SA013
Ionospheric Model Validation for User Applications: Developments in Metrics, Datasets, and Methods

Session ID#: 157472

Session Description:
A broad range of user applications are crucially reliant on or affected by the state of the ionosphere; as such, the modeling and correction of these impacts is subsequently highly sensitive to the choice of ionospheric representation. There are now dozens of ionospheric models that have been developed by the community with varying degrees of maturity and availability; however, we still lack an understanding of whether these models meet the basic needs of radio propagation and other users. This is an opportunity for community members to share their ideas and proposals for how best to conduct comprehensive model testing in an environment with diverse modeling methodologies and user interests. This session seeks contributions covering advances in validation studies using metrics relevant to user applications, such as HF communications, Over-the-Horizon Radar, GNSS, and scintillation modeling. Contributions highlighting current coordinated model validation efforts or new methodologies are especially encouraged.
Index Terms:

6929 Ionospheric physics [RADIO SCIENCE]
6934 Ionospheric propagation [RADIO SCIENCE]
6964 Radio wave propagation [RADIO SCIENCE]
7944 Ionospheric effects on radio waves [SPACE WEATHER]

Primary Convener:  David Russel Themens, University of Birmingham, Space Environment and Radio Engineering Group (SERENE), Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Nathaniel A Frissell, The University of Scranton, Physics and Engineering, Scranton, United States, Suzy Bingham, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom and Sean Elvidge, University of Birmingham, SERENE, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Student/Early Career Convener:  Lindsay Victoria Goodwin, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, United States
 
Using Juliusruh Ionosonde f0F2 to Validate TDIM Ionospheric Simulations Driven By a GNSS TEC-Servo (1059351)
Jennie Rebecca Whiteley, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Jan Josef Sojka, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States and David Themens, University of Birmingham, SERENE, Birmingham, United Kingdom
 
Using new lightning-derived vertical total electron content data to calibrate GNSS absolute TEC (1069205)
Erin H Lay1, Jeffery D Tippmann1, Sarah E McDonald2, Anthony J Mannucci3, Xiaoqing Pi4 and Anthea Coster5, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
 
SRF2 - A short-term (1-24) hour foF2 prediction model. (1102956)
Loredana Perrone, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy and Andrei Valerii Mikhailov, Pushkov Institute Terrestrial Magnetism Ionosphere and Radiowaves, Moscow, Russia
 
Global ionospheric maps as an important tool to study large-scale ionospheric dynamics (1115595)
Olga P Verkhoglyadova1, Xing Meng2, Anthony J Mannucci3, Panagiotis Vergados2 and Leo Martire2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Inter-Calibration and Statistical Validation of Topside Ionosphere Electron Density Observations made by CSES-01 Mission (1115911)
Michael Pezzopane1, Alessio Pignalberi2, Igino Coco1, Mirko Piersanti3, Fabio Giannattasio1, Paola De Michelis1, Roberta Tozzi1 and Giuseppe Consolini4, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, (2)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Rome, Italy, (3)University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, (4)INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy
 
Investigation of Precipitation-induced Riometer Absorption During Different D-region Ionosphere Profiles (1121670)
Reihaneh Ghaffari1, Christopher M Cully1, Robert G Gillies1, Emma Spanswick1 and Daniel Robert Marsh2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Validation of Ionosphere Data Assimilation Systems using GNSS Positioning Algorithms (Invited) (1122784)
Nicholas M Pedatella1, Elvira Astafyeva2, Claudia Borries3, Chia-Hung Chen4, Eelco Doornbos5, Sean Elvidge6, Jianhui He7, Timothy Kodikara3, Jiuhou Lei8, Charles C. H. Lin4, Tomoko Matsuo9, Eric K Sutton10 and Xinan Yue11, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (3)German Aerospace Center Neustrelitz, Neustrelitz, Germany, (4)National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, (5)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)University of Birmingham, SERENE, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (7)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université de Paris, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Paris, France, (8)Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of Chin, Hefei, Anhui, China, (9)University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, United States, (11)Salta, Capital, Argentina
 
Assessment of ionospheric and thermospheric models during the geomagnetic storm times in low and moderate solar flux years (Invited) (1125848)
Jack Wang1,2, Min-Yang Chou1,2, Jia Yue1,2, Masha Kuznetsova1, Joseph Huba3, Tzu-Wei Fang4, Dominic J. Fuller-Rowell5, John Michael Retterer6, Sean Bruinsma7 and Hanli Liu8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (3)Syntek Technologies Inc, Fairfax, United States, (4)NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (7)CNES, Toulouse, France, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Development and Validation of an Ionospheric TEC-ServoAlgorithm to Generate Local Vertical Drifts in the Ionosphere (1127158)
Jan Josef Sojka1, Jennie Rebecca Whiteley2, Anthea Coster3 and Nestor Aponte3, (1)Utah State University, Dept. of Physics, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
 
Ionospheric Electron Density Over Resolute Bay According to E-CHAIM Model and RISR Radar Measurements (1129448)
Alexandre V Koustov, University of Saskatchewan, Physics and Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Bion Larson, U of Saskatchewan, Physics and Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, David Themens, University of Birmingham, SERENE, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Robert Gillies, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Validation of Ionospheric Specifications During Geomagnetic Storms: TEC and foF2 during the 2013 March Storm Event-II (1136542)
Ja-Soon Shim, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), In-Sun Song, Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, Ioanna Tsagouri, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, Larisa P Goncharenko, MIT, Pepperell, United States, Joseph M McInerney, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Masha Kuznetsova, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, Mihail Codrescu, SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Mariangel Fedrizzi, NOAA/SWPC - University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Stanley C Solomon, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Francis Vitt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Improving the Topside Ionosphere Electron Density Modelling through Radio Occultation Observations (1161842)
Alessio Pignalberi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Rome, Italy, Michael Pezzopane, INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, Bruno Nava, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Telecommunications/ICT for Development Laboratory, Trieste, Italy, David Themens, University of Birmingham, SERENE, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Pierdavide Coïsson, Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
 
Global Ionospheric Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) map predictions using Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) (1171110)
Yuval Reuveni, Ariel University, Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ariel, Israel and Vlad Landa, Ariel University, Department of Computer Science, Ariel, Israel
 
Validating Ionosphere Model Predictions for OTHR HF Metrics (1174564)
Susan Skone and Emma Spanswick, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Comparing the Effectiveness of ECHAIM and IRI-2016 Using Incoherent Scatter Radar Measurements (1176612)
Jonathan Hurley1, Bharat Kunduri2, Joseph B. H. Baker2, J. Michael Ruohoniemi1 and Phillip Erickson3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States
 
IONO/INSPIRE-SAT 7 Experiment for a Better Understanding of the Variability and Wave Propagation in the Earth’s Ionosphere (1182482)
Patrick H. M. Galopeau1, Mustapha Meftah2, Philippe Keckhut3, Kevin Grossel4, Fabrice Boust5, Mohammed Y. Boudjada6 and Hans Ulrich Eichelberger6, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (3)CNRS, Guyancourt, France, (4)ONERA French Aerospace Lab, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (5)ONERA French Aerospace Lab, Palaiseau, France, (6)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
 
Estimation of 3D electron density distribution over the Indian low latitude region using NavIC data (1191206)
Bhuvnesh Brawar, Student, Discipline of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, Indore, India, Abhirup Datta, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Discipline of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, Indore, India and Sarvesh Mangla, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, Indore, India
See more of: SPA-Aeronomy
<< Previous Session Proposal | Next Session Proposal >>