SA21B:
Developing Critical Measurement Strategies in Ionosphere/Thermosphere/Mesosphere Research: Ideas and Priorities I Posters

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Session ID#: 18323

Session Description:
The National Academy Heliospheric Decadal Survey recommends science priorities for Ionosphere/Thermosphere/Mesosphere research.  Many of these priorities involve study of the coupled ionosphere-atmosphere-magnetosphere system from multiple vantage points, providing “global” measurements of this tightly coupled system.  In particular, distributed measurements of the behavior of both the electrodynamic/plasma environment and the coupled dynamics/neutral gas properties constitutes a consistent, recognized theme considered critical for achieving significant advances.  At low and mid-latitudes, the Decadal Survey articulated the need to measure lower atmosphere forcing with high temporal and spatial resolution to significantly advance our understanding of this important driver of the I-T system.  The purpose of this session is to foster community dialogue and interaction and to ensure that new observing strategies, including both ground-based and space-based concepts, consider current scientific understanding and newly-developed techniques in measurement, modeling, and theory.  Contributions that highlight outstanding problems as well as results that motivate further investigation, are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Larry J Paxton, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Asti Bhatt, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Elizabeth A Kendall, University of Central Florida, Orlando, CA, United States
Chairs:  Elizabeth A Kendall, University of Central Florida, Orlando, CA, United States and Asti Bhatt, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Asti Bhatt, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Index Terms:

7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7944 Ionospheric effects on radio waves [SPACE WEATHER]
7949 Ionospheric storms [SPACE WEATHER]
7969 Satellite drag [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Ionospheric Storm Reconstruction with a Multimodel Ensemble Prediction System (MEPS) of Data Assimilation Models: High Latitude Dynamics (126658)
James Vincent Eccles1, Robert Walter Schunk2, Ludger Scherliess2, Larry C Gardner2, Jan Josef Sojka3, Lie Zhu2, Xiaoqing Pi4, Anthony J Mannucci5, Attila Komjathy4, Chunming Wang6 and Gary Rosen6, (1)Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, 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, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Plasma Number Density Profiles derived from radio occultation on the CASSIOPE spacecraft (129444)
Esayas B Shume, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Attila Komjathy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Richard B Langley, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, Panagiotis Vergados, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Tibor Durgonics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
A Possible Approach to the Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Forecasting Problem (135326)
Jonas Sousasantos, Esfhan Alam Kherani and Jose H A Sobral, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Basis Functions for Data Assimilative Estimation of Ionosphere and Thermosphere States Across the Globe (137006)
Daniel Miladinovich, Illinois Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chicago, IL, United States, Seebany Datta-Barua, Illinois Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chicago, United States, Gary S Bust, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Characterizing the Ionosphere Using a Commercial Off the Shelf Software Defined Radio System (176532)
Magdalina Louise Moses1, Gregory Duane Earle2, Nathaniel A Frissell3, Lee Joseph Kordella4, Xiaoyu Han4 and Charudatta Chitale4, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (3)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research - Physics, Newark, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Swarm Ion Drifts From Combined Spherical and Planar Langmuir Probe Measurements (187041)
Johnathan K Burchill1, David J Knudsen1 and Stephan C Buchert2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Analysis of southwest propagating TIDs in the western United States (198426)
Elizabeth A Kendall, University of Central Florida, Orlando, CA, United States and Asti Bhatt, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Geophysical Inversion of Thermospheric Wind Observations by a Multistatic Network of Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometers Across Alaska, to Produce 2-Dimensional Maps of Three-Component Wind Vectors at 250 km Altitude. (191655)
John Elliott, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Mark Conde, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Space Physics, Fairbanks, AK, United States

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