More stuff

Same beginning as ever - a clutch of Grodents, now iterating towards their final state.

Keter worryingly shaky, hope it doesn't go down soon, the first of the sensitivities are nearly ready to finish...

Question arrived from BAS, answer sent off.

Registration and abstract for the europlanet workshop (including people from BAS) now sent off.

A few more Uranus runs added for various reasons... to be revealed when and if they finish...

Text:
Modelling
-Tiros
--explanation of tiros - done and cited!
--Critique of Tiros
-RIDE ovation
--Introduction/RIDE validation
--Parameterisation validation and examples
Results
-CTIP runs with Tiros and with RIDE-O
Discussion
Conclusions

Tables:
5.1 - energy bands of TIROS - done!
5.2 - energy bands of DMSP
5.3 - RIDE Ovation energy bands
...and so on (probably including later results)

More plotting...

Something interesting to do - plot out the output of ionisation rates for RIDE and Tiros for Svalbard at the two solstices as well as electron spectra, at two am and two pm after week long runs for the various activity levels, as well as TEC for the two. Maybe add in somewhere like Milstone Hill too, just to show how the Tiros spectra break down.

A clutch of Grodents has been dealt with.

Text:
Introduction - done and cited!
Modelling
-Tiros
--explanation of tiros
--Critique of Tiros
-RIDE ovation
--Introduction/RIDE validation
--Parameterisation validation and examples
Results
-CTIP runs with Tiros and with RIDE-O
Discussion
Conclusions

Weekend runs

Few more runs dun over the weekend. Saturn50 completed as expected, with no problems, also as expected, so another good reason to suspect the runs will be successful. Now just need to put Saturn50 back on for a full run.

Dun. Along with a clutch of Grodents, some phenomalogical work on Uranus and a few other bits and pieces.

Ok, present suggested system for Chapter Five:

Text:
Introduction
Modelling
-Tiros
--explanation of tiros
--Critique of Tiros
-RIDE ovation
--Introduction/RIDE validation
--Parameterisation validation and examples
Results
-CTIP runs with Tiros and with RIDE-O
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
5.1 - TIROS original schematic
5.2 - TIROS with Hi_tir and Hi_tir_max as well as DMSP included
5.3 - example standard ionisation output (per unit mass etc)
5.4 - example adjusted standard profile (ionisation rates)
5.5 - cross-sections over the energy range
5.6 - Validation of terrestrial RIDE
5.7 - Schematic of RIDE Ovation
5.8 - validation of parameterisartion
5.9 - example standard plot
5.10 - examples of output plots
...and so on

Tables:
5.1 - energy bands of TIROS
5.2 - energy bands of DMSP
...and so on (probably including later results)

Should put a bit about Richard Horne's stuff in there too, as it suggests further uses for the technique - must also qualify the use of this; normally CTIP is run during storm conditions (hence TIROS producing full oval coverage), but is limited by its pressure levels as to how high activity to go. For projects such as Alex's where lots of data is compared to CTIP, as the data is real data over a real timescale, it is mostly in the quiet time, so needs a quiet-time oval for a proper comparison.

Also done phenomalogical stuff for the final results chapter - after wondering how to fit the proton comparison to data in with the general theme of statistical patterns of electrons into a GCM, simple answer - high precision measuring of the characteristics of particle beams for later, better statistics and resultant models.

It makes sense to me...

Same things as ever. Alphas, Grodents, Chemistry and Sensitivities.

Minor problem identified in chemistry module. Now corrected and being tested.

Hmmm. Little, if any, effect... ok, on closer inspection, quite some effect, but not enough - need an ever longer run, which has now been set off on the c3. Lets see if that ever ends...

Also done some work on Chapter five, having tied the introduction into Chapter four and included the thread that will be the actual thesis of the thesis... I forgot how much was already in five! I'll be modelling again soon and producing pictures once I've dealt with a load of citations...

Bits and bobs

The validation test run gave the expected result - the code is fine, it really was just coincidence that all seven runs happened to suffer catastrophic errors due to mistakes with maintainance of the Keter mainframe! Idiots!

If it happens again...

At least all can be set off again. Now the task is to keep running these things until they finally agree to output something sensible... like results... Then again, I've been doing this for a year now...

