Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsm11a0804m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM11A-0804
Physics
2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2760 Plasma Convection, 2778 Ring Current, 2794 Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
One of the stumbling blocks to understanding particle transport in the magnetosphere has been the difficulty to follow, track and model the motion of ions through the realistic magnetic and electric fields of the Earth. Under the weak assumption that the first two invariants remain conserved, Whipple [1978] found a coordinate transformation that makes all charged particles travel on straight lines in UBK-space. The transform permits the quantitative calculation of conservative phase space transport for all particles with energies less than ~100 MeV, especially ring current energies (Sheldon and Gaffey [1993]). Furthermore Sheldon and Eastman [1997] showed how this transform extended the validity of diffusion models to realistic magnetospheres over the entire energy range. However, widespread usage of this transform has been limited by its non-intuitive UBK coordinates. We present a Virtual Reality Meta Language (VRML) interface to the calculation of UBK transform demonstrating its usefulness in describing both static features of the magnetosphere, such as the plasmapause, and dynamic features, such as ring current injection and loss. The core software is written in C for speed, whereas the interface is constructed in Perl and Javascript. The code is freely available, and intended for portability and modularity. R.B. Sheldon and T. Eastman ``Particle Transport in the Magnetosphere: A New Diffusion Model", GRL, 24(7), 811-814, 1997. Whipple, Jr, E. C. ``(U,B,K) coordinates: A natural system for studying magnetospheric convection". JGR, 83, 4318-4326, 1978. Sheldon, R. B. and J. D. Gaffey, Jr. ``Particle tracing in the magnetosphere: New algorithms and results." GRL, 20, 767-770, 1993.
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Sheldon Robert Bruce
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