Notes from the 11/3/03 WG meeting:
Participants from BU,
Dartmouth, NCAR, Rice and
SWRI
1) M. Hudson gave an update on the formation and
planned activities of a GEM GGCMCC (Geospace General Circulation Model
Coordinating Committee) resulting from the GGCM coordinating committee meeting
held at Dartmouth in October.
2) J. Gagne, W. Lotko discussed some very preliminary
results on development of a diagnostic for field-aligned Poynting flux near the
inner boundary of LFM. This work is a prelude to developing a causal relation
for ionospheric outflow from TING to LFM.
3) VALIDATION ISSUES: G. Crowley described ideas
for validation of thermospheric models, starting with diagnostics for the most
sensitive aspects of thermospheric modeling including global mean temperature
and latitudinal and longitudinal NCIS temperature profiles at various altitudes.
Examine effects of high-latitude inputs such as convection and particle
precipitation on temperature. Examination of neutral winds would also be
useful. A good plasmaspheric model is needed for meaningful comparisons with TEC
diagnostics. Ground-based diagnostics should be exploited especially incoherent
scatter radar measurements to determine observed deviations from NCIS
predictions and ionosonde measurements for F region deviations. J. Hughes
cautioned that ISR radar data is also model dependent. S. Solomon suggests
comparing measured particle precipitation patterns and energy flux patterns with
LFM results and with empirical models because these are the critical causal
inputs from LFM to
TING.