Limitations of global MHD models of the Earth’s magnetosphere

Lutz Rastaetter1, Therese Moretto2, Michael Hesse2, Maria M Kuznetsova3, Gabor Toth4, Joachim Raeder5, John Lyon6 and Ilja J Honkonen7, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (7)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland