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Neutral density in the thermosphere is one of the most important variables to model for applications in solar-terrestrial physics and drag computations for satellite orbit determination. Thermospheric density varies over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales under the influence of the complex interactions between the Earth system and solar processes. Unfortunately, observation data on the thermosphere have always been quite sparse and measurement modelling uncertainties have often introduced a relatively high level of ambiguity. These characteristics have made the improvement of thermosphere density models quite a challenge in the past.

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Doornbos, E. (2012). Introduction. In: Thermospheric Density and Wind Determination from Satellite Dynamics. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25129-0_1

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