Six Magnetic Field Models Compared:
Mapping Geosynchronous Orbit
to the Auroral Zone

Geoffrey D. Reeves
Loretta A. Weiss, Michelle F. Thomsen and David J. McComas
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM

Olsen-Pfitzer Model

Conclusions

The Olsen Pfitzer static magnetic field model does not have an adjustable parameter for magnetospheric conditions.
As the lower plot shows the foot points of geosynchronous orbit are almost identical to the foot points in the Tsyganenko 1989 model with Kp=1.

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