Plasma Dynamics in the Solar Wind Driven Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System

该项目将继续开发地球磁层-电离层系统的风驱动磁层-电离层模型。 该模型是对复杂电动系统的一种基于非线性电路的简化。 这种方法是从根本上不同的磁流体动力学（MHD）的建模工作，在过去的十年中，通常用于模拟磁层及其与太阳风的相互作用。 该项目将侧重于分析磁层亚暴，特别是将审查地球空间环境建模方案中选定进行研究的事件。

This project will continue the development of the Wind Driven Magnetospheric-Ionospheric (WINDMI) model of the Earth's magnetosphere-ionosphere system. The model is a non-linear circuit-based simplification of the complex electrodynamic system. This approach is radically different from the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling efforts that have commonly been used in the last decade for modeling the magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind. The project will concentrate on the analysis of magnetospheric substorms and in particular will examine the events chosen for study in the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program.