[OpenMadrigal-users] What's New in Millstone Empirical Models

[Shunrong Zhang]

Hello,

Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar models have been online.  
(http://www.haystack.mit.edu/madrigal/Models/) These includes (1) our
empirical electric field models developed by John Holt and John Foster,
(2) our ionospheric electron density and temperature models (basically for
the F2 layer) that John Holt and I are working on, (3) Larisa's lower
thermospheric temperature model and (4) my simplified first-principles
model.

These latter three were put on web in winter 2001. Now the electron
density and temperature models, have been updated, as a result of adding
some new data and removing suspect data, and in particular, we are now
using fully analytical local and regional models. I have also included
some JPEG movies files.

In addtion to Millstone's major mission of producing good data of the
ionosphere, we hope these models to give reasonable averaging over the
data and represent a good climatology description of the ionosphere over
Millstone.

I welcome suggestions and comments!

Shunrong