Theoretical Investigation of Magnetospheric Convection

这个项目的中心是使用水稻对流模式 (RCM)研究地球的磁层及其与 电离层和热层。 计算机实验基于 交互式地将RCM与 热层应允许确定热层是否 风会严重影响 磁气圈的暴时环电流 组合 磁层-电离层-热层模拟也将 针对中低纬度地区的动力学行为， 电离层电场，它移动电离层F层 并影响其结构。 利用新开发的 辐射带表示用计算机 粒子，场向电位降，电荷交换 中性粒子、极光降水和与亚暴有关的坍缩 磁尾磁场的计算机实验， RCM将探索这些过程对基本 磁层现象，特别是亚暴和风暴。

This project centers on use of the Rice Convection Model (RCM) to study the Earth's magnetosphere and its coupling to the ionosphere and thermosphere. Computer experiments based in interactively combining the RCM with numerical models of the thermosphere should allow determination of whether thermospheric winds can substantially affect the injection of the magnetosphere's storm-time ring current. Combined magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere simulations will also be directed at the dynamic behavior of the low-mid-latitude ionospheric electric fields, which move the ionospheric F-layer and affect its structure. Utilizing newly developed computational machinery for representation of radiation-belt particles, field-aligned potential drops, charge exchange with neutrals, auroral precipitation, and substorm-associated collapse of the magnetotail magnetic field, computer experiments with the RCM will probe the effects of these processes on basic magnetospheric phenomena, particularly substorms and storms.