Assessing the Capabilities and Limitations of Physics-Based Models in Capturing the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Storm-Time Response

Mariangel Fedrizzi1, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell2, Naomi Maruyama3, Tzu-Wei Fang1 and Mihail Codrescu4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States