sami2py

Python wrapper to run, read, and plot the SAMI2 ionospheric model.

Sami2py is a python module that runs the SAMI2 model, archives the output, and loads the resulting modeled values. SAMI2 is a model developed by the Naval Research Laboratory to simulate the motions of plasma in a 2D ionospheric environment along a dipole magnetic field. SAMI2 solves for the chemical and dynamical evolution of seven ion species in this environment (H+, He+, N+, O+, N2+, NO+, and O2+). The implementation used here includes several added options to the original release of SAMI2, including the ability to scale the neutral atmosphere in which the ions form through direct modification of the exospheric neutral temperature for extreme solar minimum conditions, and the ability to input custom ExB drifts as a Fourier series.