Space Weather Modeling

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: SPACE 370. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. (4 credits) An introduction to a variety of models of the space environment, including models of the sun, magnetosphere, ring current, ionosphere, thermosphere and ionospheric electrodynamics. Students will learn the origins of different models, what each represents, to run the models and become familiar with the output.