CEDAR email: AGU Fall Session: Understanding and Forecasting Equatorial Spread F and Scintillation

[HUANG, CHAOSONG DR-03 USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXP]

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to the AGU session on Equatorial Spread F. The abstract submission deadline is Aug 6, 2014.

Thanks.

Chaosong Huang, Cesar Valladares, Vince Eccles

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Session Title: Understanding and Forecasting Equatorial Spread F and Scintillation

Session ID: 1800

Session Description: 
Large-scale plasma bubbles and associated equatorial spread F (ESF) structures are the most significant disturbances in the nighttime low-latitude ionosphere and cause radio scintillation. A number of outstanding scientific problems related to ESF have not been well understood. The prediction capability of ESF occurrence and scintillation has not been established. This session focuses on how the equatorial ionosphere responds to magnetic storms, penetration electric fields, magnetospheric energy input, and atmospheric disturbances; what controls the generation and evolution of equatorial plasma bubbles and ESF irregularities; how significantly seeding perturbations affect the generation of plasma bubbles; how the occurrence of equatorial spread F depends on longitude, season, and solar activity; and how ionospheric scintillation is correlated with spread F irregularities. We welcome observational and simulation studies that address these topics and that aim to improve the current capability of forecasting plasma bubbles, spread F irregularities, and scintillation activities.

Conveners:  
Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Cesar E Valladares, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
J Vincent Eccles, Space Environment Corporation, Providence, UT, United States

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