In February, 2018, a specialized engineering team, led by principal investigator Dr. Qian Wu, traveled from Boulder, Colorado to a NASA facility in Palestine, Texas. The team spent two weeks working with NASA colleagues performing compatibility testing between the HiWIND electrical systems and the NASA balloon command and control communications systems.
During his thesis work at HAO, Newkirk Fellow Ricky Egeland developed a solar-stellar database called sunstardb. The "solar-stellar connection" began as a relatively small field of research focused on understanding the processes that generate magnetic field in stars and sometimes lead to a cyclic pattern of long-term variability in activity, similar to the one demonstrated by our Sun.
New mechanisms for imposing planetary-wave (PW) variability on the ionosphere thermosphere system are discovered in numerical experiments conducted with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Thermosphere-Ionosphere- Electrodynamics General circulation Model (TIE-GCM).
A short guide to spectroscopy is given, with emphasis upon the elementary physics needed to understand and begin modeling the radiation emerging from astrophysical plasmas using the Sun as a guide, without bias towards a particular region of the Sun's atmosphere.
The high-resolution thermosphere-ionosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model (TIEGCM) was used to investigate the cause of F2-region electron density (Ne) responses to the Great American Solar Eclipse on 21 August 2017 at Millstone Hill (42.610N, 71.480W).
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