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An Event Study To Provide Validation Of Ting And Cmit Geomagnetic Middle-Latitude Electron Densities At The F2 Peak, A. G. Burns, W. Wang, M. Wiltberger, S. C. Soloman, Harlan E. Spence, T. L. Killeen, R. E. Lopez, J. E. Landivar

Physics & Astronomy

[1] The coupled thermosphere-ionosphere magnetosphere (CMIT) model and the Thermosphere Ionosphere Nested Grid (TING) model have been run to simulate the 15 May 1997 interplanetary coronal mass ejection's (ICME) effects on the Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere. Comparisons were made between these model runs, the IRI-2007 model, and geomagnetic middle-latitude ionosonde data (NmF2) from the World Data Center to determine how well the models simulated the event and to understand the causes of model-data disagreement. The following conclusions were drawn from this study: (1) skill scores were more often negative than positive on average; (2) the best and the worst skill …