The effects of nitric oxide cooling and the photodissociation of molecular oxygen on the thermosphere/ionosphere system over the Argentine Islands

• Main Authors: Wells, G. D., Rodger, A. S., Moffett, R. J., Bailey, G. J., Fuller-Rowell, T. J.
• Other Authors: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Hicks Building, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder -National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1997
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Argentine; Argentine Islands
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00316211; https://hal.science/hal-00316211/document; https://hal.science/hal-00316211/file/angeo-15-355-1997.pdf

International audience In the past the global, fully coupled, time-dependent mathematical model of the Earth's thermosphere/ionosphere/plasmasphere (CTIP) has been unable to reproduce accurately observed values of the maximum plasma frequency, f oF2, at extreme geophysical locations such as the...