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


	CHAIN 2019 Team Grise Fiord 2015 Grise Fiord 2015 Pond Inlet 2009 Grise Fiord 2024 Eureka 2024 Eureka 2024 Resolute 2024 Grise Fiord 2024

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
• Sanimut-based Ionosonde	• 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)	• Sanimut HF Measurement Platform
• Assimilative Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (A-CHAIM)	• Empirical Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (E-CHAIM)	• Retrospective Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (R-CHAIM)
• Space Weather Ionospheric Network Canada (SWINCan)

Most Recent Publications

Wang, Y., Zhang, Q., Chen, Y., Ning, Y., Xing, Z., Ma, Y., Zhao, L., Wang, X., Lu, S., Xiu, Z., Zhang, D., Zhang, S., Jayachandran, P., (2026), Ionospheric Responses to the Recovery Phase of May 2024 Superstorm Over Shandong Peninsula of China, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Thakrar, C., Gachancipa, N., Deshpande, K., Bals, A., Paxton, L., (2026), Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High‐Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms, Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Chang, H., Morton, Y., Brandmeyer, J., Themens, D., (2025), Analysis of Ionospheric Response to the May 2024 Geomagnetic Superstorm Using Commercial Radio Occultation Satellites and Ground‐Based Instruments, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Astafyeva, E., Maletckii, B., Ouar, I., Förster, M., Themens, D., Huba, J., Hairston, M., Coley, W., Fok, M., (2025), An Extraordinary Dayside Negative Ionospheric Storm of 11 May 2024 and Total Electron Content (TEC) Vortices, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Wang, Y., Jayachandran, P., Zhang, Q., Chen, Y., Xing, Z., Ma, Y., Nie, W., Zhao, B., Sun, J., Zhang, S., Shepherd, S., Koustov, S., (2025), Morphological Comparison of Standard Scintillation Indices at the Canadian Arctic During a Strong Geomagnetic Storm: A Case Study, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

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