Outline

  • Introduction
  • Disturbance field correction (magnetosphere)
  • Disturbance field correction (ionosphere)
  • EMAG2 crustal grid update

How to model the magnetosphere?

  • Model the “average” behavior of the various magnetospheric sources, and then modulate this with real-time indices such as
  • Dst (derived from ground observatories)
  • Solar wind data (ACE/DISCOVR)
  • F10.7 (solar flux)
  • Modeling approach from Maus and Lühr, GJI, 162, 2005.

Solar forecasting: Migration from ACE to DSCOVR

  • ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) launched Aug 1997
  • Quality of ACE data quickly degrading due to aging instruments and the space environment
  • DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) launched Feb 2015
  • Purpose: provide early warning of geomagnetic storms here on Earth
  • 15-60 minute warning time
  • DSCOVR measures solar wind with a cadence 120 times faster than ACE

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New Advances in Geomagnetic Field Modeling

 

Patrick Alken, Arnaud Chulliat, Manoj Nair, Brian Meyer, Rick Saltus, Adam Woods, Nir Boneh - University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO: National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA, Boulder, CO

Benny Poedjono - Schlumberger

 

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