation. The final entry should be roughly what you set the record length to be in inparam.output.yaml.

If you have not changed the station list, you should have a series of other files. For example, in the folder global_seismic_network_GSN/, you should have a series of stations, for example IU.TEIG.ascii. These are your station files, and the number of columns in each (and the order) will depend on the channels options you set in inparam.output.yaml. If you used [U], you should end up with three components, in the order R, T, Z if you used coordinate_frame = RTZ.