FuQing Huang

FuQing Huang is a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and affiliated with the School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. His work focuses on ionospheric dynamics during geomagnetic storms, particularly equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) and their responses to electric field variations, using satellite and ground-based observations.

• Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment
  • Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology
• Research Interests
  • Storm-time ionospheric irregularities
  • Equatorial Spread F and Rayleigh-Taylor instability
  • Role of prompt penetration and disturbance dynamo electric fields
  • Daytime and nighttime plasma bubble generation mechanisms
  • Magnetic latitude dependencies of EPB occurrences
• Key Contributions
  • Analysis of EPB enhancement/suppression during the October 2016 geomagnetic storm
  • Multi-instrument study combining Beidou GEO, Swarm satellite, and ionosonde data
  • Investigation of sunrise EPBs triggered during storm main phase (unusual compared to recovery phase events)
  • Observational evidence linking h’F variations to storm-induced electric field changes
• Grants
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (42004136)
  • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020T130628, 2019M662170)
  • Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2080000130)
• Collaborations
  • ESA Swarm satellite data analysis
  • Chinese Meridian Project infrastructure
  • International data networks (OMNIWeb, NASA CDDIS)