A newer version, IRI-2007, is available at http://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/vitmo/iri_vitmo.html


International Reference Ionosphere - IRI-2001 at SPDF

This page enables the computation and plotting of IRI parameters: electron and ion (O+, H+, He+, O2+, NO+) densities, total electron content, electron, ion and neutral (CIRA-86) temperatures, equatorial vertical ion drift and others. The output is given as a function of one user-selected independent variable. Please acknowledge SPDF/Modelweb in publications that use data and plots from this interface.

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* Select Date and Time
Year(1958-2009):
Note:If date is outside the Ap index range (1960-2009/11), then STORM model will be turned off.
Month: Day(1-31):
Time Hour of day (e.g. 1.5):
* Select Coordinates
Coordinates Type
Latitude(deg.,from -90. to 90.): Longitude(deg.,from 0. to 360.)
Height (km, from 60. to 2000.):
Note: Note: For Profile types other than 'Height' the user can enter Height=0. to obtain peak heights and densities,
or Height= -1. to obtain bottomside/valley parameters and plasma frequencies.
or Height= -2. to obtain F-region equ. vert. ion drift and F1 occurrence parameters
* Select a Profile type and its parameters:
Start Stop Stepsize


Optional Input:
Sunspot number(Rz12) Ionospheric index(IG12)
Electron content: Upper boundary (km., from 50. - 2000. )
F peak model Bottomside Thickness Ion Composition
foF2 Storm model Topside Te D-Region Ne
F1 occurrence probability:

Note: User may specify the following two parameters only for Profile type 'Height':
NmF2/cm-3 (1000.-100000000.) or foF2/MHz(2.-14.):
hmF2/km (100. - 1000.) or M(3000)F2(1.5 - 4.):


SPDF > ModelWeb

Send questions about this model available from SPDF, to Dr. Dieter Bilitza, E-mail: bilitza@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov. Send questions about WWW access to this model to Dr. Natalia Papitashvili, E-mail: Natalia.E.Papitashvili@gsfc.nasa.gov, Mail Code 672, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771

NASA Official: Dr. Robert McGuire, Head of the Space Physics Data Facility