# Towards a Real-Time Description of the Ionosphere:
## 10 Conclusions
### Institutional Review Board Statement:  
**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable. **Data Availability Statement:** Data from ionospheric observatories are available via the public access portal of the Digital Ionogram Database ([[http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/](http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/)]([http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/](http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/)), accessed on 30 July 2021) of the Global Ionosphere Radio Observatory in Lowell, MA. COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Radio Occultation data are available at the COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center (CDAAC, [[https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/](https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/)]([https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/](https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/)), accessed on 30 July 2021). IRTAM Fortran package and GAMBIT coefficients are available at GAMBIT Consortium website ([[http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/](http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/)]([http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/](http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/)), accessed on 30 July 2021). IRI Fortran code is available at the IRI website ([[http://irimodel.org/](http://irimodel.org/)]([http://irimodel.org/](http://irimodel.org/)), accessed on 30 July 2021). The \(a_{\rm p}\) magnetic activity index was downloaded from NASA's Space Physics Data Facility of the Goddard Space Flight Center ([[https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/omni/high_res_omni/](https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/omni/high_res_omni/)]([https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/omni/high_res_omni/](https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/omni/high_res_omni/)), accessed on 30 July 2021). The F10.7 solar index was downloaded through the OMINWeb Data Explorer website ([[https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/form/dxl.html](https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/form/dxl.html)]([https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/form/dxl.html](https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/form/dxl.html)), accessed on 30 July 2021) maintained by the NASA. **Acknowledgments:** This publication uses data from ionospheric observatories made available via the public access portal of the Digital Ionogram Database ([[http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/](http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/)]([http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/](http://ulcar.uml.edu/DIDBase/)), accessed on 30 July 2021) of the Global Ionosphere Radio Observatory in Lowell, MA. The authors are indebted to the observatory directors and ionosonde operators for the significant investments of their time, effort, expertise, and funds needed to acquire and provide measurement data to academic research. The authors thank the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 team for making freely available Radio Occultation data through the COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center (CDAAC, [[https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/](https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/)]([https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/](https://data.cosmic.ucar.edu/gnss-ro/cosmic1/)), accessed on 30 July 2021). [PERSON] and the entire GAMBIT Consortium ( [[http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/](http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/)]([http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/](http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/)), accessed on 30 July 2021) are acknowledged for providing access to IRTAM computations ([[http://giro.uml.edu/IRTAM](http://giro.uml.edu/IRTAM)]([http://giro.uml.edu/IRTAM](http://giro.uml.edu/IRTAM)), accessed on 30 July 2021/), IRTAM Fortran package, and to the GAMBIT coefficients ([[https://ulcar.uml.edu/GAMBIT/GambitCoefficients/](https://ulcar.uml.edu/GAMBIT/GambitCoefficients/)]([https://ulcar.uml.edu/GAMBIT/GambitCoefficients/](https://ulcar.uml.edu/GAMBIT/GambitCoefficients/)), accessed on 30 July 2021). The IRI team is acknowledged for developing and maintaining the IRI model and for giving access to the corresponding Fortran code via the IRI website ([[http://irimodel.org/](http://irimodel.org/)]([http://irimodel.org/](http://irimodel.org/)), accessed on 30 July 2021).