AUTHOR=Tsyganenko  Nikolai A. TITLE=A lifetime with models, or toils and thrills of number crunching JOURNAL=Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences VOLUME=9 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.934216 DOI=10.3389/fspas.2022.934216 ISSN=2296-987X ABSTRACT=

Modeling the magnetosphere from satellite data has some analogy to the construction of a person’s ‘identikit’ from patchy information, collected by different people at different times under different lighting/viewing conditions. This article is a brief overview of the author’s half-century-long efforts in building Earth’s magnetosphere models, with some feats, setbacks, and lessons learned.