Reply to Comment by Zhang et al. on the Paper “Long-Term Variations of Exospheric Temperature Inferred From foF1 Observations: A Comparison to ISR Ti Trend Estimates” by Perrone and Mikhailov

摘要

The majority of Zhang et al. critical comments concern our method to retrieve aeronomic parameters from ionosonde f_oF_1 observations. The main idea of the method was described by Mikhailov and Perrone (2016, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022716), but it is seen that an additional clarification is required. The method has been slightly changed to meet numerous comments of referees, and its description is given here. The comments by Zhang et al. are analyzed and answered.