Tuesday Oral Presentations I

Tuesday, September 29, 2015: 8:40 AM-1:30 PM
Primary Convener:  Qiu-Gang Zong, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
8:40 AM
The Many Facets of Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause (38113)
Paul Cassak1, Colin M Komar1,2, Christopher Doss1, Raymond Luis Fermo3, Frederick D Wilder4, Stefan Eriksson4 and James Frederick Drake5, (1)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
9:10 AM
Structure of the Diffusion Region During Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (38211)
Li-Jen Chen1, Michael Hesse1, Roy B Torbert2, Matthew R Argall2, Naoki Bessho1 and William S Daughton3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
9:40 AM
Role of Ionosphere in Substorm Dynamics (38175)
Joachim Raeder, Banafsheh Ferdousi, Joseph B Jensen and William D Cramer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
10:10 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Investigation of Storm-Time Magnetotail and Ion Injection Using 3-D Global Hybrid Simulation (38124)
Yu Lin1, San Lu2, Quanming Lu3, Joseph D Perez1, Xueyi Wang4, Simon Wing5 and Jay Johnson6, (1)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (3)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (4)Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:00 AM
Study of Energy Conversion and Partitioning in the Magnetic Reconnection Layer of Laboratory Plasma (38172)
Masaaki Yamada, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:30 AM
Integration of Kinetic Effects in Multi-Fluid Models of Reconnection: Towards Next-Generation Global Simulations (38254)
Amitava Bhattacharjee1, Ammar Hakim1, Liang Wang2 and Kai Germaschewski2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
12:00 PM
Three-dimensional kinetic picture of bursty reconnection in the magnetotail (38079)
Mikhail I. Sitnov, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States and Mark Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
12:30 PM
Observations of the relationship between ionospheric central polar cap and dayside throat convection velocities, and solar wind/IMF driving (38161)
William Bristow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
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