Space Physics Models @ SwRI

• Airglow and Aurora
  • Atmosperic Ultraviolet Radiance Integrated Code (AURIC)
  • GLOW Electron Transport and Optical Emissions (Solomon)

• Chemistry
  • E-F₁ Region Ion-Neutral Chemistry (Link)
  • ionospheric chemistry (Zinn & Sutherland)
    - 58 species, 999 reactions, 50-1300 km

• Empirical Models
  • Auroral Electron and Ion Precipitation (PL-Geospace)
  • Composition and Temperature (MSISE-90)
  • International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF)
  • International Reference Ionosphere 1995 (IRI-95)
  • Marshall Engineering Thermosphere (MET)
  • Parameterized Ionospheric Model (PIM)
  • Horizontal Neutral Wind (HWM-93)

• Global Ionosphere/Thermosphere Models
  • Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE)
  • Next Generation Model for Space Weather Forecasting (TIME-GCM)

• Radiation Belt
  • NASA AE-8, AP-8
  • PL-Geospace

• Radiative Transfer
  • 2-Stream Feautrier and Monte Carlo (Gladstone)
  • Discrete Ordinates (Wiscombe)

• Radiation Transport
  • Cosmic Rays
    • Cosmic Ray Spectra, Fluxes, and Ionization (LUIN-II)
  • Electrons
    • Coupled Electron-Photon Transport, 1 keV - 100 MeV (CEPXS/ONELD)
    • Monte Carlo Electron Transport (Berger & Seltzer)
    • Multistream, 2-Stream & Local Equilibrium Photoelectron Models (Link)
    • 2-Stream Electron Transport (Waite)
  • Protons
    • Coupled Proton-Hydrogen Transport (Jasperse & Basu)
    • Proton Energy Deposition (Jackman)

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