Plasmapause location model(s)
CA1992 – Carpenter, D. L., and R. R. Anderson, An ISEE/whistler model of equatorial electron density in the magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 1097, 1992. M2002 – Moldwin, M. B., L. Downward, H. K. Rassoul, R. Amin, and R. R. Anderson, A new model of the location of the plasmapause: CRRES results, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A11), 1339, doi:10.1029/2001JA009211, 2002.
Parameters: | ticks : spacepy.time.Ticktock
Lpp_model : string, optional
LT : int, float
omnivals : spacepy.datamodel.SpaceData, dict
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Returns: | out : float
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Examples
>>> import spacepy.time as spt
>>> import spacepy.empiricals as emp
>>> ticks = spt.tickrange('2002-01-01T12:00:00','2002-01-04T00:00:00',.25)
>>> emp.getPlasmaPause(ticks)
array([ 6.42140002, 6.42140002, 6.42140002, 6.42140002, 6.42140002,
6.42140002, 6.42140002, 6.26859998, 5.772 , 5.6574 ,
5.6574 ])