calculate a simple empirical model for Lmax - last closed drift-shell
Uses the parametrized Lmax from: Koller and Morley (2010) ‘Magnetopause shadowing effects for radiation belt models during high-speed solar wind streams’ American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM13A-1787
Parameters: | ticks : spacepy.time.Ticktock
model : string, optional
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Returns: | out : np.ndarray
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See also
Examples
>>> from spacepy.empiricals import getLmax
>>> import spacepy.time as st
>>> import datetime
>>> ticks = st.tickrange(datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1), datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 3), deltadays=1)
array([ 7.4928412, 8.3585632, 8.6463423])