Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Dibyendu Sur

(Research Scientist)

Dibyendu Sur's Contact Card & Information.
Email: dibyendu.sur@nasa.gov
Org Code: 673
Address:
NASA/GSFC
 Mail Code 673
 Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA

Brief Bio

Dibyendu Sur is a Research Scientist in the Geospace Physics Laboratory in the Heliophysics Division since August 2023. Dibyendu Sur also worked as Postdoctoral Associate in Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder. Dibyendu Sur obtained Ph.D. degree from University of Calcutta in 2021.

Dibyendu Sur is an expert in Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling. Dibyendu Sur has experience in ionospheric and magnetospheric modeling including the Whole Atmosphere Model Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) and Comprehensive Inner-Magnetosphere Ionosphere (CIMI). Dibyendu Sur is also a member of COSPAR International Space Weather Action Team (ISWAT) and Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) External Scientist Working Group.

Research Interests

Venus magnetosphere

Solar System: Venus

Earth and other planetary space weather (magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere) and their interactions with Solar wind

Heliophysics: Space Weather

Current Projects

The Magnetosphere-Aurora Reconnection Boundary Layer Explorer (MARBLE)

Earth's Magnetosphere

Comprehensive Inner-Magnetosphere Ionosphere (CIMI)

Earth's Magnetosphere

Habitable World Observatory (HWO) Working Group

Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) International Space Weather Action Team (ISWAT)

ISWAT Group: Heliophysics for Artemis (Moon) and Beyond

Moons

Positions/Employment

Research Associate

The Catholic University of America - Washington DC

July 2023 - Present

Postdoctoral Associate

CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, US

June 2021 - July 2023

Research Scholar

Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta - Kolkata, India

April 2010 - January 2021

Assistant Professor

Narula Institute of Technology - Kolkata, India

February 2015 - Present

Assistant Professor

Guru Nanak Institute of Technology - Kolkata, India

December 2008 - February 2015

Teaching Experience

Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India 2015-2021

Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India 2008-2015

Professional Societies

COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams

Member

2019 - Present

NASA Drive Center Community for the Unified Study of Interhemispheric Asymmetries (CUSIA)

Member

2020 - 2022

NASA Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) mission

Member, External Scientist Working Group

2023

Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties (SWQU), NSF project

Postdoctoral Student in University of Colorado Boulder

2021 - 2023

Awards

Dibyendu Sur is awarded with Best Poster Title Award in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 15th Sciences and Exploration Directorate New Year Poster Party on January 23, 2024.


Dibyendu Sur served as NASA ROSES Panel reviewer.


Dibyendu Sur served as NSF Panel reviewer in 2024.


Dibyendu Sur is awarded as Young Scientist in BSS 2019, Olsztyn, Poland, August 19-23, 2019.


Dibyendu Sur is selected as Young Scientist in ISSI, Bern, Switzerland in 2018.


Dibyendu Sur received EURO 700 as COSPAR Travel Grant in 2018 at Pasadena, Los Angeles, US.


Dibyendu Sur was selected as one of the participant in Workshop on Space Weather at the ICTP in Trieste from 23 April 2018 to 4 May 2018. Dibyendu Sur received grant of 695 Euro in this workshop.


Dibyendu Sur was selected as student in International Reference Ionosphere 2017 Workshop, National Central University, Taiwan, 6-17 November, 2017 and received COSPAR Travel grant.

 

Dibyendu Sur received USD 1000 as AGU General Travel Grant in 2017 at New Orleans, US.

 

Dibyendu Sur has received Young Scientist Award at URSI RCRS 2015 at New Delhi in 2015.


Dibyendu Sur received the first prize in National Space Science Symposium at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati in 2012.


Special Experience

Certification of NASA Open Science, Issued by NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS)

