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


	CHAIN 2019 Team Grise Fiord 2015 Grise Fiord 2015

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

Projects

• Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN)	• Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Models (CHAIM)	• Modular Ionospheric Sounder (MODIS)
• Assimilative Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (A-CHAIM)	• Empirical Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (E-CHAIM)	• Retrospective Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (R-CHAIM)
• Geospatial and Space Weather Network Canada (GSWNCan)

Most Recent Publications

Nie, W., Rovira‐Garcia, A., Li, M., Fang, Z., Wang, Y., Zheng, D., & Xu, T. (2022, June). The Mechanism for GNSS‐Based Kinematic Positioning Degradation at High‐Latitudes Under the March 2015 Great Storm. Space Weather. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

J Lamarche, L., B Deshpande, K., & D Zettergren, M. (2022, June 6). Observations and Modeling of Scintillation in the Vicinity of a Polar Cap Patch. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate. EDP Sciences. link

Yaysukevich, Yu., Astafyeva, E., Oinats, A., Vesnin, A., Yasyukevich, A., Vasiliev, A., et al. (2022, April 25). Multi-instrumental View of the Auroral Oval. 2022 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS). IEEE. link

Wang, Y., Themens, D. R., Wang, C., Ma, Y., Reimer, A., Varney, R., et al. (2022, May 23). Simultaneous observations of a Polar Cap Sporadic‐E Layer by Twin Incoherent Scatter Radars at Resolute. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Prikryl, P., Gillies, R. G., Themens, D. R., Weygand, J. M., Thomas, E. G., & Chakraborty, S. (2022, May 13). Multi-instrument observations of polar cap patches and traveling ionospheric disturbances generated by solar wind Alfvén waves coupling to the dayside magnetosphere. Copernicus GmbH. link

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