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Zhang and Paxton Auroral Model

This is a model described in the paper

Y. Zhang, L.J. Paxton, An empirical Kp-dependent global auroral model based on TIMED/GUVI FUV data, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 70, Issues 8–9, 2008, Pages 1231-1242, ISSN 1364-6826, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2008.03.008.

Please refer to Appendix A of the paper:

Here is an example plot for kp=3: the black and red-dashed curves are the poleward and equatorward boundaries at flux above 0.25 $erg/s/cm^{2}$, respectively.

Here is an example plot for Pedersen and Hall conductance using the paper

Robinson, R. M., Vondrak, R. R., Miller, K., Dabbs, T., & Hardy, D. (1987). On calculating ionospheric conductances from the flux and energy of precipitating electrons. Journal of Geophysical Research, 92, 2565–2569. https://doi.org/10.1029/JA092iA03p02565