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

Meziane, K., Hamza, A., Jayachandran, P., (2024), The Curvature of TEC as a Proxy for Ionospheric Amplitude Scintillation, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Themens, D., Elvidge, S., McCaffrey, A., Jayachandran, P., Coster, A., Varney, R., Galkin, I., Goodwin, L., Watson, C., Maguire, S., Kavanagh, A., Zhang, S., Goncharenko, L., Bhatt, A., Dorrian, G., Groves, K., Wood, A., Reid, B., (2024), The High Latitude Ionospheric Response to the Major May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm: A Synoptic View, Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

Shvets, A., Hobara, Y., Hayakawa, M., Shvets, A., Koloskov, O., Yampolsky, Y., (2024), Investigation of anomalous lightning activity during the January 15, 2022 Tonga volcano eruption based on measurements of the VLF and ELF electromagnetic fields, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Elsevier BV. link

Reznychenko, M., Kotov, D., Bogomaz, O., Zhivolup, T., Reznychenko, A., Zalizovski, A., Koloskov, O., Lisachenko, V., Dzyubanov, D. (2024), Ionospheric response to the February 27, 2023 intense geomagnetic storm over Kharkiv and the Akademik Vernadsky station, UAJ. State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. link

Ivarsen, M., Huyghebaert, D., Gillies, M., St‐Maurice, J., Themens, D., Oppenheim, M., Gustavsson, B., Billett, D., Pitzel, B., Galeschuk, D., Donovan, E., Hussey, G., (2024), Turbulence Around Auroral Arcs, JGR Space Physics. American Geophysical Union (AGU). link

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