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Modeling of the lower ionosphere climate

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A coupled model of the troposphere-stratosphere-mesosphere and the ionospheric D region (for 0–90 km altitudes) is presented. The model is based on a three-dimensional general atmospheric circulation model in a hybrid coordinate system. A five-component model has been taken as a photochemical model for the lower ionosphere. The role of the neutral atmosphere thermodynamic characteristics in the formation of the D layer mean state has been investigated by the model results. Based on a preliminary model identification using direct measurements, and radiowave absorption and propagation, it has been indicated that the model satisfactorily reproduces climatic characteristics of the ionospheric D layer.

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  1. Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Gubkina 8, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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  3. Federov Institute of Applied Geophysics, ul. Rossoshanskaya 9, Moscow, 129128, Russia

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Kulyamin, V.P. Dymnikov, 2015, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2015, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 317–337.

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Kulyamin, D.V., Dymnikov, V.P. Modeling of the lower ionosphere climate. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 51, 272–291 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433815030068

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