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

Simon Wedlund, C., Mazelle, C., Meziane, K., Bertucci, C., Volwerk, M., Preisser, L., Schmid, D., Halekas, J., McFadden, J., Mitchell, D., Espley, J., Henri, P., (2025), Local Generation of Mirror Modes by Pickup Protons at Mars, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Kashcheyev, A., Nava, B., Watson, C., Jayachandran, P., Langley, R., (2025), EclipseNB: A Network of Low‐Cost GNSS Receivers to Study the Ionosphere, Space Weather. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Yin, Y., González-Casado, G., Juan, J., Timoté, C., García-Mateos, J., Orús-Pérez, R., Aragon-Angel, A., Rovira-Garcia, A., (2025), Real-time Worldwide Monitoring of Ionospheric Scintillation Using Geodetic Detrending, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). link

Aylett, T., Feng, W., Marsh, D., Themens, D., Plane, J., (2025), Characteristics of Sporadic E Layer Occurrence in a Global Chemistry‐Climate Model: A Comparison With COSMIC‐Derived Data, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Vadas, S., Themens, D., Huba, J., Becker, E., Bossert, K., Goncharenko, L., Maguire, S., Figueiredo, C., Xu, S., Harvey, V., Frissell, N., Molzen, M., Pisano, T., Nykiel, G., (2024), Higher‐Order Gravity Waves and Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances From the Polar Vortex Jet on 11–15 January 2016: Modeling With HIAMCM‐SAMI3 and Comparison With Observations in the Thermosphere, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

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