@article{9e89eb38eb6647e6aa22fdc0a09217c6,
title = "International Reference Ionosphere 2016: From ionospheric climate to real-time weather predictions",
abstract = "The paper presents the latest version of the International Reference Ionosphere model (IRI-2016) describing the most important changes and improvements that were included with this version and discussing their impact on the IRI predictions of ionospheric parameters. IRI-2016 includes two new model options for the F2 peak height hmF2 and a better representation of topside ion densities at very low and high solar activities. In addition, a number of smaller changes were made concerning the use of solar indices and the speedup of the computer program. We also review the latest developments toward a Real-Time IRI. The goal is to progress from predicting climatology to describing the real-time weather conditions in the ionosphere.",
keywords = "IRI-2016, IRTAM, Real-Time IRI, hF, indices, ion composition",
author = "D. Bilitza and D. Altadill and V. Truhlik and V. Shubin and I. Galkin and B. Reinisch and X. Huang",
note = "Funding Information: We like to acknowledge the IRI Working Group with all its members for their support of the IRI activities. We like to dedicate this paper to our coauthor Xueqin Huang who passed away on 15 October 2016. Xueqin was a member of the IRI Working Group and contributed key IRI improvements. We thank NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) and Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) for the IRIweb online computation service. B.R., X.H., I.G., and D.B. were in part supported by USAF contracts FA9453-14-C-0305 and FA865016C9104. D.A. is in part supported by Universitat Ramon Llull project 2016-URL-Trac-001 funded by “Obra Social la Caixa” and by Spanish Ministry MINECO through project CTM2014-52182-C3-1-P. V.T. was supported, in part, by grant 15-07281J of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. V.S. was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research through project 17-05-00427. The IRI model code in Fortran is available from the IRI homepage at irimodel.org. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright}2017. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.",
year = "2017",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1002/2016SW001593",
language = "English",
volume = "15",
pages = "418--429",
journal = "Space Weather",
issn = "1542-7390",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "2",
}