Simulating the Dynamics of Auroral Phenomena

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Baranoski,G.V.G.; Wan, J.; Rokne,J.; Bell,I.
Simulating the Dynamics of Auroral Phenomena
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 37-59, January 2005.
Baranoski,G.V.G.; Wan, J.; Rokne,J.; Bell,I. Simulating the Dynamics of the Dancing Lights.
Technical Report CS-2002-16 . School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. Canada, April, 2002.
Baranoski,G.V.G.; Rokne,J.G.; Shirley,P.; Trondsen,T.; Bastos,R. Simulating the Aurora.
The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation , Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 43-59, 2003.

Baranoski,G.V.G.; Rokne,J.G. Using a HPC System for the Simulation of the Trajectories of Solar Wind Particles in the Ionosphere. In: High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, as chapter 22, pp. 317-329, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
(Also presented in the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications ,
Victoria, BC, Canada, June, 2000.)

Baranoski,G.V.G.; Rokne,J.G.; Shirley,P.; Trondsen,T.; Bastos,R. Simulating the Aurora Borealis.
Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications - Pacific Graphics'2000 ,
Hong Kong, October, 2000, pp. 2-14.

Thanks are due to Dr. Trond Trondsen (Institute for Space Research, The University of Calgary, Canada) and Dr. Thomas Hallinan (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, USA) for their valuable feedback and encouragement on the simulation of auroral phenomena. Funding is gratefully acknowledged from both the National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC Grants 213281, 239162 and 691266) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI Project 6218).

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