A second program has given up its secrets - the chemistry module's apparent inability to do anything between a quick rough and ready run and an overlong run is down to one step where the log of the H2 density is taken and raised to an integer power of ten. Unfortunately, the natural logarithm had been taken, which effectively doubles what the log should've been... now that is corrected, I can fine tune it a little better. I hope... Then I'll be out of the situation where a small number of low lying high density regions fail to run whilst everything else goes fine...

All alpha runs dead as predicted. They're next for the change...

Chemistry is better, but not yet as it should be. I get results up and down the range, but a few are still a little too coarse. They will be sorted once again...

Alphas have all been recoded and set off once more. Chapter three's final bit may even get done! Assuming they ever leave this queue...

ok, some are off...

Couple of checks on Chapter five done

Chemistry module finished. H2 problem still there. Most confusing... will sort out another day

More stuff

Text:
Results
-Ion production and direct heating - needs results
-Chemistry (further)? - needs results
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)? - not required
-Photons - needs further results (photon chemistry)
-Sensitivities - needs results
Discussion - needs above results
Conclusions - needs above results

Figures:
4.6 - Validation monoruns - runs ongoing
4.13 - Uranus North ion production - ongoing
4.14 - Uranus South ion production - ongoing
4.16 - Uranus heating - ongoing
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus - needs runs
4.24 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn - needs runs
4.25 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus - needs runs
4.26-8 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs - runs ongoing

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus - runs ongoing
4.4 - Heating Uranus - runs ongoing
4.5 - H3+ Saturn - needs runs
4.6 - H3+ Uranus - needs runs

Modelling required:
Validation runs (three cases - highly intensive due to powerful aurora) - ongoing
Uranus runs (two cases - very low intensity aurora) - ongoing
Chemistry module - coding to update for certain Steve based things, then runs using model atmospheres and ion production
Sensitivities - you can't miss these runs, they've been going for a year now... - ongoing

The problem with vanishing hydrogen in the chemistry routine has itself vanished as the coding mistake was discovered. The problem with H3+ being depleted compared to Grodent is likely to be due to the philosophy of the code (me not including transport terms) than anything else as the rates are very consistent and believable. Of course, the possibility that not having the H+ or He+ production rates reduces the amount of H3+ due to the lesser production through eqn 9 (lesser as some H+ appears chemically, so equation 9 does produce a little H3+) or through production of H2+ through charge exchange with He+ (also a production route for H+, which then adds to 9). Then there's the problem of high density regions requiring tiny timesteps to stop the densities overpowering fortran, and low density regions requiring low timesteps so their changes don't become so tiny they vanish in a rounding error... This at least is being worked on and the chemistry routine is starting to look a little like it could work in the future... though the runtime will be massive, especially when Steve's stuff goes in...

Final proof of the above arrived. The H3+ densities conform almost entirely to the H2+ ion production rate, which agrees with Chris' assessment that all H2+ goes to H3+ (within a certain tolerance). So using eqn 9 and charge exchange will top up the H3+. Plus another source of ionisation has been divined... photoionisation, which I forgot... I have the rates, or will have in a sec, but haven't stuck them in. Tut.

OK, have been fitting in the extra bit - variable resolution to cope with the different densities, and the test worked really well. Have had to adjust it as H3+ was being ignored (it needs a few iterations to get going) but got it done in the end. The only real question is how many iterations to allow it to have... as usual a case of results versus time - though the initial results were so good that may not be of concern. We shall see...

Further heating now cancelled due to lack of spectral generators to act as coolant in any atmosphere (asides from the H3+ coolant code from JIM etc). Having said that, lessons from the chemical rates module have informed corrections to the thermal profile one.

Also answered questions for BAS

Chemistry

Text:
Results
-Ion production and direct heating - needs results
-Chemistry (further)? - needs coding
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)? - needs coding
-Photons - needs results
-Sensitivities - needs results
Discussion - needs results
Conclusions - needs results

Figures:
4.6 - Validation monoruns - runs ongoing
4.13 - Uranus North ion production - ongoing
4.14 - Uranus South ion production - ongoing
4.16 - Uranus heating - ongoing
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus - needs runs
4.24 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.25 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs
4.26-8 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs - runs ongoing

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus - runs ongoing
4.4 - Heating Uranus - runs ongoing
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs

Modelling required:
Validation runs (three cases - highly intensive due to powerful aurora) - ongoing
Uranus runs (two cases - very low intensity aurora) - ongoing
Chemistry module - coding to update for certain Steve based things, then runs using model atmospheres and ion production
Sensitivities - you can't miss these runs, they've been going for a year now... - ongoing

Chemistry module:
rate constants created
convergance measure created
rate calculations added
heating rates added (initially as an outside thing, later on will include conduction et al to get a proper heat profile out of each of these - and by later on I mean soon...).

Module tested and will be iterated further later.

Next set of validation runs off and going.

Even four

Text:
Results
-Ion production and direct heating - needs results
-Chemistry (further)? - needs coding
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)? - needs coding
-Photons - needs results
-Sensitivities - needs results
Discussion - needs results
Conclusions - needs results

Figures:
4.6 - Validation monoruns - runs ongoing
4.13 - Uranus North ion production - ongoing
4.14 - Uranus South ion production - ongoing
4.16 - Uranus heating - ongoing
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus - needs runs
4.24 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.25 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs
4.26-8 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs - runs ongoing

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus - runs ongoing
4.4 - Heating Uranus - runs ongoing
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs

Modelling required:
Validation runs (three cases - highly intensive due to powerful aurora) - ongoing
Uranus runs (two cases - very low intensity aurora) - ongoing
Chemistry module - coding to update for certain Steve based things, then runs using model atmospheres and ion production
Sensitivities - you can't miss these runs, they've been going for a year now... - ongoing

Two bits of coding remain as well as loads of calculations etc. Once these two are done and set off, I can start reformatting graphs on the paper version. I have two to compress and one to create, which depends on one of the set of runs listed here...

More questions from BAS... sigh. If they'd only wait a couple of days, I'll be on Chapter five anyway...

Testrun numbers calculated for Grodent cases (ok, updated...). All cases running (all four that is, as one extra has crept in). This means keter now has Uranus, Validation and Sensitivities runs going. C3 has alpha runs, except one that rimmer has.

Soooo. Chemistry. Chemical rates are heirarchical, which means you must get the major species right before thinking about the minor species, else you'll be iterating massively forever. H2 is the most major species, followed by He and then H (neutrals). The largest charged species is e-, followed initially by H2+, later to become H3+, then He+ and H+. I could go further, inlude hydrocarbons, He++ etc, but for the initial check not necessary - though Steve wants rotational level chemistry, which means sticking in all 27 levels of H3+ seperately and letting them decay into appropriate populations...

I have devised simple balance equations, using the production, loss and initial density terms for each thing. Next will be to iterate over and again until this lot reach new densities. Highest danger will be to the photoionisation rates at the top, which will mean considerable ionisation of some low density species, low densities fluctuate, hence so will the photoionisation rates. Similar considerations are required for auroral ionisation later... The reason for using this order isn't just because the big things changing changes the little things so much, but also because the little things change the big things so little...

But first, bits and pieces of graphs. Ok, after battles with p!multi, extra y-axes, positioning things etc, I finally have two graphs in one eps with both pressure and altitude scales attached. The other graphs are less essential. Or perhaps I'm lazy, either way they won't get 'em. Have adjusted captions and official review response. There now really is only one thing to do - the validations, which are cooking on Keter as we speak.

BAS and four

Text:
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)?
-Photons
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
4.6 - Validation monoruns - needs runs
4.13 - Uranus North ion production - needs runs
4.14 - Uranus South ion production - needs runs
4.16 - Uranus heating - needs runs
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus - needs runs
4.20 - Photoionisation Saturn - done!
4.21 - Photon heating Saturn - done!
4.22 - Photoionisation Uranus - done!
4.23 - Photon heating Uranus - done!
4.24 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.25 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs
4.26-8 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs - needs runs

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus - needs runs
4.4 - Heating Uranus - needs runs
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs
4.7 - Solar ion production - done!
4.8 - Solar heating - done!

Modelling required:
Validation runs (three cases - highly intensive due to powerful aurora)
Uranus runs (two cases - very low intensity aurora) - ongoing
Chemistry module - coding to update for certain Steve based things, then runs using model atmospheres and ion production
Sensitivities - you can't miss these runs, they've been going for a year now... - ongoing

Data from photoionisation and heating now translated into appropriate graphs and tables. That bit of modelling is complete. I have also checked the photon model against some published calculations and it is fine.

