MAVEN/NGIMS Thermospheric Neutral Wind Observations: Interpretation Using the M‐GITM General Circulation Model

Funding support for this research was provided by the MAVEN project, Grant NNH10CC04C. This work was also supported by NASA Headquarters under the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program - Grant 80NSSC18K1238. Funding for F.Gonzalez-Galindo and M. A.Lopez-Valverde was provided by the Spanish National Research Council under intramural project CSIC 201450E022. NGIMS data sets used in this paper are available on the Planetary Data System (http://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/data_and_services/atmospheres_data/MAVEN/ngims.html) as well as EUV data sets (https://pds-ppi.igpp.ucla.edu/search/view/?f=yes&id=pds://PPI/maven.euv.modelled). Data cubes containing M-GITM simulations used in this paper can be found on the University of Michigan Deep Blue repository (http://doi.org/10.7302/85qt-e980).