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Formation of Double Tongues of Ionization During the 17 March 2013 Geomagnetic Storm

Graphic image showing polar maps of the simulated electron density
Friday, October 2, 2020

During geomagnetic disturbances, enhanced high‐latitude convection transports ionospheric F2‐region plasma from the dayside midlatitude region into the polar cap, leading to structures such as tongues of ionization (TOIs) and patches.

Dipolar elementary current systems for ionospheric current reconstruction at low and middle latitudes

Graphic image showing the maps of the E-region horizontal and radial currents
Friday, October 2, 2020

The flow of ionospheric current can be probed by examining magnetic field measurements at the ground and at Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) altitude.

Comparison of GOLD nighttime measurements with total electron content: preliminary results

Graphic image depicting the comparison between the GOLD map and TEC2 map
Friday, August 28, 2020

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global‐scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) has been imaging the thermosphere and ionosphere since October 2018. It provides continuous measurements over a large area from its geostationary orbit.

Deepak Karan

Submitted by whawkins on August 7, 2020 - 1:13pm

Deepak Karan is a visiting postdoc at HAO/NCAR. He pursued his Ph.D. work at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India and received a degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India.

Assimilation of Ionosphere Observations in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere-ionosphere eXtension (WACCMX)

Graphic image of WACCMX+DART experiments
Thursday, July 16, 2020

The Earth’s upper atmosphere impacts a wide range of technologies, including satellite communication and navigation signals. Specification and forecasting of the upper atmosphere are critical for mitigating these effects.

Preliminary Evidence of Madden-Julian Oscillation Effects on Ultra-Fast Tropical Waves in the Thermosphere

Graphic image of altitude (50-260 km) versus MJO phase depiction
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Over the past two decades mounting evidence demonstrated that terrestrial weather significantly influences the dynamics and mean state of the thermosphere.

Haonan Wu

Submitted by whawkins on May 12, 2020 - 9:59am

Haonan Wu is a visiting scientist in the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Haonan graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China and obtained his BS degree in Space Physics in 2017. He joined Clemson University in Fall 2017.

Junjie Chen

Submitted by whawkins on April 17, 2020 - 8:15am

Junjie Chen is a scientific visitor in the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include electrodynamics in the upper atmospheric.

Chih-Ting Hsu

Submitted by whawkins on April 17, 2020 - 8:09am

Chih-Ting Hsu is a postdoctoral fellow in the High Altitude Observatory at NCAR. She’s mainly working on coupled upper atmosphere data assimilation.

Xueling Shi

Submitted by whawkins on April 10, 2020 - 1:57pm

Dr. Xueling Shi is a scientific visitor in the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Xueling received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and is now a postdoctoral associate there.

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