CEDAR email: Swarm Ionospheric Polar Electrodynamics (Swipe): a new, open-source empirical model

[Spencer Mark Hatch]

We have recently released a python frontend, pySwipe, for the Swarm Ionospheric Polar Electrodynamics (Swipe) model:
PyPI - https://pypi.org/project/pyswipe/
GitHub - https://github.com/Dartspacephysiker/pyswipe
Swarm VirES - https://notebooks.vires.services/notebooks/07c1_sw-pyswipe
Model description - https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023/egusphere-2023-2920/

Swipe is a new, easy-to-use, open-source empirical model of several basic quantities related to high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics, including
*Electromagnetic work J⋅E (not the same as Joule heating)
*Poynting flux
*Hall and Pedersen conductances
*Ionospheric potential/electric field/convection

The Swipe model
*Is based exclusively on Swarm ion drift and Swarm and CHAMP magnetometer measurements;
*Does not assume any form of symmetry between the two hemispheres;
*Takes stock of distortions of Earth's geomagnetic field via Apex coordinates.

The Swipe project is a joint effort of researchers at the University of Bergen (Norway), the University of Oulu (Finland), and the University of Calgary. It is a part of Swarm Data, Innovation, and Science Cluster (DISC) activities, and is funded by ESA contract no. 4000109587/13/I-NB as well as the Trond Mohn Foundation, Research Council of Norway Contracts 300844 and 223252/F50.


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