D-region ion–neutral coupled chemistry (Sodankylä Ion Chemistry, SIC) within the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM 4) – WACCM-SIC and WACCM-rSIC

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Kovács, Tamás, Plane, John M. C., Feng, Wuhu, Nagy, Tibor, Chipperfield, Martyn P., Verronen, Pekka T., Andersson, Monika E., Newnham, David A., Clilverd, Mark A., Marsh, Daniel R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3123-2016; https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/9/3123/2016/

This study presents a new ion–neutral chemical model coupled into the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). The ionospheric D -region (altitudes ∼ 50–90 km) chemistry is based on the Sodankylä Ion Chemistry (SIC) model, a one-dimensional model containing 307 ion–neutral and ion recombina...