sypherwing / Aether

This is the home of the Aether model of the thermosphere and ionosphere

Aethers

This is the home of the Aether model of the thermosphere and ionosphere

The Aether model has been developed using gnu c++ (version 9.3.0). If you are using this, hopefully it will just work out of the box.

Dependencies:

1. Aether uses the netcdf library (netcdf-cxx4). We will eventually make a configuration file that will check to see if you have this installed, but right now it is hardcoded to be in /opt/local/lib. Sorry. Also, the python code provided for visualization uses the netcdf library (netCDF4).

Quick Start:

These are unix commands, assuming that you have access to a unix/linux terminal. This has been tested on a MacBook Pro.

1. git clone https://github.com/AetherModel/Aether

2. cd Aether

3. Modify src/Makefile to point to the correct netcdf library (in LINK command near the bottom - may need to change the location and the name of the library, as well as the FLAGS variable at the top). Also, if you are using a different c++ compiler, you will need to change that at this time (top two variables). We will fix this so that there is a configuration script at some point.

4. make (may throw warning about ../lib directory not found.)

5. make rundir

6. cd run

7. ./aether.exe (should run 10 minutes with no issues).

8. python ../python/read_python.py

9. compare test.png to ../inputs/test.png to see if they are similar.