Melessew Nigussie

FULL NAME: Melessew Nigussie

ACADEMIC RANK: Associate Professor

ANY ADMINISTRATIVE OR ACADEMIC POSITION: Space physics program and department graduate program coordinator

OFFICE ADDRESS (Dept.  and BLDG/Office No.): Washera Geospace and Radar science research laboratory, Physics department,

OFFICE PHONE NUMBER: +251913835449

E-MAIL ADDRESS: melessewnigussie@yahoo.com, melessewn@bdu.edu.et

 

EDUCATION

Degree

Year of Award

Awarding Institution

 Ph.D. Space Physics

2014

Bahir Dar University

M. Sc

2008

Bahir Dar University

B. Sc

2004

Bahir Dar University

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

Investigating the mystery of  the African ionospheric irregularity, M. N. Gereme (PI), B.   Damtie (Co-PI). Air Force Office of Scientific Research, European Office of Research and Development (AFOSR-EOARD) , grant number FAS9550-16-1-0070, 01 Dec. 2015-30 Nov. 2017.

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Space physics, radar science, signal processing, computational physics, electrodynamics and so on.

 

PUBLICATIONS

       Articles

1.  Bires, A., L. Roininen, B. Damtie, M. Nigussie, Study of TEC Fluctuation via Stochastic Models and Bayesian Inversion, Radio Sci., under review

2. Tebabal, A., B. Damtie, M. Nigussie, Temporal variations of solar irradiance since 1947, Solar Physics, Under review

3. Tesema, F., R. Mesquita, J. Meriwether, B. Damtie, M. Nigussie, J. Makela, D. Fisher, B.          Harding, E. Yizengaw, S. Sanders, New Results on Equatorial Thermospheric Winds and         Temperature from Ethiopia, Africa, Ann. Geophy. Under review.

4. Nigussie, M., S. Radicella, B. Damtie, E. Yizengaw, B. Nava, L. Roininen,  (2016), Validation             of NeQuick TEC data ingestion technique against C/NOFS and EISCAT electron density        measurements, Radio Sci., 51,  7, 905–917 DOI: 10.1002/2015RS005930

5. Beshire, E., M. Nigussie (2016), Investigating the effect of geomagnetic storm and equatorial electrojet on equatorial ionospheric irregularity over East African sector, Adv. Space Res. (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2016.06.037

6. Tesema, F., B. Damtie, M. Nigussie, (2015), The response of the  ionosphere to intense geomagnetic storms in 2012 using GPS-TEC data from East Africa longitudinal sector, J. Atmos. Sol-Terr. Phys.135, 143–151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2015.10.021

7. Tebabal, A., B. Damtie, M. Nigussie, A. Biress, E. Yizengaw, (2015), Modeling total solar irradiance from PMOD composite using feed-forward neural networks, J. Atmos. Sol-Terr. Phys., 135, 64-71, DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2015.10.007

8. Asmare, Y., T. Kassa, M. Nigussie, (2014), Validation of IRI-2012 TEC model over Ethiopia during solar minimum (2009) and solar maximum (2013) phases, Adv. Space Res., 53, 11, 1582-1594, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2014.02.017

9. Nigussie, M., S. Radicella, B. Damtie, B. Nava, E. Yizengaw, K. Groves, (2013) Validation of the NeQuick 2 and IRI-2007 models in East-African equatorial region, J. Atmos. Sol-Terr. Phys., 102, 26–33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2013.04.016

10. Nigussie, M., S. Radicella, B. Damtie, B. Nava, E. Yizengaw, L. Ciraolo, (2012) TEC ingestion into NeQuick 2 to model the East African equatorial ionosphere, Radio Sci., 47,5,  DOI: 10.1029/2012RS004981

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Tebabal, A., B. Damtie, M. Nigussie (2016), Temporal solar irradiance variability analysis using neural networks, Solar and Stellar Flares and their Effects on Planets Proceedings IAU Symposium 320, doi:10.1017/S1743921316000296

Book Chapters

1. M. Nigussie, B. Damtie, E. Yizengaw, S. M. Radicella, (2016), Modeling the East African ionosphere, AGU Book chapter, in press.

