G3  Space Weather Events and Assimilative Models

Friday, January 10  15:20-17:40  Room 200

Session Chairs:  Anthea Coster, Atilla Komjathy

15:20  G3-1  HEIGHT DEPENDENCE OF EQUATORIAL ZONAL PLASMA DRIFTS

Debrup Hui*, Bela G. Fejer

Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT


15:40  G3-2  AN EXAMINATION OF THE SOURCE OF DECAMETER-SCALE IRREGULARITIES IN THE GEOMAGNETICALLY DISTURBED MID-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE

Evan G. Thomas*1, Joseph B. H. Baker1, J. Michael Ruohoniemi1, Keisuke Hosokawa2, Philip J. Erickson3, Anthea J. Coster3, John C. Foster3

1Bradley Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2Department of Communication and Engineering Informatics, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, JAPAN
3Atmospheric Sciences Group, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA


16:00  G3-3  NONLINEAR MODE CONVERSION OF VLF WAVES OVER ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO

Kangping Hu*1, Min-Chang Lee2

1Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
2Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA


16:20  G3-4  A 3-D STOCHASTIC FDTD MODEL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN MAGNETIZED IONOSPHERE PLASMA

Bach T. Nguyen*, Jamesina J. Simpson

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT


16:40  G3-5  ASSIMILATIVE MODEL BIAS CORRECTION SCHEMES FOR GLOBAL IONOSPHERIC MODELING

Yang-Yi Sun*1, Tomoko Matsuo1, Naomi Maruyama1, Jann-Yenq Liu2

1CIRES-CU, NOAA-SWPC, Boulder
2Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Jhongli, TAIWAN


17:20  G3-6  ADVANCES IN DETECTION OF NATURAL-HAZARD GENERATED TEC PERTURBATIONS

Attila Komjathy*1, Oscar Yang1, Richard Langley2

1JPL, Pasadena
2University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, CANADA