Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere (eBook)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the
Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 201.

Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System brings
together for the first time a detailed description of the physics
of the IT system in conjunction with numerical techniques to solve
the complex system of equations that describe the system, as well
as issues of current interest. Volume highlights include
discussions of:

* Physics of the ionosphere and thermosphere IT system, and the
numerical methods to solve the basic equations of the IT
system

* The physics and numerical methods to determine the global
electrodynamics of the IT system

* The response of the IT system to forcings from below (i.e., the
lower atmosphere) and from above (i.e., the magnetosphere)

* The physics and numerical methods to model ionospheric
irregularities

* Data assimilation techniques, comparison of model results to
data, climate variability studies, and applications to space
weather

Providing a clear description of the physics of this system in
several tutorial-like articles, Modeling the
Ionosphere-Thermosphere System is of value to the upper
atmosphere science community in general. Chapters describing
details of the numerical methods used to solve the equations that
describe the IT system make the volume useful to both active
researchers in the field and students.