Invited Talks

1) Nigussie, M., S. Radicella, B. Damtie, E. Yizengaw, B. Nava, L. Roininen (2015), Verification of ionospheric electron density estimation technique using C/NOFS satellite and EISCAT data; Invited talk at the 1st URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference, Canary Island, Spain,  18-22 May 2015.

2) Damtie, B., M. Nigussie, S. M. Radicella, B. Nava, E. Yizengaw, Electrodynamics and             temporal characteristics of the East-African ionosphere inferred from ground-based observations; Invited talk at AGU Fall meeting, San Fransisco, USA, December 2010.

Contributed Presentations

1) Nigussie, M., B. Damtie, E. Yizngaw, F. Tesema, A. Tebabal, (2016), Investigating the             characteristics of the wavelike oscillations from fluctuating TEC obtained from SCINDA GPS receiver installed at Bar Dar (Ethiopia), presented (poster) at VERSIM and Radiation Belt symposium, Hermanus, South Africa, 19-24 September 2016.

2) Nigussie, M, B. Damtie, R. G. Caton, R. T. Parris, K. M. Groves, E. Yizngaw, F. Tesesma, A. Bires,A. Tebabal, (2015) A study of the African equatorial ionospheric irregularity using Coherent Backscatter Radar, C/NOFS satellite, and GPS data, presented (oral) at 14th International Symposium on Equatorial Earonomy,  Bahir Dar Ethiopia, 19-23 October 2015.

3) Nigussie, M., B. Damtie, E. Yizengaw, S. M. Radicella, (2013), Three dimensional non-tomographic imaging of the East-African ionosphere using GPS TEC, presented (oral) at 19th Inverse Days 2013 with a Special emphasis on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, Inari, Finland, 11-13 December 2013.

4) Nigussie, M. S. M. Radicella, B. Damtie, B. Nava, E. Yizengaw, (2012)

       Validation of IRI-2007 and NeQuick 2 and TEC ingestion into NeQuick 2 to model East-Africa equatorial ionosphere, presented (oral) at AGU Chapman Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 12-16 November 2012.

5) Nigussie, M. S. M. Radicella, B. Damtie, B. Nava, E. Yizengaw, (2012), Mapping the East-African equatorial ionosphere by interpolating GPS data using Universal Kriging , presented (poster) at AGU Chapman Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 12-16 November 2012.

6) Nigussie, M., B. Damtie, E. Yizengaw, A. Mebrahtu, Tempoeral characterstics of daytime equatorial electrojet at Ethiopia longitudinal sector inferred from AMBER and                   INTERMAGNET data, presented (poster) at IHY-Africa/Scinda 2009 workshop,                                                  Livingstone, Zambia, 7-12, June 2009.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

  • Charactering the Earth's ionosphere using both space and ground-based data and models
  • Modeling physical processes that are happening in the Earth's ionosphere
  • Application of Global Positioning System

 

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

 

  • Matlab programming skill: excellent
  • R programming skill: excellent
  • Fortran programming skill: good    

Scientific Review

  • Reviewing scientific papers for American Geophysical Union (AGU) journals such as Radio Science, Journal of Geophysical  Research (JGR), and AGU Book Chapter.
  • Reviewing Scientific pares for Ethiopian Journal of Science and Technology

Reviewing Research Grant Proposal submitted to National Research Foundation (NRF)

 

References

 

  •  Endawoke Yizengaw (PhD)- PhD thesis supervisor, Institute of Scientific Research, Boston College, USA, Email: kassie@bc.edu
  • Baylie Damtie (PhD)-PhD thesis supervisor, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, bayledamtrie@yahoo.com
  • Sandr Radicella (Prof.)-PhD thesis supervisor, The International center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),Trieste, Italy, rsandro@ictp.it

Norbert Jakowski (PhD)-Doctoral Evaluation Committee, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Germany, Norbert.Jakowski@dlr.de