SA038-01
The Ionospheric Connection Explorer: Results from Year #1 on Orbit.
Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 10:00
Virtual
Thomas J Immel1, Scott England2, Stephen B Mende3, Roderick A Heelis4, Jerry Edelstein5, Eric Korpela6, Christoph R Englert7, Astrid I Maute8, Jeffrey M M Forbes9, Brian Joseph Harding10, Yen-Jung Joanne Wu11, Colin Charles Triplett12, Martin M Sirk13, Andrew W Stephan14, Joseph Huba15, Geoff Crowley16, Harald U Frey17, Farzad Kamalabadi18, Michael H Stevens7, Jonathan J Makela19, John Harlander20, Kenneth David Marr7, Ulas Kamaci10, Robert R Meier21, Gary S Bust22, Gary R Swenson23, Oswald Siegmund24 and The Ionospheric Connection Explorer Team, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia, VA, United States, (3)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (5)Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (8)NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (11)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (12)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (13)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (14)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (15)US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (16)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (18)University of Illinois, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (19)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (20)SCSU, St Cloud, MN, United States, (21)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (22)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (23)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (24)Sensor Sciences, LLC, Pleasant Hill, CA, United States
Abstract:
The NASA Ionospheric Connection Explorer has provided a full year of coordinated measurements of the ionosphere and thermosphere, with excellent performance of its instruments and the observing platform. Its measurements support ICON’s specific mission objectives to 1) determine the source of strong day-to-day variability in ionospheric densities, 2) determine how large-scale atmospheric waves propagate upward and interact with the ionosphere, and 3) understand how these effects interact with and modify geomagnetic storm phenomena. We will discuss some of the more remarkable effects observed by ICON, and how the analysis of these data is leading to new understanding of the behavior of the ITM system. This will include a brief review of comparisons to other measurements and a summary of validation efforts that have improved the ICON data products.
