Quick note

On this bank holiday weekend.

The model has been running slowly (due to additional CMATs on the system) during the course of the weekend, but should hopefully finish. At some point. Eventually.

And have been latexing chapter 2, bits of. This will need quite a few citations, couple more facts and a smattering of figures to go into it. Should be interesting... At the moment, I've just been shifting huge blocks of text. There's a couple opf equations and one derivation.

iTunes died in the middle of a song I was getting into. Why does it do that?

Figures to include in Chapter 2 (not yet numbered due to early figures not yet being figured out, but in order):
Earth auroral ovals (Image satellite)
Volcanic Io (New Horizons)
Jovian auroral oval in UV (maybe H3+ too? - have both images... may be overkill, maybe not)
Jovian current system
Saturn's UV aurora (Badman paper)
Saturnian current system
Uranian aurorae
Io aurora
Current systems in the thermosphere
Magnetic reconnection
Vasilly...Vasalyne...the other cycle
...more to come!

Back to J

Correcting the small increments thing in the Jupiter model. It is in there, but not recorded, bizzarely enough.

Subroutines to alter:
electron - checked, declared, changed - done!
strike - checked, declared, changed - done!
proton - declarations - done!
proton1 - declarations - done!
hit - checked against Earth model, changed declarations, changed recording - done!
back - checked, declared, changed - done!
selectron - checked, declared, changed - done!
recoil - checked, declared, changed - done!

All done.

Compiled.

Running.

Why did I do that? All the hard work had been done, just hadn't redeclared the results arrays as real variables, instead leaving them as integers. Makes it easier to analyse, I suppose, but artificially inflates results in denser or energy degraded areas. I know this has little effect in Gas Giant atmospheres and I may have removed it to reduce computational time and keep things looking pretty, but the calculations were left in, so no time was reduced and things won't look pretty if they're recording incorrectly...

Ok, results are in. That's better. Enough of this madness, at last. Shape is looking good, peak position great, magnitude very good.

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...

...and more

Bit more extrapolation of various atmospheres. Ok, interpolation, extrapolation comes later...