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PyIRTAM: A New Module of PyIRI for IRTAM Coefficients
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  • Victoriya Forsythe,
  • Ivan A Galkin,
  • Sarah E McDonald,
  • Kenneth F. Dymond,
  • Bruce Aaron Fritz,
  • Angeline Gail Burrell,
  • Katherine Anne Zawdie,
  • Douglas Drob,
  • Peter F. Caffrey,
  • Dustin A Hickey
Victoriya Forsythe
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

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Ivan A Galkin
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Sarah E McDonald
Naval Research Laboratory
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Kenneth F. Dymond
Naval Research Laboratory
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Bruce Aaron Fritz
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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Angeline Gail Burrell
US Naval Research Laboratory
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Katherine Anne Zawdie
Naval Research Laboratory
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Douglas Drob
Naval Research Lab
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Peter F. Caffrey
Naval Research Laboratory
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Dustin A Hickey
United States Naval Research Laboratory
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Abstract

A novel model called PyIRI was recently developed. It offers a fully Python alternative to the widely used FORTRAN International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model to construct the ionospheric electron density for the entire day and on the entire global grid in one computation, which has a significantly lower computational overhead. PyIRI introduced a novel approach to the computation of the global and diurnal functions and their matrix multiplication with Consultative Committee on International Radio (CCIR) coefficients, that enabled this global approach for the density specification. Since the IRI-based Real-Time Assimilative Model (IRTAM) produces coefficients in a similar format as CCIR coefficients, the PyIRI software was extended to be able to work with IRTAM coefficients using the same computationally efficient approach. This technical note describes the PyIRTAM software and shows examples of how to use it. PyIRTAM is 21 times more efficient than the classical IRTAM. PyIRTAM tool is made publicly available.
22 Mar 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
25 Mar 2024Published in ESS Open Archive