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The development of new solar indices for use in thermospheric density modeling

Tobiska, W. Kent; Bouwer, S. Dave; Bowman, Bruce R.

New solar indices have been developed to improve thermospheric density modeling for research and operational purposes. Out of 11 new and 4 legacy indices and proxies, we have selected 3 (F10.7, S10.7, and M10.7) for use in the new JB2006 empirical thermospheric density model. In this work, we report on the development of these solar irradiance ind…