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Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere.
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 201. Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System brings together for the first time a detailed description of the physics of the IT system in conjunction with numerical techniques to solve the complex sys...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2014.
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| Colección: | Geophysical monograph ;
201. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Modeling the Ionosphere- Thermosphere System; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Section I: Physical Processes; Ionosphere-Thermosphere Physics: Current Status and Problems; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MISSINGPHYSICSINGLOBALPHYSICS-BASEDIONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHEREMODELS; 3. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Physical Characteristics and Modeling of Earth's Thermosphere; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE GAS LAW AND HYDROSTATIC BALANCE; 3. CONTINUITY EQUATION; 4. LAGRANGIAN VERSUS EULERIAN FRAMESOF REFERENCE; 5. HORIZONTALLY STRATIFIED FLUID AND OTHERCOMMON ASSUMPTION; 6. CORIOLIS EFFECT; 7. VISCOUS DRAG; 8. ION DRAG.
- 9. MOMENTUM EQUATION10. ENERGY EQUATIONS; 11. NEUTRAL COMPOSITION; 12. GLOBAL WIND, TEMPERATURE, DENSITY, AND COMPOSITION STRUCTURE; 13. THERMAL EXPANSION; 14. NEUTRAL COMPOSITION BULGE; 15. WINDS AND NONLINEARITIESAT HIGH LATITUDE; 16. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Solar Cycle Changes in the Photochemistry of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. RESULTS; 3. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Energetics and Composition in the Thermosphere; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DATA AND MODELS THAT HAVE INCREASEDOUR UNDERSTANDING OF; 3. THE CONTINUITY EQUATION, THE ENERGYEQUATION, AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS.
- 4. THE CAUSES OF TEMPERATURE VARIATIONSIN THE LOW AND MIDDLE LATITUDES OFTHE UPPER THERMOSPHERE DURINGGEOMAGNETIC STORMS5. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Section II: Numerical Methods; Numerical Methods in Modeling the Ionosphere; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GENERAL EQUATIONS; 3. FIELD-ALIGNED DYNAMICS; 4. CROSS-FIELD DYNAMICS; 5. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Ionospheric Electrodynamics Modeling; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EQUATIONS OF IONOSPHERICELECTRODYNAMICS; 3. MODELING IONOSPHEREMAGNETOSPHERECOUPLING; 4. MODELING IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITIES; 5. MODELING THERMOSPHERIC WINDS; 6. PLASMA GRAVITY AND PRESSUREGRADIENTCURRENTS.
- 6. PLASMA GRAVITY AND PRESSUREGRADIENTCURRENTS7. SOLVING FOR THE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; 8. IONOSPHERIC CURRENT SYSTEM ANDGEOMAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS; 9. FUTURE DIRECTIONS; REFERENCES; Section III: IT Models; The NCAR TIE-GCM: A Community Model of the Coupled Thermosphere/Ionosphere System; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MODEL DEVELOPMENT HISTORY; 3. MODEL DESCRIPTION; 4. SOME MODEL VALIDATION EXAMPLES; 5. FUTURE IMPROVEMENTAND DEVELOPMENT PLANS; REFERENCES; The Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model and the Nonhydrostatics Processes; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GLOBAL IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHERE MODEL.
- 3. NONHYDROSTATIC PROCESSES4. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION; APPENDIX A: EQUATIONS IN GITM MODEL; REFERENCES; Traveling Atmospheric Disturbance and Gravity Wave Coupling in the Thermosphere; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GLOBAL THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE MODEL; 3. SIMULATION SETUP; 4. SIMULATION RESULTS; 5. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Air Force Low-Latitude Ionospheric Model in Support of the C/NOFS Mission; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MODEL DESCRIPTION AND OUTPUT; 3. A STATISTICAL STUDY OF LOW-LATITUDEIONOSPHERIC DENSITIES; 4. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; Long-Term Simulations of the Ionosphere Using SAMI3.