Summary
This project is funded through the NSF Translation to Practice (TTP) program, which supports efforts to turn research discoveries into practical tools that benefit communities, industry, and society. Solar storms can knock out the radio communications that aircraft, ships, and emergency responders depend on — sometimes for hours at a time, with serious safety and economic consequences. A key reason these outages are difficult to predict and manage is that a particular layer of the atmosphere that lies at the edge of space, called the D-region, remains largely unmeasured and poorly understood.
