Development and Dissemination of a Global Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Circulation Model

调查人员将继续开发一个全球磁层-电离层-热层耦合环流模型，并使科学界能够使用该模型。 该模型将被扩展，包括一个自适应网格，并将更加强大和用户友好。 广泛的测试、模型数据比较和建立模型性能的基线度量将是开发工作的一个组成部分。 模型结果将通过互联网提供给科学界，并将对选定的事件按需运行。 还提供了数据分析和可视化工具，以最佳利用该模型。 该项目还包括在加州大学洛杉矶分校购买、安装和维护一个新的Beowulf计算机集群。 该模型将用于研究太阳风扰动造成的空间气象影响。 这对于提高减轻太阳扰动对地球上技术系统的潜在危害的能力非常重要。

The investigators will continue development of a coupled global magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere circulation model and to make it accessible to the scientific community. The model will be expanded to include an adaptive mesh and will be made more robust and user friendly. Extensive testing, model-data comparisons, and establishing baseline metrics of the model's performance will be an integral part of the development effort. The model results will be made available to the scientific community via the Internet, and runs on demand will be executed for selected events. Data analysis and visualization tools are also provided to make optimal use of the model. The project also includes the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of a new Beowulf computer cluster at UCLA. The model will be used to study the space weather effects resulting from disturbances in the solar wind. This is important for improving the ability to mitigate the potential hazards on technical systems on earth due to solar disturbances.