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 |
• 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 |
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Projects
Most Recent Publications
- Zhao, D., Li, W., Li, C., Tang, X., Wang, Q., Hancock, C. M., et al. (2022), Ionospheric Phase Scintillation Index Estimation Based on 1 Hz Geodetic GNSS Receiver Measurements by Using Continuous Wavelet Transform, Space Weather. American Geophysical Union (AGU) link
- Nie, W., Wang, Y., Rovira-Garcia, A., Zheng, D., & Xu, T. (2022), Effect of the polar cap ionospheric sporadic-E layer on GNSS-based positioning: a case study at Resolute Bay, Canada, September 5, 2012., GPS Solutions. link
- Themens, D. R., Watson, C., Zagar, N., Vasylkevych, S., Elvidge, S., McCaffrey, A., et al. (2022), Global propagation of ionospheric disturbances associated with the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption., Geophysical Research Letters link
- Zhao, D., Li, W., Wang, Q., Liu, X., Li, C., Hancock, C. M., et al. (2022), Statistical study on the characterization of phase and amplitude scintillation events in the high-latitude region during 2014-2020 based on ISMR, Advances in Space Research. Elsevier BV link
- Themens, D. R., Reid, B., Elvidge, S. (2022), ARTIST Ionogram Autoscaling Confidence Scores: Best Practices, URSI Radio Science Letters. International Union of Radio Science (URSI) link