Annales Geophysicae
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Articles | Volume 43, issue 1
Articles | Volume 43, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-175-2025
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Evaluating F10.7 and F30 radio fluxes as long-term solar proxies of energy deposition in the thermosphere

Liying Qian and Kalevi Mursula

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The paper explains why the solar activity index F30 is more suitable for ionospheric and thermospheric long-term trends.
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We study how well the F10.7 and F30 solar radio fluxes have represented solar energy input in the thermosphere in the last 60 years. We found that increased saturation of radio fluxes at recent solar minima leads to an overestimation of solar energy, which changes the relation between thermospheric parameters and F10.7, but this is not an issue for F30 because of a relative increase in F30 with respect to F10.7. This explains why F30 has been found to represent solar energy better than F10.7.
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