Annales Geophysicae
Annales Geophysicae
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Articles | Volume 34, issue 9
Articles | Volume 34, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-725-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-725-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 34, issue 9
Regular paper
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01 Sep 2016
Regular paper |  | 01 Sep 2016

Effect of the solar activity variation on the Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model (GITM)

Davide Masutti, Günther March, Aaron J. Ridley, and Jan Thoemel

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The Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model has been validated against flight data. The validation shows a linear dependency of the neutral density values with respect to the solar activity. In particular, the thermosphere model shows an over-predicting or under-predicting behaviour under high or low solar activity respectively. The reasons for such behaviour can be attributed to an erroneous implementation of the chemical processes or the gas transport properties in the model.
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