Collaborative Research: Towards a GEM Geospace General Circulation Model -- Coupling Tail Dynamics and Inner Magnetospheric Transport

该项目是ATM-9901070(PI：J.Birn)的一个配套项目。这两个方案结合在一起，旨在产生一个关于地球磁尾以及该尾巴如何与内部磁层相互作用的计算机模型。它将把Birn和Hesse的Tail-MHD计算机程序与赖斯对流模型和磁摩擦程序结合起来。该模型将求解描述磁尾和等离子体片以及它们与内部磁层和电离层的耦合的一组封闭的偏微分方程组。最终，该计算机代码将被用作地球空间大气环流模型(GGCM)的模块，该模型是地球空间环境建模(GEM)计划的主要目标之一

This project is a companion to ATM-9901070 (PI: J. Birn). The two proposals taken together are designed to produce a computer model of the Earth's magnetotail and how the tail interacts with the inner magnetosphere. It will couple the tail-MHD computer code of Birn and Hesse with the Rice Convection Model and a magnetofriction code. The model will solve a closed set of partial differential equations which describe the magnetotail and the plasma sheet and their coupling to the inner magnetosphere and ionosphere. Ultimately this computer code will be used as a module for the Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM), which is one of the primary goals of the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program