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

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

Zhao, L., Zhang, Q., Yue, X., He, J., Wang, Y., Xing, Z., Zhou, X., Ma, Y., Jayachandran, P., Oksavik, K., Lyons, L., Xu, T., Sun, S., (2025), A Regional 3‐D Data Assimilation Model for the Ionospheric Electron Density at Middle‐to‐High Latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, Space Weather. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Wang, Y., Jayachandran, P., Wang, F., Zhang, Q., Sun, S., Xu, T., Xing, Z., Ma, Y., Ruohoniemi, J., Shepherd, S., (2025), The statistical correlations of rate of change of TEC index (ROTI) on the standard scintillation indices over the Canadian Arctic, Front. Astron. Space Sci.. Frontiers Media SA. link

Nickolaenko, A., Hayakawa, M., Koloskov, O., (2025), Schumann resonance as a remote sensor of lower ionosphere and global thunderstorms as based on the long-term observations at Antarctic and Arctic stations, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Elsevier BV. link

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