SA11D:
Understanding and Forecasting Equatorial Spread F and Scintillation I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States and Cesar E Valladares, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Cesar E Valladares, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States and J Vincent Eccles, Space Environment Corporation, Providence, UT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Forcasting Equatorial Spread-F on a Night to Night Basis in 5 Longitude Sectors
David N Anderson, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert J Redmon, Natl Geophysical Data Ctr, Boulder, CO, United States and Terence W Bullett, CIRES - NOAA/NGDC, Boulder, CO, United States
8:15 AM
 
Complex plasma structuring in the equatorial ionosphere
Joseph D Huba, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
8:30 AM
 
Observations of TEC Depletions in South and Central America
Cesar E Valladares, Robert E Sheehan and Rezy Pradipta, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
8:45 AM
 
A New 50 MHz Phased-Array Radar on Pohnpei: A Fresh Perspective on Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
Roland T Tsunoda, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
9:00 AM
 
The Postsunset Vertical Plasma Drift and Its Effects on the Generation of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Observed by the C/NOFS Satellite
Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States and Marc R Hairston, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
9:15 AM
 
Multi-Probe Observations of Equatorial F Region Plassma Irregularities
Bela G Fejer1, Debrup Hui1, Cheryl Y Huang2, Patrick A Roddy3, Claudia Stolle4, Chao Xiong4, Jaeheung Park4, Herman Luhr4, Marco A Milla5 and Mangalathayil A Abdu6, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (4)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (5)Instituto GeofĂ­sico del PerĂș, Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Lima, Peru, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
9:30 AM
 
Radar investigations of June solstice F-region irregularities
Fabiano S Rodrigues1, Gebreab K Zewdie1, Russell Stoneback1 and Eurico R Paula2, (1)University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
9:45 AM
 
On Seasonal/Longitudinal Distributions of Post-Midnight Quiettime Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities
Shin-Yi Su, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, Chao Han Liu, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and C. L. Wu, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Institute of Space Science, Jhongli, Taiwan
 
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