SA13A:
Advances in Ionospheric Forecasting: Modeling, Observations, and Validation II Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Dastgeer Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States and James C Jones, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Dastgeer Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Characteristics of High-latitude and Equatorial Ionospheric Scintillation of GNSS Signals
Yu Morton1,2 and Yu Jiao2, (1)Miami University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oxford, OH, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Validation of IRI-2012 and NeQuick2 Derived TEC, NmF2, hmF2, B0, B1 and HT during the High Solar Activity over Brazilian Equatorial and Low Latitude sectors
Venkatesh Kavutarapu1, Paulo Roberto Fagundes1, Rodolfo de Jesus2, Alessandro José de Abreu1 and Valdir G Pillat1, (1)UNIVAP University of Vale do Paraíba, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Universidade do Vale do Paraíba, São José dos Campos, Brazil
 
Assessment of Modeling Capability for Reproducing Storm Impacts on TEC
Ja-Soon Shim1, Maria M Kuznetsova2, Lutz Rastaetter2, Dieter Bilitza3, Mihail Codrescu4, Anthea J Coster5, Barbara A Emery6, Matthias Foerster7, Ben Foster6, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell8, Joseph D Huba9, Larisa P Goncharenko5, Anthony J Mannucci10, Alexander A Namgaladze11, Xiaoqing Pi10, Boris E Prokhorov7, Aaron J Ridley12, Ludger Scherliess13, Robert Walter Schunk13, Jan Josef Sojka13 and Lie Zhu13, (1)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)George Mason University, Washington, DC, United States, (4)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (8)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Murmansk State Technical University, Murmansk, Russia, (12)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (13)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Monitoring and Modeling of Ionosphere Irregularities Caused By Space Weather Activity on the Base of GNSS Measurements
Iurii Cherniak, Institute of Geophysics Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, Irina Zakharenkova, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Andrzej Krankowski, University of Warmia & Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland and Irk Shagimuratov, West Department of IZMIRAN, Klainingrad, Russia
 
Ionospheric Poynting Flux and Joule Heating Modeling Challenge: Latest Results and New Models.
Lutz Rastaetter1, Ja-Soon Shim2, Maria M Kuznetsova3, Delores J Knipp4, Yihua Zheng3, Russell B Cosgrove5, Patrick T Newell6, Daniel R Weimer7, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell8 and Wenbin Wang9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)SRI International San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Virginia Tech, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (8)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Performance Evaluation of the IRI2012 Model at Equatorial Region during Time of Minimum Ionization in the F2 Region
Elijah Oyedola Oyeyemi, Adewale Adekola, Olawale Bolaji, Andrew O Akala and Busola Olugbon, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
 
Sensitivity of IFM/GAIM-GM Model to High-Cadence Kp and F10.7 Input
Jeremy Joseph Hromsco, Air Force Weather Agency Offutt AFB, Offutt AFB, NE, United States
 
Ionospheric Forecast during Sudden Stratospheric Warming Using the IDEA Model
Houjun Wang1, Rashid A Akmaev2, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell1, Tzu-Wei Fang1 and Jun Wang3, (1)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)IMSG and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD, United States
 
Assimilation of DMSP/SSUSI UV data into IDA4D
Lynette J Gelinas1, Gary S Bust2, Douglas G Brinkman1, Paul R Straus1 and Raymond L Swartz1, (1)The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Inverse Modeling Using a Novel Scintillation Model Sigma to Characterize High Latitude Irregularities During a Storm and a Substorm
Kshitija Deshpande1, Gary S Bust2, C. Robert Clauer3, Hyomin Kim1 and Daniel R Weimer4, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Tech, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Space Weather Prediction Error Bounding for Real-Time Ionospheric Threat Adaptation of GNSS Augmentation Systems
Jinsil Lee, Moonseok Yoon and Jiyun Lee, KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Creating a Scale for Ionospheric Distubance
Hanna Kristensen, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, United States and Mihail Codrescu, SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
 
On the Effect of “Patchy” Aurora and Auroral Arcs on GPS Signals: Initial Investigations
Sajan C Mushini1, Eric Donovan1, Periyadan T Jayachandran2, Richard B Langley2, Paul Prikryl3, Emma Spanswick1 and Brian J Jackel1, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (3)Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
The IONORT-ISP-WC System: Inclusion of an Electron Collision Frequency Model for the D-Layer
Alessandro Settimi, Marco Pietrella, Michael Pezzopane and Cesidio Bianchi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
 
GNSS Radio Occultation Observations as a data source for Ionospheric Assimilation: COSMIC-1 & COSMIC-2
Xinan Yue, William Steven Schreiner and Ying-Hwa Kuo, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Forecasting the Ionosphere Response to Solar Flares from Satellite Measurements of X-ray and EUV Flux
Christopher T Fallen1, William A Bristow1, Michael J Nicolls2 and Rodney A Viereck3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Searching for Appropriate Data and Parameters for Effective Representation of Ionospheric Dynamics; Modelling and Observational Results over the African Sector
John Bosco Habarulema1,2, Zama Thobeka Katamzi1, Lee-Anne McKinnell1 and Matamba Tshimangadzo1,2, (1)South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa, (2)Rhodes University, Department of Physics and Electronics, Grahamstown, South Africa
 
Ensemble Ionospheric Total Electron Content Forecasting during Storms
Alex Chartier1, Cathryn N Mitchell2, Gang Lu3, Jeffrey L Anderson4, Nancy Collins4, Timothy J Hoar4, Gary S Bust5 and Tomoko Matsuo6, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
An empirical model of solar indices and hemispheric power based on DMSP/SSUSI data
Dastgeer Shaikh and James C Jones, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States
 
Modeling the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere response to an intense X-class solar flare
Paulo Nogueira1, Jonas Souza1, Mangalathayil A Abdu1, Ricardo da Rosa Paes1, Jonas Sousa Santos1, Manilo S Marques1, Graham J Bailey2, Ricardo Cueva3, Clezio Marcos De Nardin1, Hisao Takahashi1, Inez Staciarini Batista1 and Sony S Chen1, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (3)Presbyterian Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
Performance of the IRI-2012 model in the equatorial region: Variations with longitude and solar activity 
Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Angeline G Burrell, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, Dieter Bilitza, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Roderick A Heelis, University Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
 
Topside Ionosphere Variability and Response to Solar EUV Using Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis
Jessica Hawkins and Phillip Charles Anderson, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
 
Comparisons of the NRL SAMI3 Physics-Based Ionospheric Model with Global Ionosonde and GPS Electron Density Measurements
Carl L Siefring, Anish Tondwalkar, Sarah E McDonald, Joseph D Huba, Jonathan Krall, John T Emmert, Douglas Patrick Drob, Judith Lean and Paul A Bernhardt, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Topside Ionospheric Temperatures As a Function of Solar Cycle Measured By Cindi from the C/NOFS Spacecraft
William Robin Coley and Roderick A Heelis, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
 
Ionospheric TEC variations at mid-latitudes obsereved using SBAS L1/L5 signals.
Artem M Padokhin1, Viacheslav Kunitsyn1, Gregory Kurbatov1 and Yuryi Yasyukevich2, (1)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, (2)Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
 
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