SAMI3 ICON: Model of the Ionosphere/Plasmasphere System

Abstract

The NRL ionosphere/plasmasphere model SAMI3 has been modified to support the NASA ICON mission. Specifically, SAMI3_ICON has been modified to import the thermospheric composition, temperature, and winds from TIEGCM-ICON and the high-latitude potential from AMIE data. The codes will be run on a daily basis during the ICON mission to provide ionosphere and thermosphere properties to the science community. SAMI3_ICON will provide ionospheric and plasmaspheric parameters such as the electron and ion densities, temperatures, and velocities, as well as the total electron content (TEC), peak ionospheric electron density (NmF2) and height of the F layer at NmF2 (hmF2).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1115973

Entities

People

  • A. Maute
  • G. Crowley
  • Joseph D. Huba

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrodynamics
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Grids
  • High Latitudes
  • Ion Density
  • Ionosphere
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnetic Storms
  • Measurement
  • Plasmas (Physics)
  • Plasmasphere
  • Polar Regions
  • Solar Wind
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics