Chairs: W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States and Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Humberto C Godinez, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons: W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States
A Multimodel Ensemble Data Assimilation Approach to Specify Ionospheric Weather
Ludger Scherliess1, Robert Walter Schunk1, Larry C Gardner2, Lie Zhu1, Vincent Eccles1, Jan Josef Sojka1, Xiaoqing Pi3, Mark D Butala4, Anthony J Mannucci4, Brian D Wilson4, Attila Komjathy3, Chunming Wang5 and Gary Rosen5, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Towards forecasting IRTAM: patterns in foF2/hmF2 global assimilative maps during storm events
Artem Vesnin, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, Ivan A Galkin, Univ Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, Dieter Bilitza, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Bodo W Reinisch, Lowell Digisonde International, Lowell, MA, United States
Global High-Latitude Conductivity Modeling: New Data and Improved Methods
Ryan Michael McGranaghan1, Delores J Knipp1, Tomoko Matsuo2 and Humberto C Godinez3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Specification of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Environment Using Ensemble Kalman Filter with Orthogonal Transformations
Humberto C Godinez1, Earl C Lawrence1, David M Higdon2, Andrew C Walker2, Richard Linares2, Aaron J Ridley3, Josef Koller1 and Alexei V Klimenko2, (1)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Supporting ITM Missions by Observing System Simulation Experiments: Initial Design, Challenges and Perspectives
Valery A Yudin1,2, Scott England3, Tomoko Matsuo2, Houjun Wang2, Thomas J Immel3, Richard Eastes4, Rashid A Akmaev5, Larisa P Goncharenko6, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell2, Hanli Liu1, Stanley C Solomon1 and Qian Wu1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Florida Space Inst, Orlando, FL, United States, (5)NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Study of Ionospheric Storms Using Global Assimilative Ionospheric Models
Xiaoqing Pi1, Mark Butala1, Anthony J Mannucci2, Brian D Wilson2, Attila Komjathy1, Chunming Wang3, Gary Rosen3, Robert Walter Schunk4, Ludger Scherliess4, Vincent Eccles4, Larry C Gardner5, Jan Josef Sojka4 and Lie Zhu4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (5)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Kalman filtering and smoothing of radiation belt observations on the basis of model and measurement error identification
Tatiana Podladchikova, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia, Yuri Shprits, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Adam C Kellerman, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Dmitri A Kondrashov, University of California Los Angeles, Atmos. Sci, Los Angeles, CA, United States
