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: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2016
• Subjects: Sodankylä
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513647/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513647/1/Kovacs.pdf; http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/9/3123/2016/gmd-9-3123-2016-metrics.html

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 and Neutral Chemistry (SIC) model, a 1-dimensional model containing 306 ion-neutral and ionr...