CalcDeltaB

Version: 2018

Postprocessing tool written in IDL to calculate Biot-Savart sums over magnetosphere, field-aligned currents and ionosphere height-integrated currents to determine magnetic perturbation at any location on the ground.

Caveats:

Magnetic perturbations do not include induction due to ground conductivities. The CalcDeltaB tool runs on output files sets for a single time step at a time and has no built-in time advance. Time variations are following the global magnetosphere simulation.

Inputs

Three-dimensional Magnetosphere model output files from OpenGGCM, SWMF, LFM or GUMICS, together with ionosphere electrodynamics outputs for matching times.

Outputs

ASCII files of magnetic perturbations (east, north, down component) at a grid of longitudes and latitudes.

Domains

Geospace

Space Weather Impacts

Geomagnetically induced currents - GICs (electric power systems)

Code

Code Languages: IDL

Contacts

Lutz Rastaetter, NASA GSFC CCMC (Model Developer)

Publication Policy

In addition to any model-specific policy, please refer to the General Publication Policy.