SM53A:
Dawn-Dusk Asymmetries in Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Systems II

Session ID#: 1751

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2018 (Moscone West)
Primary Convener:  Stein Haaland, Max-Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany; Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
Co-Convener:  Colin Forsyth, University College London, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Dawn-Dusk Asymmetries in Geospace (Invited) (5061)
Andrew P Walsh, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva de la Canada, Spain, Stein Haaland, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Colin Forsyth, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, Jennifer Kissinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, MD, United States, Kun Li, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jan Soucek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, Brian Walsh, Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Matthew G Taylor, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
A Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Perspective of Magnetopause Reconnection and Dawn-Dusk Density Gradients (Invited) (3198)
Brian Walsh, Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, John C Foster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States
Spatial Structure and Asymmetries of Magnetospheric Currents Inferred from High-Resolution Empirical Geomagnetic Field Models (Invited) (3259)
Mikhail I Sitnov1, Grant Killian Stephens2, Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy3, Pontus C Brandt2, Haje Korth2 and Brian J Anderson3, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States
MLT Asymmetries in the Magnetospheric Wave Distribution and Their Effect on Ionospheric Conductivity and Global Transport (Invited) (4037)
Richard M Thorne, UCLA, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Wen Li, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States, Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Binbin Ni, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Vania K Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States, William S Kurth, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States and Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Coupled Magnetotail-Ionosphere Asymmetries from Ionospheric Hall Conduction (8962)
William Lotko1,2, Ryan H Smith3, Binzheng Zhang4, Jeremy Ouellette5,6, Oliver Brambles7, John Lyon7 and Michael James Wiltberger8, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, United States, (4)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, (5)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Vermont Technical College, Department of Computer & Information Systems, Randolph Center, VT, United States, (7)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Themis Measurements of Quasi-static Electric Fields in the Inner Magnetosphere (13811)
Sam Califf, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Xinlin Li, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Lauren W Blum, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Allison N Jaynes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Quintin A Schiller, University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, Hong Zhao, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, United States, David Malaspina, University of Colorado Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States, Michael Hartinger, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, Richard Wolf, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, Douglas E Rowland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John R Wygant, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and John W Bonnell, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Assessment of possible mechanisms responsible for dawn-dusk asymmetry of the magnetopause (21401)
Lukas Maes1, Johan De Keyser1, Stein Haaland2, Romain Maggiolo1 and Marius Echim1,3, (1)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Investigation of solar wind dependence of the plasma sheet based on long-term Geotail/LEP data evaluation (19922)
Ryosuke Saeki1, Kanako Seki2, Yoshifumi Saito3, Iku Shinohara4, Yukinaga Miyashita1, Shinsuke Imada5 and Shinobu Machida6, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (4)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan, (6)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan