New empirical models of the ion temperature and ion composition

Vladimir Truhlik1, Dieter Bilitza2,3, Philip G Richards4, Dmytro V. Kotov5, Ludmila Triskova6 and Maryna O. Shulha5, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Department of Ionosphere and Aeronomy, Praha, Czech Republic, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Institute of Ionosphere, Kharkiv, Ukraine, (6)Institute Atmospheric Physics CAS, Department of Ionosphere and Aeronomy, Praha, Czech Republic