SA12A:
Advances in Ionospheric Forecasting: Modeling, Observations, and Validation I

Session ID#: 2133

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Dastgeer Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States and James C Jones, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States
Primary Convener:  Dastgeer Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States
Co-conveners:  James C Jones, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States and Rodney A Viereck, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dastgeer Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2407 Auroral ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
2415 Equatorial ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
2439 Ionospheric irregularities [IONOSPHERE]
2447 Modeling and forecasting [IONOSPHERE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SA12A-01
Ionospheric Data Assimilation from a Data Provider’s Perspective (Invited) (5943)
Robert K Schaefer1, Larry J Paxton1, Gary S Bust2, Yongliang Zhang1, Giuseppe Romeo3, Joseph Comberiate4 and Lynette J Gelinas5, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)John Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)The Aerospace Corporation, Space Science Applications Laboratory, Los Angeles, United States
SA12A-02
Global Real-Time Nowcasting of Ionosphere with Giro-Driven Assimilative IRI (Invited) (3494)
Ivan A Galkin1, Bodo W Reinisch2,3, Xueqin A Huang3, Artem Vesnin4, Dieter Bilitza5 and Paul Song6, (1)Borealis Global Designs, Varna, Bulgaria, (2)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (3)Lowell Digisonde International, Lowell, MA, United States, (4)Univ Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (5)George Mason University, Washington, United States, (6)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Physics and Applied Physics, Space Science Lab, Lowell, MA, United States
SA12A-03
Forecasting the Ionosphere Driven by Solar, Geomagnetic, and Lower Atmosphere Disturbances (Invited) (3488)
Timothy J Fuller-Rowell1, Mihail Codrescu2, Tzu-Wei Fang3, Houjun Wang4, Rashid A Akmaev5, Fei Wu4, Mariangel Fedrizzi6, Juan M Fontenla7 and John Michael Retterer8, (1)Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (2)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA/SWPC - University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
SA12A-04
The USU-GAIM Data Assimilation Models for Ionospheric Specifications and Forecasts (Invited) (18654)
Ludger Scherliess1,2, Robert Walter Schunk2, Larry C Gardner1, Lie Zhu2 and Jan Josef Sojka3, (1)Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States
SA12A-05
Sun-Burned: Space Weather's Impact on United States National Security (27489)
Bradley Stebbins, HQ AFWA/XOGX, Offutt AFB, NE, United States
SA12A-06
FUSION++: A New Data Assimilative Model for Electron Density Forecasting (25442)
Gary S Bust1, Joseph Comberiate1, Larry J Paxton2, Mike Kelly1 and Seebany Datta-Barua3, (1)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Illinois Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chicago, United States
SA12A-07
Forecasting Solar UV & F10.7 with ADAPT (3283)
Carl J Henney, AFRL, Space Warfare Directorate, Albuquerque, United States, Rachel A Hock, USAF/AFRL, Albuquerque, NM, United States, W. Alex Toussaint, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, Alicia Kathryn Petersen, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, Charles Nickolos Arge, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stephen M White, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
SA12A-08
Forecasting Ionospheric Space Weather Due To High Speed Streams (21404)
Anthony J Mannucci1, Olga P Verkhoglyadova2, Xing Meng3, Bruce Tsurutani2, Xiaoqing Pi2, Erin Michelle Lynch4, Surja Sharma5, Aaron J Ridley6, Ward Manchester7, Chunming Wang8 and Gary Rosen8, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Montgomery Village, MD, United States, (6)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
SA12A-09
A Statistical Comparison of Coupled Thermosphere-Ionosphere Models (17987)
Lucas Liuzzo, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
SA12A-10
Validation of High Frequency (HF) Propagation Prediction Models in the Arctic region (17423)
Racheal Athieno, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada and Periyadan T Jayachandran, University of New Brunswick, Department of Physics, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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