SH51B-2450
LEO Plasma Modeling Augmented with in-situ measurements
Friday, 18 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Gabriel Wilson, US Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, United States, Robert K Schaefer, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Gary Bust, John Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Matthew G McHarg, United States Air Force Academy, Department of Physics, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Abstract:
We use the Applied Physics Lab Ionospheric Data Assimilation Four Dimensional (IDA4D) model to analyze ionospheric response to a solar storm over the period of 17-18 March, 2015. We injest ion density data from the integrated Miniturized Electrostatic Analyzer (iMESA) flying on the STPSat-3 satellite over the same time period and compare results of the model with an without the in-situ measurements.
