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Dataset

 

March 2015 Geomagnetic storm with SD-WACCM-X with AMIE electric potential

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Latest Data Update: 2025-04-29
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Abstract

It is expected that very extreme space weather events such as geomagnetic storms will affect thermosphere. However, there are still open questions to address:
• How does the thermosphere respond on a global scale to extreme solar wind forcing during geomagnetic storms?
• To what extent does the global expansion of the high-latitude electric field to lower-latitudes affect the thermosphere?
• Do the thermospheric parameters respond linearly to the associated increase in electric field?
Here we use a specified-dynamics version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere and ionosphere Extension (WACCM-X) nudged with NASA's ModernEra Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA2) to simulate a geomagnetic storm event that occurred in 17-18 March 2015. The model has horizontal resolution of 1.9° latitude × 2.5° longitude and 145 vertical model levels from surface up to 1.4e-10 hPa (∼500 to ∼700 km, depending on solar activity).

Citable as:  [ PROVISIONAL ] National Centre for Atmospheric Science; University of Leeds; University of Lancaster; FENG, W.; Marsh, D.; Grocott, A.; Walach, M. (9999): March 2015 Geomagnetic storm with SD-WACCM-X with AMIE electric potential. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f6b26e1ee17e43dfa296bd5225a27460

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: CESM2, WACCM-X, MERRA2, Geomagnetic storm, Space Weather, electric potential

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Data lineage:

WACCM-X (cesm2.2.0 version, https://escomp.github.io/CESM/versions/cesm2.2/html/downloading_cesm.html) has been successfully ported on Leeds High-performance Advance Research Computing ARC4 (arc.leeds.ac.uk). The model input files are available through svn-ccsm-inputdata.cgd.ucar.edu/trunk/inputdata, MERRA2 is obtained from
https://data.rda.ucar.edu/d313003/1.9x2.5/2015, AMIE electric potential for March 2015 is provided by Dr Gang Lu at NCAR.

Data Quality:
This is the original model output from the model simulation
File Format:
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Related Documents

 CESM2
 WACCM-X

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

cesm2.2.0 (WACCM-X)

Abstract

The model cesm2.2.0 (SD-WACCM-X) is used a hybrid simulation coming from a scientific released version CESM2_1_3 simulation (composet FXSD with resolution f19_f19_mg16) to produce the initialisation files on 5 March 2015. The model is nudged with MERRA2 reanalysis dataset. The simulation is from 0UTC 5 March 2015 to 0UTC 22 March 2015 from surface up to 500-700 km. Here we use CAM6 physics, MA chemistry-MAM4 aerosol scheme. It ran on ARC4 HPCx at University of Leeds. Model output is 1 hour.

Input Description

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Output Description

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Software Reference

None

No variables found.

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2015-03-17T00:00:00
End time:
2015-03-18T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°