2023 Meetings (AGU/EGU/AOGS)

2023 conference presentations (partial)

AGU 2023 (San Francisco Dec 10-15 2023)

• SA34A-02Frequent detection of discernable penetration electric field effects on the ionosphere during intense to minor solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances

Shunrong Zhang1, Toshi Nishimura2, Juha Vierinen3, Larry R Lyons4, Delores J Knipp5, Philip John Erickson6, Anthea Coster1 and Ercha Aa1, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (3)The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Physics and Technology, Tromsø, Norway, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States

• IN33C-0739Deep Learning Models for Missing Data in Ionospheric Observations

Mingwu Jin1, Yang Pan1, Shunrong Zhang2 and Yue Deng3, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (3)University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States

• NG13B-0627Ionospheric Electron Density Time Series Prediction Using Deep Learning Models

Yang Pan1, Mingwu Jin2, Shunrong Zhang3 and Yue Deng2, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States

• SA13A-05SuperDARN Observations of electrified MSTIDs during geomagnetic storms

Bharat Kunduri1, Ian Kelley2, Joseph B. H. Baker1, J. Michael Ruohoniemi2, Simon G Shepherd3and Shunrong Zhang4, (1)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States

• SA14A-04Mid-latitude Ionospheric Response during the October 14, 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse

Anthea Coster1, Shunrong Zhang1, Larisa P Goncharenko2, Philip John Erickson3, Ercha Aa1, Nestor Aponte1, Anika Huang4 and Oliver Trevor4, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)MIT, Pepperell, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

• SA23B-2716Ionospheric Disturbances generated by Volcanic Eruptions: Comparison of GITM-R simulations with GNSS observations

Justin Tyska, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States and Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States

• SA23C-2737Association of Equatorward Extended Auroral Streamers with Overshielding Conditions at Equatorial Latitudes: First Observations

Sneha Yadav1, Larry R Lyons1, Toshi Nishimura2, James M Weygand3, Jiang Liu4, Shunrong Zhang5, Sheng Tian6, Ying Zou7 and Eric Donovan8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (3)UCLA EPSS, Los Angeles, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (8)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

• SA33C-2905Modeling the influences of changes in Earth’s magnetic field and greenhouse gas concentrations on the climatology of Earth’s upper atmosphere

Chih Ting Hsu1, Anastasia Newheart2, Ercha Aa3, Wenbin Wang1, Shunrong Zhang3, Joseph M McInerney1,4, Liying Qian1 and Dong Lin2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, United States

• SA44A-07Thermospheric Vertical Winds in Subauroral Latitudes

John W Meriwether1, Andrew J Gerrard1, Matthew B Cooper2, Anneliese Schmidt3, Anthea Coster4, Shunrong Zhang4, Ying Ye5 and Robert Kerr6, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, (3)New Jersey Institute of technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, (4)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, (6)Computational Physics Inc., Lowell, Lowell, United States

• SA51A-05Understanding the Midlatitude Bubble-Like Ionospheric Super-depletion Structure (BLISS)

Ercha Aa1, Shunrong Zhang1, Shasha Zou2, Wenbin Wang3, Philip John Erickson4, Zihan Wang2and Anthea Coster1, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (4)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States

• SA51B-2499A Statistical Analysis of the Morphology of Storm-Enhanced Density Plumes

Patricia Dzwill1,2, Ercha Aa3 and Shunrong Zhang3, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Edison, NJ, United States, (2)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States

• SA51B-2512Observations of the Impact of an M-Class Solar Flare on the Global I-T System

Andrew W Stephan, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Scott England, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Robert Meier, George Mason University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, United States and Thomas J Immel, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

SM21B-2747Analysis of Total Electron Content and Scintillation observed in High-Latitudes during Solar Cycle 25 Geomagnetic Storms

Anthea Coster1, Nestor Aponte1, Shunrong Zhang1, Ercha Aa1, Donald L Hampton2, Susan Skone3, Emma Spanswick3, P. T. Jayachandran4, Luca Spogli5 and Vincenzo Romano6, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)University of New Brunswick, Physics Department, Fredericton, Canada, (5)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (6)SpacEarth Technology, Rome, Italy

• SM22A-03Association of Equatorward Extending Auroral Streamers with Ground Magnetic Perturbations from Auroral to Equatorial Latitudes

