IRENE-AE9/AP9/SPM: Validations, Model Comparisons, and Other Evaluations
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The validation and model comparison documents below are included in the model distribution package.
- AE9/AP9/SPM V1.50.001 Software Verification Testing
- AE9/AP9/SPM V1.50.001 comparisons to legacy models
- AE9/AP9/SPM V1.50.001 comparisons to legacy models, spatial
- AE9 V1.50.001 validation summary
- AP9 V1.50.001 validation summary
- Dose kernel validation testing for V1.55
Older validations/comparisons
- Validation of AE9/AP9 implementation of AE8/AP8 and of SHIELDOSE2
- Also available at DTIC: C. Roth, AE8/AP8 implementations in AE9/AP9, IRBEM, and SPENVIS, AFRL-RV-PS-TR-2014-0014, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM (2014). [1]
- Summary of AP9 V1.20 Monte Carlo issue and its fix in AP9 V1.30
Additional validations/comparisons
- S. G. Claudepierre, et al., “The Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer: A review of on-orbit performance, data, operations, and science,” Space Sci. Rev., 217:80, doi:10.1007/s11214-021-00855-2 (2021) [2]
- S. G. Claudepierre, et al., “A revised look at relativistic electrons in the Earth's inner radiation zone and slot region,” J. Geophys. Res., 124:934-951, doi:10.1029/2018JA026349 (2019) [3]
- S.L. Huston, LEO protons in AP9 (Space Radiation Modeling and Data Analysis Workshop, 6 Oct 2016)
- B. P. Kwan and T. P. O'Brien, “Using static percentiles of AE9/AP9 to approximate dynamic Monte Carlo runs for radiation analysis of spiral transfer orbits,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 62(3):1357-1361 (2015). [4]
- J. A. Fennelly, et al., South Atlantic Anomaly and CubeSat design considerations (SPIE, 9 Aug 2015)
- J. A. Fennelly, W. R. Johnston, D. M. Ober, G. R. Wilson, T. P. O'Brien, and S. L. Huston, “South Atlantic Anomaly and CubeSat design considerations,” Proc. SPIE 9604, Solar and Space Weather Instrumentation VI., 960406, doi:10.1117/12.2190595 (2015). [5]
- S. L. Young, W. R. Johnston, B. T. Kress, and J. P. McCollough, Initial analysis of an energetic proton model (SWW, 15 Apr 2015)
- S. L. Huston, S. L., Low-energy, LEO protons in AP9 (31 Jan 2015)
- J. F. Fennell, et al., “Van Allen Probes show that the inner radiation zone contains no MeV electrons: ECT/MagEIS data,” Geophys. Res. Lett., 42:1283-1289 (2015). [6]
- T. Mulligan Skov, J. F. Fennell, J. L. Roeder, J. B. Blake, and S. G. Claudepierre, Internal charging hazards in near-Earth space during solar cycle 24 maximum: Van Allen Probes measurements (SCTC, 23 Jun 2014)
- AE9/AP9 Model Comparisons (NSREC, 9 Jul 2013)
- Independent validations/evaluations