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

Mackovjak, ., Kostárová, S., Chum, J., Schmidt, C., Hannawald, P., Wüst, S., Küchelbacher, L., Truhlík, V., Knížová, P., Urbář, J., Randuška, L., Štempel, F., Kubančák, J., (2026), Dataset of Quiet Space Weather Periods for Ionospheric Studies, Earth and Space Science. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Zhan, Y., Xing, Z., Xu, T., Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., Yang, Q., Qiao, F., Ma, Y., Lu, S., Fang, Y., (2026), Prediction of Arctic Ionospheric Scintillation Using Stacked Machine Learning, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Gurney, E., Themens, D., Brown, M., Elvidge, S., (2026), Validation of Ionospheric Models at Mid‐ and High‐Latitudes: Climatological Performance of WACCM‐X (SD) and TIE‐GCM in foF2, Space Weather. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Wang, Y., Zhang, Q., Chen, Y., Ning, Y., Xing, Z., Ma, Y., Zhao, L., Wang, X., Lu, S., Xiu, Z., Zhang, D., Zhang, S., Jayachandran, P., (2026), Ionospheric Responses to the Recovery Phase of May 2024 Superstorm Over Shandong Peninsula of China, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Thakrar, C., Gachancipa, N., Deshpande, K., Bals, A., Paxton, L., (2026), Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High‐Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms, Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

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