Ok, so need numbers for Uranus as that is next. Numbers have been obtained. The model is prepped, keter is, well, keter. If successfull, these two will produce numbers for two tables and four graphs, as well as the seeds for the chemistry stuff, which will take care of two more graphs and the final two tables. Then there's just validations and sensitivities to do... Just. Other people don't really need keter do they?

Interupted by email from BAS, requiring some explanation of hi_tiros plus some hi_tiros_max datasets, all sent off.

Got the two Uranus models set up and running. Eventually... Of course, now I expect them to crash at the most inconvenient moment possible. All I have to do is wait to find out when that is...

More For Four

Text:
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)?
-Photons
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
4.6 - Validation monoruns - needs runs
4.11 - Saturn average ion production - done!
4.12 - Saturn Dawn flare ion production - done!
4.13 - Uranus North ion production - needs runs
4.14 - Uranus South ion production - needs runs
4.15 - Saturn heating - done!
4.16 - Uranus heating - needs runs
4.17 - Energy degradation (Saturn) - done!
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus - needs runs
4.20 - Photoionisation Saturn - ready to go
4.21 - Photon heating Saturn - ready to go
4.22 - Photoionisation Uranus - ready to go
4.23 - Photon heating Uranus - ready to go
4.24 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.25 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs
4.26-8 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs - needs runs

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus - needs runs
4.4 - Heating Uranus - needs runs
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?) - needs coding, runs
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?) - needs coding, runs
4.7 - Solar ion production - ready to go
4.8 - Solar heating - ready to go

Ah, forgot about that! The results need, erm, results. That'll give today something to do... Time to sort out all these graphs...

...and now I find pdflatex has a problem with eps files! All very well altering latex to allow noneps files to be used, but sacrificing eps files completely is a bit below the belt!

ok, sorted, figures converted to .pdf and inserted correctly. Sigh.

Modelling required:
Validation runs (three cases - highly intensive due to powerful aurora)
Uranus runs (two cases - very low intensity aurora)
Photons Saturn (well, calculation, won't go as far as to say "modelling") - done!
Photons Uranus (as above) - done!
Chemistry module - coding to update for certain Steve based things, then runs using model atmospheres and ion production
Sensitivities - you can't miss these runs, they've been going for a year now...

Which leaves four graphs to do with ease, two to do with relative ease, some fairly swift modelling for Uranus providing further graphs and tables, long runs for Jupiter and sensitivities, which need to be done and chemistry, which should be "fairly" easy, but we shall see...

There is something really wrong with spending ages getting idl just so, then pressing go and have everything churn together in a couple of seconds... I want error messages or fireworks to deflect from my precious data, which has taken months to produce, compile together, colour codes chosen etc etc etc.

Second one was even worse. I just copied and pasted the idl code...

All four easy graphs now done. Yes, I know, I'm a coward. The rest will be done when they're done...

Right, photon stuff. I will use the tried and tested method rather than my own one, which will be revealed in Chapter six, but first the tried and tested method. Must first explain it, so I'll expand a little in the modelling section...

...expanded. Now for calculations, assuming I can find the fluxes again... its been a while... got 'em

These calculations may be easy, but they are VERY numerous...

Solar heating eventually calculated for Subsolar Saturn.

Ion production has now followed for subsolar Saturn.

Same two have been calculated for Undersun Uranus. Ok, enough attempts at alliteration...

All numbers ready for graphs and tables. They will be done tomorrow.

More Four

Jobs for Four

Text:
Model - done!
-Inputs for Saturn - done!
--In Situ - done!
--UV Terrella - done!
--IR - done!
-Inputs for Uranus - done!
--In Situ - done!
--UV - done!
--IR - done!
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)?
-Photons?
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
4.6 - Validation monoruns
4.11 - Saturn average ion production
4.12 - Saturn Dawn flare ion production
4.13 - Uranus North ion production
4.14 - Uranus South ion production
4.15 - Saturn heating
4.16 - Uranus heating
4.17 - Energy degradation (Saturn)
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus
4.20 - Photons Saturn(?)
4.21 - Photons Uranus(?)
4.22 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?)
4.23 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?)
4.24-6 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus
4.4 - Heating Uranus
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?)
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?)

Lots of text done today.

