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CIMI (20200203)

Comprehensive Inner-Magnetosphere Ionosphere (CIMI) Model

Model Description

The Comprehensive Inner-Magnetosphere Ionosphere (CIMI) model is a bounce-averaged kinetic model of the ring current and radiation belts. This model calculates the temporal and spatial variation of the phase space density of ring current and radiation belt species: H+ and O+ in the energy range of 0.1 - 400 keV and electrons (e-) in the energy range of 1 - 4000 keV. The model considers particle drift in realistic, time-varying magnetic field, and self-consistent electric field that is solved taking into account current closure in the ionosphere. CIMI also considers charge exchange loss, energy and pitch-angle diffusion due to whistler mode chorus waves and plasmaspheric hiss. The simulation region is from the dayside magnetopause to the nightside boundary at 10-15 earth radii. The model is an initial-boundary-value problem, so initial distribution and boundary distribution as a function of time are required to run the model.

CIMI can be coupled with global MHD models. This type of code merging has been done with CIMI's predecessors: the CRCM (Comprehensive Ring Current Model) and RBE (Radiation Belt Environment) model [e.g., Glocer et al., 2011, 2013]. 

CIMI is thus a powerful tool for studying the dynamics of the ring current, radiation belts, and plasmasphere along with how they respond to solar wind input and their couplings with the ionosphere. Besides its various science applications, it also has great space weather potential. 

Model Figure(s) :

Model Inputs Description

3D Magnetic Fields (Selection of Tsyganenko field models)

Ionospheric Electric Potentials at CIMI poleward boundary at 70.3° magnetic latitude (e.g., Weimer 2005)

Ionospheric quiet-time conductances (F10.7 solar irradiation index) and auroral conductances (Kp driven)

Solar wind speed, density and magnetic field, Dst, AE, AL index values to obtain plasma boundary conditions and drive the wave power model and magnetic field model

Model Outputs Description

Equatorial H+, O+ and e- fluxes as functions of time, energy and pitch angle. Fluxes at off-equator can be obtained by mapping flux along a field line according to the equatorial pitch-angle distribution.

Plasmasphere density

Ionospheric potentials, Region 2 field aligned current and electron precipitation.

Model Caveats

Strengths: Combine the strengths of the Comprehensive Ring Current Model (CRCM) and the Radiation Belt Environment (RBE) model.
Limitations: This version of CIMI uses empirical magnetic field models of T96 or T04. It does not consider the magnetic perturbation from the ring current and the transport due to MHD waves.

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Model Acknowledgement/Publication Policy (if any)


	
	
	

Model Domains:

Geospace
Magnetosphere.Inner_Magnetosphere.RingCurrent
Magnetosphere.Inner_Magnetosphere.RadiationBelt

Space Weather Impacts:

Near-earth radiation and plasma environment (aerospace assets functionality)

Phenomena :

Ultra_Low_Frequency_Waves
Whistler_Chorus_Waves
Plasmaspheric_Hiss
Electromagnetic_Ion_Cyclotron_Waves
Other_Tyes_of_Waves
Wave-particle_Interactions
Particle_Dynamics
Plasmasphere/Plasmapause_Dynamics
Inner_Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere_Coupling
Inner_Magnetosphere_and_Outer_Magnetosphere/Tail_Coupling
Seed_Population_for_the_Ring_Current_and_Radiation_Belt/Preconditioning

Simulation Type(s):

Physics-based
Physics-based.Kinetic

Temporal Dependence Possible? (whether the code results depend on physical time?)

true

Model is available at?

CCMC

Source code of the model is publicly available?

false

CCMC Model Status (e.g. onboarding, use in production, retired, only hosting output, only source is available):

production

Code Language:


Regions (this is automatically mapped based on model domain):

Earth.Magnetosphere
Earth.Magnetosphere.RadiationBelt

Contacts :

Mei-Ching.H.Fok, ModelDeveloper
Natalia.Buzulukova, ModelDeveloper
Lutz.Rastaetter, ModelHostContact

Acknowledgement/Institution :

Relevant Links :

CIMI's Science and Space Weather Applications (with examples/graphics): https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/static/files/CIMI-applications.pdf

Publications :

  • Fok, M.-C., R. A. Wolf, R. W. Spiro, and T. E. Moore, Comprehensive computational model of the Earth's ring current, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 8417-8424, 2001.
  • Fok, M.-C., A. Glocer, Q. Zheng, R. B. Horne, N. P. Meredith, J. M. Albert, and T. Nagai, Recent developments in the radiation belt environment model, J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 73 (2011), 1435-1443.
  • Fok, M.-C., N. Y. Buzulukova, S.-H. Chen, A. Glocer, T. Nagai, P. Valek, and J. D. Perez (2014), The Comprehensive Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Model, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 7522-7540, doi:10.1002/2014JA020239.
  • Glocer, A., M.‐C. Fok, T. Nagai, G. Tóth, T. Guild, and J. Blake (2011), Rapid rebuilding of the outer radiation belt, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A09213, doi: 10.1029/2011JA016516.
  • Glocer, A., M. Fok, X. Meng, G. Toth, N. Buzulukova, S. Chen, and K. Lin (2013), CRCM + BATS-R-US two way coupling, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, 1635–1650, doi:10.1002/jgra.50221.
  • Buzulukova, N., Fok, M.-C., Pulkkinen, A., Kuznetsova, M., Moore, T. E., Glocer, A., Brandt, P. C., Tóth, G., and Rastätter, L. (2010), Dynamics of ring current and electric fields in the inner magnetosphere during disturbed periods: CRCM–BATS-R-US coupled model, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A05210, doi:10.1029/2009JA014621.
  • Model Access Information :

    Access URL: https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/requests/IM/user_registration.php?model=CIMI
    Access URL Name: Runs-on-Request
    Repository ID: spase://CCMC/Repository/NASA/GSFC/CCMC
    Availability: online
    AccessRights: OPEN
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