An updated auroral conductance module is built for global models, using nonlinear regression & empirical adjustments to span extreme events., Expanded dataset raises the ceiling of conductance values, impacting the ionospheric potential dB/dt & dB predictions during extreme events., and Application of the expanded model with empirical adjustments refines the conductance pattern, and improves dB/dt predictions significantly.
Mukhopadhyay, A., Welling, D. T., Liemohn, M. W., Ridley, A. J., Chakraborty, S., & Anderson, B. J. (2020). Conductance Model for Extreme Events: Impact of Auroral Conductance on Space Weather Forecasts. Space Weather, 18(11), e2020SW002551. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002551
Data used in the paper "Theory of Magnetic Switchbacks Fully Supported by Parker Solar Probe Observations" by G. Toth, M. Velli and B. van der Holst, ApJ 2023.
The Observations directory contains the PSP observations as simple text files that can be easily read by the IDL macros in the BATSRUS/share/IDL/General/ or any other plotting software.
The Simulations directory contains BATSRUS simulations including input and output files. The runlog files show the Git references. The output files are in binary format that can be read by the IDL macros in the BATSRUS/share/IDL/General/ or with the SpacePy software.
The BATSRUS directory contains the source code that can be used to reproduce the simulations.
G. Toth, M. Velli, B. van der Holst, 2023, Theory of Magnetic Switchbacks Fully Supported by Parker Solar Probe Observations, The Astrophysical Journal, in press
