HR: 0800h
AN: SM41A-0323    [Abstracts]
TI: Skill Scores for Ionospheric Modeling
AU: * Landivar, J E
EM: landivar@uta.edu
AF: Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, United States
AU: Burns, A
EM: aburns@ucar.edu
AF: HAO, NCAR, Boulder, CO 80301, United States
AU: Lopez, R
EM: relopez@uta.edu
AF: Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, United States
AB: This paper examines two ionospheric models, Themosphere Ionosphere Nested Grid (TING) and International Reference Ionosphere (IRI), and compares them to each other and to ionosonde data from the SPIDR data base for the time period of July 1995 from the 4th through the 17th. We make this comparison by calculating standard skills scores. TING had a much larger dynamic range than IRI and overall both were bad fits to the data being at times as far off as 20% or more.
DE: 7924 Forecasting (2722)
DE: 7959 Models
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting