Nrlmsise-00 Empirical Model of the Atmosphere: Statistical Comparisons and Scientific Issues

By Joseph Picone, A. Hedin, D. Drob, A. Aikin. 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Rotating solar coronal holes and periodic modulation of the upper atmosphere (2008, methodology): “The measured densities are normalized to a constant altitude of 400 km using NRLMSISE00 [Picone et al., 2002].”
• Thermosphere density response to the 20-21 November 2003 solar and geomagnetic storm from CHAMP and GRACE accelerometer data (2006, methodology): “response at four local times and in two altitude regimes; (2) evaluation of the NRLMSISE-00 [Picone et al., 2002] empirical model’s capability to replicate the density re-”
• NRLMSIS 2.0: A Whole‐Atmosphere Empirical Model of Temperature and Neutral Species Densities (2020, methodology): “NRLMSIS 2.0 is a major upgrade to the previous version, NRLMSISE‐00 (Picone et al., 2002), with fundamental changes to the formulation and the assimilation of extensive new measurements in the middle and lower atmosphere.”
• Causes of low thermospheric density during the 2007–2009 solar minimum (2011, methodology): “each day of both years using the NRLMSISE‐00 empirical model [Picone et al., 2002].”
• Prospects for beyond the Standard Model physics searches at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (2020, background): “atmospheric model [135], that result from a production event at an altitude of 20 km.”
• Variability of thermosphere and ionosphere responses to solar flares (2011, methodology): “The measured densities are normalized to a constant altitude of 400 km using NRLMSISE00 [Picone et al., 2002].”
• A critical assessment of satellite drag and atmospheric density modeling (2008, neutral): “Some models (NRLMSISE-00 for instance) suggest that they were developed to use the step-function values of the 3-hourly geomagnetic indices (Picone et al. 2002), although they did use the daily a p during “quiet” periods ( a p < 10) and then switched to the 3-hourly a p during “active” periods ( a…”
• Global change in the thermosphere: Compelling evidence of a secular decrease in density (2004, methodology): “that the bias between NRLMSISE-00 and the various temperature datasets in the NRLMSISE database is generally less than 50 K [Picone et al., 2002].”