Title :
Images of Aurora Light Based on Macro–Micro-Interlocked Simulation
Author :
Ohno, Nobuaki ; Hasegawa, Hiroki ; Sato, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan
Abstract :
To understand the aurora arc formation, a simulation code using a macro-micro-interlocked algorithm has been developed and implemented on the original Earth Simulator. Based on the results, aurora light has been rendered taking the emission from oxygen atoms excited by precipitating energetic electrons into consideration using an original parallel-visualization software.
Keywords :
atmospheric electron precipitation; aurora; data visualisation; digital simulation; geophysics computing; ionospheric techniques; parallel processing; Earth Simulator; aurora arc formation; aurora light images; macro-micro-interlocked simulation; oxygen atom excitation; parallel-visualization software; precipitating energetic electrons; simulation code; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Earth; Image color analysis; Microscopy; Rendering (computer graphics); Software; Aurora; visualization;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2011.2159617
