Realistic magnetospheric density model for 29 August 2000 

R.E. Denton, J. Goldstein, D.-H. Lee, R.A. King, Z.C. Dent, D.L. Gallagher, 
D. Berube, K. Takahashi, M. Nose, D. Milling, F. Honary 


Using a two dimensional image of the Earth's plasmasphere taken by the Extreme
Ultraviolet Imager (EUV) on the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global
Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft, in-situ electron density measurements from the
IMAGE Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) instrument, measurements of magnetospheric mass
density inferred from field line resonant frequencies measured by magnetometers
on the EarthÕs surface, and a model for the density field aligned variation, we
construct a computer model for the magnetospheric density on 29 August 2000 at
1519 UT. The purposes of this study are to demonstrate how a density model can
be constructed using multiple data sources, to document this particular model,
which is being used in studies of ultra low frequency Pi-2 oscillations and
plasmaspheric cavity modes, to describe some of the problems involved with EUV
density inversion, and to demonstrate some features of the plasmaspheric
density, particularly in the region of the dusk plasmatrough and plume.

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Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 68, 615Š628, 2006