Our community benefits from decades of in situ measurements stored across international public archives. Exploring these databases and searching for plasma process signatures remains a bottleneck — not only due to the massive amount of data, but also its intrinsic complexity. Even accessing a single instrument raises technical hurdles: finding where to get data, how to download it, and how to read it. These compound for multi-mission studies across archives.
We present SciQLop, an open-source ecosystem of interoperable tools that removes these barriers.
Speasy provides a unified Python API to access over 65,000 products from AMDA, CDAWeb, CSA, SSCWeb, and CDPP 3DView through a single get_data() call, with transparent multi-level caching (local and shared community proxy), automatic inventory discovery with auto-completion, and native NumPy/SciPy/Pandas interoperability. It is also available in Julia.
CDFpp/PyCDFpp is a modern, thread-safe C++ CDF implementation with Python bindings, achieving up to 4 GB/s read speeds — addressing the legacy NASA library's lack of thread safety and licensing issues. Combined with PyISTP for ISTP-compliant access, it forms the ecosystem's data I/O foundation.
SciQLop is an interactive application built on a custom C++ plotting engine (SciQLopPlots) optimized for large non-uniform datasets. Researchers can browse and label multivariate time series with fluid interaction on gigabyte-scale data. Features include drag-and-drop discovery from all supported archives, user-defined virtual products recomputed on-the-fly, graphical event cataloging (tscat), and JupyterLab integration for hybrid workflows. Upcoming: CRDT-based collaborative catalog co-editing (cocat) and a community plugin marketplace.
These tools directly serve the ATST community: multi-spacecraft comparison for plasma envelope coupling studies, rapid event identification for eruptive activity, and streamlined multi-archive access for Sun-Earth and space weather investigations. All tools are open-source, pip-installable, and supported by CDPP and Plas@Par.

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