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Ovation-Prime (1.0)

Ovation-Prime

Model Description

The OVATION Prime model was developed using energetic particle measurements from the polarorbiting Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites and considers four types of aurorae: two types of discrete electron aurorae (1A: monoenergetic and 1B: broadband) and two types of diffuse aurorae (2A: electron and 2B: ion) [Newell et al., 2010]. The OVATION Prime model is written in IDL and was developed at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) by Patrick Newell and co-workers. The model may be freely downloaded from SourceForge.

Ovation Prime provides statistical distribution of auroral precipitation in the ionosphere obtained from 11 years of DMSP electrostatic analyzer data. Observations have been binned by magnetic local time and latitude and by solar wind parameters (Vx, By, Bz, N).

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  • Ovation-Prime 1.0 sample output diagram 1
  • Ovation-Prime 1.0 sample output diagram 2
  • Ovation-Prime 1.0 sample output diagram 3
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    Model Domains:

    High_Latitude_Ionosphere/Auroral_Region

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    Phenomena :

    Simulation Type(s):

    Empirical

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

    false

    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):

    retired

    Code Language:

    IDL

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

    Earth.NearSurface.AuroralRegion

    Contacts :

    Patrick.Newell, ModelDeveloper
    Lutz.Rastaetter, ModelHostContact
    Yihua.Zheng, ModelHostContact

    Acknowledgement/Institution :

    Relevant Links :

    Model Download Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ovation-prime/

    Publications :

  • Machol, J. L., J. C. Green, R. J. Redmon, R. A. Viereck, and P. T. Newell (2012), Evaluation of OVATION Prime as a Forecast Model for Visible Aurorae, Space Weather, 10, S03005, doi:10.1029/2011SW000746.
  • Newell, P.T., T. Sotirelis, K. Liou, C.-I. Meng, and F.J. Rich (2007), A nearly universal solar windmagnetosphere coupling function inferred from 10 magnetospheric state variables, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A01206, doi:10.1029/2006JA012015.
  • Newell, P. T., T. Sotirelis, and S. Wing (2009), Diffuse, monoenergetic, and broadband aurora: The global precipitation budget, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A09207, doi:10.1029/2009JA014326.
  • Newell, P. T., T. Sotirelis, and S. Wing (2010), Seasonal variations in diffuse, monoenergetic, and broadband aurora, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A03216, doi:10.1029/2009JA014805.
  • Sotirelis, T. and P. T. Newell (2000), "Boundary-oriented electron precipitation model," J. Geophys. Res., 105 (A8), 18,655-18,673.
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