Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM)

The NCAR TIEGCM is a time dependent, three-dimensional model of the thermosphere and ionosphere that solves the fully coupled, nonlinear, hydrodynamic, thermodynamic, and continuity equations of the neutral gas self-consistently with the ion energy, ion momentum, and ion continuity equations using a finite differencing scheme for spatial and temporal variations (Roble et al., 1988, Richmond et al., 1992). It has 25 constant-pressure levels in the vertical extending from approximately 97 km to 500 km in altitude and a 5o x 50 degree latitude and longitude grid in its base configuration.

CISM utilizes the TIEGCM to model the Thermosphere and Ionosphere as part of the Coupled Magnetospherer-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (CMIT) model.

Electron Density animation:

This movie shows the change in electron density computed by TIEGCM as simualtion time advances. You may see rendering artifacts in this animation. These are a result of the video compression that YouTube uses and not part of the original data. The high-resolution version does not have these artifacts. Click here to download a high-resolution version of this movie

Links

High Altitude Observatory - National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000, Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80307 U.S.A.
303-497-1527
To report errors, please e-mail Peter Schmitt.