J. M. Picone

TL;DR: The new NRLMSISE-00 model and the associated NRLMSIS database now include the following data: (1) total mass density from satellite accelerometers and from orbit determination, including the Jacchia and Barlier data; (2) temperature from incoherent scatter radar, and; (3) molecular oxygen number density, [O2], from solar ultraviolet occultation aboard the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM).

TL;DR: The Horizontal Wind Model (HWM07) as mentioned in this paper provides a statistical representation of the horizontal wind fields of the Earth's atmosphere from the ground to the exosphere (0-500 km).

TL;DR: In this article, a unique atmospheric specification system (G2S) was developed to provide a detailed knowledge of the background atmospheric state variables, the global winds and temperature fields from the ground to ∼170 km, for infrasound propagation calculations, using acoustic ray tracing methods and detailed G2S atmospheric specifications.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used global-average thermospheric total mass density, derived from the drag effect on the orbits of many space objects, to study the behavior of the thermosphere during the prolonged minimum in solar activity between cycles 23 and 24.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived trends in upper thermospheric density from the historical orbital elements of 27 long-lived, near-Earth space objects and examined several possible sources of error in their results and concluded that none of them can individually account for the observed trends.