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E3S Web of Conf.
Volume 458, 2023
International Scientific Conference Energy Management of Municipal Facilities and Environmental Technologies (EMMFT-2023)
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| Article Number | 01031 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Energy Management, Energy Conversion and Storage | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202345801031 | |
| Published online | 07 December 2023 | |
Empirical models of the Earth’s ionosphere field-aligned currents: a review
1 Near-Earth Environment Computer Modelling Laboratory, Murmansk Arctic University, Egorova St. 15, 183038 Murmansk, Russia
2 Department of Information Technologies, Murmansk Arctic University, Egorova St. 15, 183038 Murmansk, Russia
* Corresponding author: ZolotovO@gmail.com
In this paper, we present a review of empirical models of the Earth’s ionosphere field-aligned currents (FAC). In total, seven FAC models were considered. Iijima and Potemra’s model was one of the earliest ones. It described a general structure of FAC distribution and could be used as a FAC common pattern. Papitashvili & co-auth., Lukianova & co-auth., and Weimer improved descriptions of FAC distributions using the larger amount of data from various satellite missions. Their models were published as a set of printed maps of the FAC distributions for various geophysical situations. Recent models (MFACE, AMPS, and EW-FAC) are provided as MATLAB, Python, and IDL software, respectively. These models are the high-resolution (finer spatial grid) description of FAC distributions with improved dependence on the Interplanetary Magnetic Field and Solar wind impacts.
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