Identification

Title

The Thermospheric General Circulation Models (TGCM's)

Alternative title(s)

TIEGCM

Abstract

The High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research has developed a series of numeric simulation models of the Earth's upper atmosphere, including the upper Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere. The Thermospheric General Circulation Models (TGCM's) are three-dimensional, time-dependent models of the EARTH's neutral upper atmosphere. The models use a finite differencing technique to obtain a self-consistent solution for the coupled, nonlinear equations of hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, continuity of the neutral gas and for the coupling between the dynamics and the composition. For full informaiton about the dataset and the associated project, please visit: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/modeling/tgcm/index.php

Resource type

model

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

From the TGCM's home page, additional information can be found regarding announcements, simulations, research highlights, references, bibliography of papers using NCAR Thermosphere-Ionosphere Modelsand, and other related models (e.g. the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Electrodynamic General Circulation Model or TIME-GCM, Globel Mean, and the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere and ionosphere extension or WACCM-X).

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS > MOLECULAR HYDROGEN

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN COMPOUNDS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN COMPOUNDS > MOLECULAR NITROGEN

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN COMPOUNDS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN COMPOUNDS > MOLECULAR OXYGEN

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY > ATMOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY > ELECTRIC FIELD

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES

EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS > AURORAE

EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS > ELECTRIC FIELDS/ELECTRIC CURRENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS > IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS > ION CHEMISTRY/IONIZATION

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GCMD

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-03-27

Keyword set

keyword value

Model

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-05-16

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2006-01-10

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

NETCDF

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/modeling/tgcm/download/files/tiegcmlicense.txt

Limitations on public access

Registration on the HAO web site is a requirement for access to the data.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Registration on the HAO web site is a requirement for access to the data.

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - High Altitude Observatory

email address

stans@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-28T11:36:07

Metadata language

eng