Assessment of ionospheric and thermospheric models during the geomagnetic storm times in low and moderate solar flux years

Jack Wang1,2, Min-Yang Chou1,2, Jia Yue1,2, Masha Kuznetsova1, Joseph Huba3, Tzu-Wei Fang4, Dominic J. Fuller-Rowell5, John Michael Retterer6, Sean Bruinsma7 and Hanli Liu8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (3)Syntek Technologies Inc, Fairfax, United States, (4)NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (7)CNES, Toulouse, France, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States