Further four and a bit'a BAS

Jobs for Four

Text:
Model
-Cross-sections etc, general RIDE stuff - done!
-Model Atmospheres for Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus - done!
-Validation for Jupiter - done!
-Inputs for Saturn
--In Situ
--UV Terrella
--IR
-Inputs for Uranus
--In Situ
--UV
--IR
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)?
-Photons?
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
4.2 - Ion production by photons cross-sections - done!
4.3 - Jovian model atmosphere - done!
4.4 - Saturnian model atmosphere - done!
4.5 - Uranian model atmosphere - done!
4.6 - Validation monoruns
4.11 - Saturn average ion production
4.12 - Saturn Dawn flare ion production
4.13 - Uranus North ion production
4.14 - Uranus South ion production
4.15 - Saturn heating
4.16 - Uranus heating
4.17 - Energy degradation (Saturn)
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus
4.20 - Photons Saturn(?)
4.21 - Photons Uranus(?)
4.22 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?)
4.23 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?)
4.24-6 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs

Tables:
4.2 - Ion production Uranus
4.4 - Heating Uranus
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?)
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?)

Have managed discussions with both Chris Lee and his boss Horne, in a roundabout way. Sent off hi_tir stuff to Alan for sending on and opened up tucan to find out definitively what the co-ord system is. Done, answer sent off.

Have coloured in Figure 1. Very nice.

Done all atmospheres (in terms of their display) too. Completed background model bit, asides from that validation plot, which is ever more urgent.

Correcting introduction

The full introduction is back peppered with minor corrections, so they must be done, or argued with as some of them are just Alan unaware of when I'm trying to define something, for example - the ionic atmosphere is known as the ionosphere, he disputes this as the ionic atmosphere is known as the ionosphere and therefore I'm repeating a term.

...

Anyway. Most of them are valid additions.

Done, with only four pages of intelligible scribbles to get translated from Alan

Also been chased around by Steve, who is sitting at home ringing Alan asking for figures describing the average characteristics of Earth's aurora. Didn't occur to him to check his email apparently... Why did he assume I knew his home number?

Anyway, back to Jobs Remaining for Four

Text:
Model
-Cross-sections etc, general RIDE stuff
-Model Atmospheres for Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus
-Validation for Jupiter
-Inputs for Saturn
--In Situ
--UV Terrella
--IR
-Inputs for Uranus
--In Situ
--UV
--IR
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)?
-Photons?
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
4.1 - Ion production by electrons cross-sections - done!
4.2 - Ion production by photons cross-sections
4.3 - Jovian model atmosphere
4.4 - Saturnian model atmosphere
4.5 - Uranian model atmosphere
4.6 - Validation monoruns
4.7 - Dusty Saturn picture - done!
4.8 - Saturn auroral ovals - done!
4.9 - Terrella - done!
4.10 - Uranus auroral map - done!
4.11 - Saturn average ion production
4.12 - Saturn Dawn flare ion production
4.13 - Uranus North ion production
4.14 - Uranus South ion production
4.15 - Saturn heating
4.16 - Uranus heating
4.17 - Energy degradation (Saturn)
4.18 - Peak rate altitudes, Saturn - done!
4.19 - Peak rate altitudes, Uranus
4.20 - Photons Saturn(?)
4.21 - Photons Uranus(?)
4.22 - H3+ densities for three cases Saturn(?)
4.23 - H3+ densities for three cases Uranus(?)
4.24-6 - Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs

Tables:
4.1 - Ion production Saturn - done!
4.2 - Ion production Uranus
4.3 - Heating Saturn - done!
4.4 - Heating Uranus
4.5 - H3+ Saturn(?)
4.6 - H3+ Uranus(?)

and that is that for today...

...and once more

Remaining figure to deal with:
3.2 - change in alpha in the small increments code - runs going on the c3

Tables:
3.2 - integrated dispersion at 10keV for different pitch angles etc (Earth); mine plus lorentzens - done!
3.3 - start, range and end points of dispersion region for different pitch angles - done!
3.4 - integrated dispersion at 10keV for different pitch angles etc (Jupiter): mine plus Earth ones - done!
3.5 - start, range and end points of dispersion region for different end points - done!

Finally, all tables are done, along with all possible graphs, with the exception of the one still going. When that one finishes, it and its conclusions will go in along with the typesetting of the rest and changing figure X's to actual numbered figures. Then Chapter three can join one and two in the Aylward pit.

