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SAIP2026

6–10 Jul 2026
University of the Western Cape
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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SAIP2026 Conference

Low latitude vertical drift modeling using satellite and ground-based magnetometer datasets

8 Jul 2026, 11:00
30m
Lecture Hall C3 (University of the Western Cape)

Lecture Hall C3

University of the Western Cape
Oral Presentation Track D - Astrophysics & Space Science Astrophysics & Space Science

Speaker

Prof. John Bosco Habarulema (South African National Space Agency)

Description

This talk presents a new empirical vertical E×B drift model developed using ground‐based magnetometer, radar, and satellite data over equatorial latitude regions. The model is constructed by combining global data from the Communications and Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, magnetometer derived vertical drifts estimated using the differential magnetometer approach and radar observations. Validation using Ion Velocity Meter (IVM) drifts from the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite for January to August 2022 shows that the new model improves vertical E × B drift global modeling by over 20% compared to the current climatology representation

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Author

Prof. John Bosco Habarulema (South African National Space Agency)

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