Selected Publications

Refereed

2025. "Intercomparison of Model Determinations of Auroral Electrodynamic Parameters." Space Weather 23 (3): [https://doi.org/10.1029/2024SW004023] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Earth’s Geomagnetic Environment—Progress and Gaps in Understanding, Prediction, and Impacts." Advances in Space Research [10.1016/j.asr.2024.05.016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "CME Propagation Through the Heliosphere: Status and Future of Observations and Model Development." Advances in Space Research [10.1016/j.asr.2023.07.003] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Dependence of the global dayside reconnection rate on interplanetary magnetic field By and the earth’s dipole tilt." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9 [10.3389/fspas.2022.973276] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Investigation of the negative ionospheric response of the 8 September 2017 geomagnetic storm over the European sector." Advances in Space Research 70 (4): 1104-1120 [10.1016/j.asr.2022.05.035] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "High and mid latitude and near subsolar point ionospheric and thermospheric responses to the solar flares and geomagnetic storms during low solar activity periods of 2017 and 2020." Advances in Space Research 70 (1): 157-178 [10.1016/j.asr.2022.04.024] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science." Earth and Space Science 9 (6): [10.1029/2021ea002141] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Atmospheric Sciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science." Earth and Space Science 9 (2): [10.1029/2021ea002204] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "The Magnitude of IMF By Influences the Magnetotail Response to Solar Wind Forcing." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (11): [10.1029/2021ja029752] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Impact of CME and HSSW driven geomagnetic storms on thermosphere and ionosphere as observed from mid-latitudes." Advances in Space Research 68 (3): 1441-1460 [10.1016/j.asr.2021.03.027] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Multi-wavelength coordinated observations of ionospheric irregularity structures from an anomaly crest location during unusual solar minimum of the 24th cycle." Advances in Space Research 65 (5): 1402-1413 [10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.035] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Effects of CME and CIR induced geomagnetic storms on low-latitude ionization over Indian longitudes in terms of neutral dynamics." Advances in Space Research 65 (1): 198-213 [10.1016/j.asr.2019.09.047] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Response of data‐driven artificial neural network‐based TEC models to neutral wind for different locations, seasons, and solar activity levels from the Indian longitude sector." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 122 (7): 7713-7733 [10.1002/2016ja023678] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Role of neutral wind in the performance of artificial neural‐network based TEC models at diverse longitudes in the low latitudes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 120 (3): 2316-2332 [10.1002/2014ja020594] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Comparison of standard TEC models with a Neural Network based TEC model using multistation GPS TEC around the northern crest of Equatorial Ionization Anomaly in the Indian longitude sector during the low and moderate solar activity levels of the 24th solar cycle." Advances in Space Research 52 (5): 810-820 [10.1016/j.asr.2013.05.020] [Journal Article/Letter]

Talks, Presentations and Posters

Invited

Design and performance evaluation of ionospheric and magnetospheric models

December 6, 2022

Orion Space Solution Seminar, Louisville, Colorado

Space Weather Modeling and Correlations between IMF By and Isotropic Boundary Latitude

December 5, 2022

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), University of California Los Angeles Group Meeting

Performance evaluation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) model in the Equatorial region

November 10, 2022

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) Seminar

Design and Performance Validation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based Total Electron Content (TEC) Models for Low-latitude Regions of Earth's Ionosphere

October 18, 2022

National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) Space Science Seminars, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA

Leveraging distributed network of GNSS TEC measurements from India to develop ANN based TEC models

December 7, 2018

Heliophysics Science Division Weekly Seminar, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Other

Extraction of kinetic scale structures from Venus Magnetosphere using Parker Solar Probe data flyby

November 18, 2024

22nd meeting of Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG), Louisville, Kentucky

Performance Evaluation of CIMI during May 10-11 2024 Geomagnetic Storm

October 28, 2024

May 2024 Superstorm Workshop, JHU-APL

Performance of CIMI precipitation fluxes during geomagnetically disturbed periods

October 23, 2024

Early Career Scientist Forum (ECSF 2024), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Performance of CIMI after inclusion of multiple reflection and under varying ionospheric conductances

October 7, 2024

Heliophysics Science & Engineering Summit, JHU-APL

Performance Assessment of CIMI Electron Precipitation During Geomagnetic Storm

April 16, 2024

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Magnetospheric and ionospheric model performance evaluation towards predictions of different auroral parameters during geomagnetic disturbed periods

December 13, 2023

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023

Detection of Phase-Space Holes and Double Layers at induced magnetosphere of Venus using high resolution burst mode Parker Solar Probe Data during its 4th Gravity Assist in 2021 and comparisons with Earth's intrinsic magnetosphere

December 12, 2023

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023

MARBLE: How to make an open science global magnetosphere code?

October 10, 2023

Data, Analysis and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) 2023 Conference, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD

Simulation of the ionospheric response to the March 2015 storm and the physical processes

September 13, 2023

NASA FST Extreme Team Meeting

Inspection of possible presence of Double Layers and Phase-Space Holes at Venus Magnetosphere using Parker Solar Probe

August 7, 2023

SHINE 2023, Stowe, Vermont, US

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