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Impact of Global Data Assimilation System atmospheric models on astroparticle showers
We present a methodology to simulate the impact of the Global Data
Assimilation System (GDAS) atmospheric models in particle flux on detectors at
the Earth's surface. To validate our methodology, we built GDAS monthly
profiles over Malarg\"ue between 2006 and 2011, comparing the maximum
atmospheric depth, , with those calculated with the Auger atmospheric
option in CORSIKA. We found that difference does not exceed 2% for both
. The methodology was implemented, for the city of Bucaramanga
Colombia, using ARTI --a full computational framework developed by the Latin
American Giant Observatory Collaboration, to estimate the signals expected at
their Water Cherenkov Detectors network--. In our simulations for the year
2018, we observed that the most significant differences in the total flux,
between predefined atmospheric profiles and GDAS models, occur in November and
April. There also is a clear anti-correlation between the particle flux and the
monthly average temperature