CGS selected for Phase II

We are so excited to share that CGS was selected by NASA for Phase II funding! Thanks to the incredible CGS team that worked tirelessly during the last two years to make it possible!

First-ever mesoscale-resolving fully coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere simulation is published by CGS researchers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Dr. Kevin Pham, a CGS team member from NCAR/HAO, has run the MAGE model fully coupling the magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere, at a resolution allowing it to resolve mesoscales in all relevant domains. This enabled the model to capture localized regions of energy input into atmosphere that caused traveling disturbances observed across the globe by low-altitude satellites. The model was able to capture neutral density perturbations that are responsible for satellite drag and can even cause operators to lose satellites.

Heliospheric version of GAMERA is used to simulate the solar wind at unprecedented resolution

Astrophysical Journal

APL postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Parisa Mostafavi, used the heliospheric version of the GAMERA code to run a solar wind simulation of a Carrington rotation during one of Parker Solar Probe's close encounters with the Sun. Using this very high resolution simulation, Dr. Mostafavi has demonstrated that off-radial velocity shears in the solar wind may potentially be unstable to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability providing a pathway for in situ generation of solar wind turbulence.