“…The model describes monthly averages of the electron density, electron and ion temperature, total electron content (TEC), and ion composition as a function of height, location, and local time. Several major milestone editions of IRI were released by the IRI Working Group since the 1970s in order to constantly revising the model to remain it up to date and accurate as possible (Rawer et al, 1978a(Rawer et al, , 1978b(Rawer et al, , 1981Bilitza, 1990Bilitza, , 2001Bilitza and Rawer, 1996;Bilitza and Reinisch, 2008;Bilitza et al, 2014Bilitza et al, , 2017. The latest version is known as IRI-2016 and has important improvements over the and 2007versions (IRI-2012and IRI-2007).…”