Ionospheric Poynting Flux and Joule Heating Modeling Challenge: Latest Results and New Models.

Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ja Soon Shim, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Delores Knipp, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Yihua Zheng, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Russell B Cosgrove, SRI International San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, Patrick T Newell, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, Daniel R Weimer, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States and Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States
Abstract:
Poynting Flux and Joule Heating in the ionosphere – latest results from the challenge and updates at the CCMC. With the addition of satellite tracking and display features in the online analysis tool and at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), we are now able to obtain Poynting flux and Joule heating values from a wide variety of ionospheric models. In addition to Poynting fluxes derived from electric and magnetic field measurements from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites for a recent modeling challenge, we can now use a Poynting Flux model derived from FAST satellite observations for comparison. Poynting Fluxes are also correlated using Ovation Prime maps of precipitation patterns during the same time periods to assess how “typical” the events in the challenge are.
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