Welcome to the UNB Radio and Space Physics Laboratory (RSPL)


	CHAIN 2019 Team Grise Fiord 2015 Grise Fiord 2015

Research Areas

Instrumentation	Ionospheric Model Development	Fundamental Research
• Canadian Advanced Digital Ionosonde (CADI)	• Empirical Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (E-CHAIM)	• Physics of Solar - Terrestrial interaction
• Modular Ionospheric Sounder (MODIS)	• Assimilative Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (A-CHAIM)	• Vertical coupling in the atmosphere
• Broadband RF receivers	• Canadian High Arctic Scintillation Model (CHASM)	• Metrology
• GNSS receiver technology		• Data science

Current state of the ionosphere:


NmF2	TEC	hmF2

Projects

• Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN)	• Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Models (CHAIM)	• Modular Ionospheric Sounder (MODIS)
• Assimilative Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (A-CHAIM)	• Empirical Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (E-CHAIM)	• Retrospective Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (R-CHAIM)
• Geospatial and Space Weather Network Canada (GSWNCan)

Most Recent Publications

Themens, D., Elvidge, S., McCaffrey, A., Jayachandran, P., Coster, A., Varney, R., Galkin, I., Goodwin, L., Watson, C., Maguire, S., Kavanagh, A., Zhang, S., Goncharenko, L., Bhatt, A., Dorrian, G., Groves, K., Wood, A., Reid, B., (2024), The High Latitude Ionospheric Response to the Major May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm: A Synoptic View, Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Ivarsen, M., Huyghebaert, D., Gillies, M., St‐Maurice, J., Themens, D., Oppenheim, M., Gustavsson, B., Billett, D., Pitzel, B., Galeschuk, D., Donovan, E., Hussey, G., (2024), Turbulence Around Auroral Arcs, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Olugbon, B., Oyeyemi, E., Kashcheyev, A., Rabiu, A., Obafaye, A., (2024), Ionospheric Signatures from 2 years Continuous Monitoring of the Equatorial Ionosphere over Nigeria with HF Doppler Sounder, Advances in Space Research. Elsevier BV. link

Wang, L., Zhang, Q., Wang, F., Wang, Y., Xing, Z., Ma, Y., Liu, J., Hu, Z., Chen, X., Hu, H., Lu, S., Xiu, Z., Jayachandran, P., (2024), Comparison of the Occurrence Morphology of Phase Scintillation of GPS and Beidou Signals at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Prikryl, P., (2024), Mesoscale weather influenced by auroral gravity waves contributing to conditional symmetric instability release?, Adv. Sci. Res.. Copernicus GmbH. link

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