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


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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

Lu, S., Xing, Z., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Oksavik, K., Lyons, L., Shiokawa, K., Wang, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, X., Xu, T., Sun, S., Zhang, D., (2025), Ionospheric Scintillation and Geomagnetic Disturbance Caused by Space Hurricanes, Space Weather. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Günzkofer, F., Stober, G., Kero, J., Themens, D., Tjulin, A., Gulbrandsen, N., Tsutsumi, M., Borries, C., (2025), Indications for particle precipitation impact on the ion-neutral collision frequency analyzed with EISCAT measurements, Ann. Geophys.. Copernicus GmbH. link

Thayaparan, T., Chiu, M., Themens, D., (2025), Modeling the Impact of Sporadic-E on Over-the-Horizon Radar (OTHR) in the Polar Region, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). link

Meziane, K., Mazelle, C., Simon‐Wedlund, C., Halekas, J., Hamza, A., Bertucci, C., Mitchell, D., Espley, J., (2025), Field‐Aligned Proton Beams Upstream of the Martian Bow Shock: First Observations, Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Nickolaenko, A., Hayakawa, M., Koloskov, O., (2025), Impact of Solar Activity on Schumann Resonance: Model and Experiment, Atmosphere. MDPI AG. link

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