Speaking of which, four pages have returned from their so far (one of which had no problems whatsoever, two had minor errors, one was a couple of graphs, which just confused him...).

So, will start corrections.

Done.

Onto chapter four.

The Chapter of Runs

Here is the new structure, worked out a while ago (you haven't forgotten already?):
New Chapter Four (current):
Introduction - done!
Model
-Cross-sections etc, general RIDE stuff
-Model Atmospheres for Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus
-Validation for Jupiter
-Inputs for Saturn
--In Situ
--UV Terrella
--IR
-Inputs for Uranus
--In Situ
--UV
--IR
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further - Joule heating etc)?
-Photons?
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

Of course, there are currently two versions of this, the converted version of the original paper and the uncoverted corrected paper. These will be slowly melded with the new structure and out will drop the final chapter as well as the paper itself.

Current figure list (suggested inclusions):
Cross-sections (they are the same for J, S and U), plus maybe photoionisation cross-sections and numbers, giving an idea of the scaling, a pair of figures.
Model atmospheres for J, S and U
Validations - Jovian monoruns as well as the Jovian full run
UV Terrella (Saturn oval plus terrella), another pair of figures
Uranus auroral map again, plus IR Uranus?
Ion production - two Saturnian cases, two Uranian cases (from Kim)
Heating, Saturn, Uranus
Energy degradation, Saturn, Uranus
Peak rate altitudes, Saturn and Uranus
Photons Saturn, Uranus?
Sensitivity graphs for Saturn, three whole 3D graphs
=26 figures (for those who can't count - me...)

Loadsa tables too, with heating and ion production for both planets, plus ratios of expected H3+ column densities from photo- and auroral ionisation. Could be fun...

That'll inflate the chapter. Frightening. But necessary.

More on four

Language stuff really (there was a party yesterday, which is why I've copied the paper into the chapter four space rather than doing anything useful over the past two days).

What I will be creating in chapter four is a hybrid of the old chapter four, based purely on Saturn with conjecture on the sensitivities results, and a version for Uranus including the Jovian validation. So, there has to be a change in the structure:

Paper:
Abstract
Introduction
Model
Results
Discussion
Conclusions

Old Chapter Four:
Introduction
Inputs
-In Situ
-UV Terrella
-IR
-Model Atmosphere
Results
Discussion
Conclusions

New Chapter Four (current):
Introduction
Model
-Validation for Jupiter
-Model Atmospheres for Saturn and Uranus
-Inputs for Saturn (see above)
-Input for Uranus
Results
-Ion production and direct heating
-Chemistry (further)?
-Heating (further)?
-Sensitivities
Discussion
Conclusions

-and that's a far bigger chapter than the original one! Even without the bits with question marks beside them

So need to make the spellings english, rearrange bits a la the original chapter four, then rearrange for the new one, but best to do all that when I've dealt with the backlog of other things. Last for today is just to stick in a couple of tables.

Done

More of the same

Chapter four:
1,193 -> 2,950

A quick one, but nevertheless full. I have extended the paper to include all the bits cut out to fit the thing in the GRL format. Although this is the shortest chapter, it is probably the most complete as I doubt Alan will cut it up as much as the rest. I will be including a few extra graphs and tables, which means the captions and bodies will increase the word count. Not too much, but enough.

One graph, of course, remains undone - the Grodent one. As the Thesis is almost up to speed, this can be started... and when I say almost, I think I could do a paragraph on Jupiter... may as well.

Chapter six:
0 -> 888

Total:
25,432 -> 28,077
46.795%

I guess that's about it for the writing at the moment. Though I can put extra bits in, they would be slow and really dependant on the results that go in there - which is the thing to work on next.

First, a restatement of how things stand:

Introduction:
5,549
Chapter 2:
7,512
Chapter 3:
7,173
Chapter 4:
2,950
Chapter 5:
3,995
Chapter 6:
888

I will need to move sensitivities from Chapter three back to chapter 4 to balance them. May also shift the Jovian validation too... Maybe even the terrestrial one... just leave protons and photons in three. Photons (investigation into the effect of scattering, plus Chapman function and validation) could go into Chapter six too. At least I'll cool the ardour of Chapter three (plus make it easier to complete).

ok, have started on further interpolation of the Grodent atmosphere...