Sneha Yadav1, Larry R Lyons1, Toshi Nishimura2, Jiang Liu3, James M Weygand4, Shunrong Zhang5, Sheng Tian6, Ying Zou7 and Eric Donovan8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)UCLA EPSS, Los Angeles, United States, (5)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (8)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

AGU session

SA44A – Middle-Latitude and Subauroral Aeronomy I Oral

Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States and Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States

SA51B – Middle-Latitude and Subauroral Aeronomy II Poster

Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States, Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States

EGU April 2023 (Vienna)

• Zhang, S.-R., Aa, E., Vierinen, J., Erickson, P., Goncharenko, L., Coster, A., Wang, W., and Qian, L.: Atmosphere-ionosphere coupling following the Tonga eruption: global multi-scale ionospheric effects, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-2886, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2886, 2023 (invited)
• Zhang, S.-R., Wang, W., Aa, E., Erickson, P., Qian, L., and Goncharenko, L.: Monitoring and understanding upper atmospheric long-term cooling, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10155, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10155, 2023. (invited)
• Aa, E., Zhang, S.-R., Erickson, P., Coster, A., and Goncharenko, L.: Understanding storm-time multi-scale ionospheric structures at mid-latitudes, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-2899, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2899, 2023. (invited)
•  Cai, Y., Yue, X., Wang, W., Zhang, S., Liu, H., Lin, D., Wu, H., Yue, J., Bruinsma, S. L., Ding, F., Ren, Z., and Liu, L.: Altitude extension of NCAR-TIEGCM (TIEGCM‑X) and evaluation, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-12894, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12894, 2023

​CEDAR June 2023 (San Diego)

• Shun-Rong Zhang, Phil Erickson，Anthea Coster，Larisa Goncharenko，Ryan Volz，John Swoboda，Ercha, Ground-based Upper atmospheric observations during Solar Eclipses in Oct 2023 and Apr 2024 
• Shun-Rong Zhang, Ercha Aa, Yongliang Zhang, Wenbin Wang. Liying Qian, and Larisa Goncharenko, GUVI O/N2 Climatology and long-term trends (preliminary results)
• Shun-Rong Zhang, TIDs Associated With the Tonga Eruption: Some Unpublished Results 
• Shun-Rong Zhang, Phil Erickson, Anthea Coster, Ercha Aa, Bill Rideout, Larisa Goncharenkom Juha Vierinen, Toshi Nishimura, Yue Deng, Karry Lyons, Evan Thomas, Traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) and geospace-atmosphere multi-scale coupling processes (science highlight)
• Sessions convened or co-convened:
  • Middle and subauroral latitude aeronomy: https://cedarscience.org/workshop/2023-workshop-midlatitude-aeronomy
  • Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai: Reflections on Efforts, Findings, and Challenges 1.5 Years Later Since the Eruption: https://cedarscience.org/workshop/2023-workshop-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-reflections-efforts-findings-and-challenges-15
  • Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Driven from Above and from Below: https://cedarscience.org/workshop/2023-workshop-traveling-ionospheric-disturbances

AOGS August 2023 (Singapore)

• Shun-Rong Zhang, Phil Erickson, Anthea Coster, and Ercha Aa, Post-sunrise traveling ionospheric disturbance observations using Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar and GNSS receiver networks (invited)
• Shun-Rong Zhang, Phil Erickson, and Erch Aa, Ionospheric dynamical responses to the 2003-11-20 superstorm observed by Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar

103rd AMS (Denver)

• 20SPACEWX Observing Ionospheric and Thermospheric Responses at Local to Continental Scales during the 2024 Solar Eclipse (INVITED)
  Shunrong Zhang, MIT, Westford, MA; and P. J. Erickson, L. Goncharenko, A. J. Coster, E. Aa, R. Volz, and J. Swoboda
• 20SPACEWX Local, Regional, and Global Ionospheric Disturbances Following the Tonga Volcanic Eruption (INVITED)
  Ercha Aa, MIT, Westford, MA; and S. Zhang, L. P. Goncharenko, P. J. Erickson, and A. J. Coster
• 20SPACEWX Connections Between Hotspots in Stratospheric Gravity Waves and Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances
  Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA; and L. Harvey, C. Cullens, E. Becker, G. Kwon, S. Zhang, and A. J. Coster