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Grid Generation for Curvilinear Field-Line-Following Coordinates

Fortran code for generating curvilinear magnetic field-line-following coordinate systems for ionosphere-plasmasphere modeling.

Paper

This code accompanies the paper:

A general curvilinear magnetic field-line-following coordinate system for ionosphere-plasmasphere modeling
Houjun Wang
CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder

DOI

Contents

  • dipole/ - Fortran 90 modules for dipole coordinate generation
  • igrf/ - IGRF (International Geomagnetic Reference Field) coefficients
  • plot/ - Visualization scripts
  • scripts/ - Utility scripts

Building

cd dipole
make

Usage

See the dipole coordinate modules for generating field-aligned grids for ionosphere-plasmasphere simulations.