There are two cases here: pure hydro and magneto-convection. The horizontal size is 96 Mm. The domain extends from about the temperature minimum down to 20 Mm below the optical depth unity surface. The Y-AXIS is the VERTICAL direction, pointing downward. The x-axis points east and the z-axis points north. The coordinate system is rotating at a rate corresponding to a lattidute of North 30 deg. Runs have different dimensions: 1000x500x1000 and 2016x500x2016, with resolution 96 and 47.6 km respectively horizontally. Vertical resolution is 12-80 km all. Horizontal boundaries are periodic. In the vertical direction there are 5 ghost zone boundary layers at top and bottom that are unphysical. In IDL the vertical physical region is iy=5,494. There are horizontal slices in Slices_hydro and Slices_mhd. Horizontal slices (in slices and slices_continued) are stored as IDL save files, with variables interpolated to 3 levels: tau_cont=1, 0.1, 0.01. Files are labeled by the time of the first slice (in units of 100 sec) since the magnetic field started to be advected in at the bottom. There are slices of V_x,y,z (in vv*.save) as well as the emergent continuum intensity (in int*.save). Variables are labeled as e.g. Vx1(tau=1),Vx01(tau=0.1),Vx001(tau=0.01). Slices are stored at 1 min intervals and the times are stored in the variable timet. Note: in some files timet[0] is incorrect. It should be that timet[0]=timet[1]-0.6. The units are: length: Mm=10^8 cm density: 10^-7 g/cm^3 time: 100 sec magnetic field: kG Thus derived unts are: velocity 10 km/s pressure 10^5 dyne/cm^2 energy per unit mass 10^12 erg/gm flux 10^11 erg/cm^2/s The grid is staggered with scalar variables: density, energy, temperature, pressure defined at the integer cell centers. The vectors: momenta, velocity, are defined at the integer-1/2 faces. Four hour averages (with 2 hour cadence) are in directory AVERS_hydro for the hydro case. There are averages of density, velocity, temperature, internal energy, sound speed. They are labeled with the start and end times. Raw data files (*.scr and *.dat), where available, are fortran direct access unformated files. Each snapshot has 6 variables: density, x,y,z-momenta, einternal energy per unit volume, temperature. They can be read using IDL as follows: openr,u,/get,'filename' a=assoc(u,fltarr(nx,500,nz)) rho=a[0] px=a[1] py=a[2] pz=a[3] d=a[4] t=a[5] Slices could be read as, e.g. r=a[*,34,*,0], where e.g. 34 is the depth index. The grid can be read in with the idl procedure: readmesh.pro For each axis it contains: cell centered increment, face centered increment, cell centered coordinate, face centered coordinate, 1/(derivative of cell centered coordinate), 1/(derivative face centered coordinate) The pressure, opacity and electron density are stored in the table 'table.dat' as a function of log(density) and internal energy per unit mass (e/rho). In IDL first do IDL> eos_table,'table.dat' to initialize, Pressure is IDL> p=exp(lookup(alog(rho),e/rho,iv=0)) Opacity is IDL> kappa=exp(lookup(alog(rho),e/rho,iv=1)) Electron density is IDL> ne=exp(lookup(alog(rho),e/rho,iv=3))