| name |
email |
phone |
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| Sarah Elizabeth McDonald |
sarah.e.mcdonald14.civ@us.navy.mil |
202.404.8555 |
| Kate Zawdie |
katherine.a.zawdie.civ@us.navy.mil |
202 404 8552 |
The Geospace Science and Technology Branch has research opportunities in ionospheric modeling including physics-based, empirical and data assimilation approaches. Research interests include the specification and forecasting of global and mesoscale phenonema, such as the effect of global thermospheric tides on the ionosphere, disturbed high-latitude conditions, and smaller scale disturbances like Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs).
Zawdie, K. A., J. D. Huba, M. S. Dhadly and K. Papadopoulos (2019), The Effect of Plasma Releases on Equatorial Spread F – a Simulation Study. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 6.4. doi:10.3389/fspas.2019.00004
McDonald, S., Sassi, F., Tate, J., McCormack, J., Kuhl, D., Drob, D., et al. Impact of non-migrating tides on the low lati- tude ionosphere during a sudden stratospheric warming event in January 2010. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2018;171:188–200. doi:10.1016/J.JASTP.2017.09.012.
Ionosphere; First-principles modeling; Data assimilation; empirical modeling; high-latitudes; global; mesoscale
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