the canonical value for a /He gas of $\mu=2.316$. [**Bottom:**]{} The resulting change in the atmospheric pressure scale height, $H$ \[$10^7$cm\], changes by $\Delta H\approx 6\cdot10^6$cm from the day- to the nightside at p$_{\rm gas}<0.5$bar. []{data-label="fig:meanmolweight"}](images/pressurescaleheight_Wasp43b.pdf "fig:"){width="1.0\linewidth"}

![[**Top:**]{} Carbon-to-oxygen ratio, C/O [(dashed horizontal line: solar C/O)]{}. [**Bottom:**]{} Degree of ionisation, $f_{\rm e}=p_{\rm gas, tot}/p_{\rm e}$ (dashed horizontal line: $f_{\rm e}=10^7$ as a threshold value for plasma behaviour). C/O and $f_{\rm e}$ are shown for all 1D profiles studied here for the atmosphere of WASP-43b. The nighside profiles are shown in blue, the dayside profiles in orange, the terminator profiles in grey.[]{data-label="fig:COratio"}](images/CO_ratio103_full_1707.pdf "fig:"){width="\linewidth"}\
![[**Top:**]{} Carbon-to-oxygen ratio, C/O [(dashed horizontal line: solar C/O)]{}. [**Bottom:**]{} Degree of ionisation, $f_{\rm e}=p_{\rm gas, tot}/p_{\rm e}$ (dashed horizontal line: $f_{\rm e}=10^7$ as a threshold value for plasma behaviour). C/O and $f_{\rm e}$ are shown for all 1D profiles studied here for the atmosphere of WASP-43b. The nighside profiles are shown in blue, the dayside profiles in orange, the terminator profiles in grey.[]{data-label="fig:COratio"}](images/deg_of_ion_103_1707.pdf "fig:"){width="\linewidth"}

Column integrated cloud properties
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Column integrated cloud properties may enable us to compare complex information without compromising the information content too much. All three characteristic cloud properties, nucleation rate, mean particles size 