SA22A:
The Dynamic Polar Cap I

Session ID#: 2082

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jeffrey M Holmes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States and Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Convener:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Yanshi Huang, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Gary S Bust, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and Jeffrey M Holmes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yanshi Huang, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2437 Ionospheric dynamics [IONOSPHERE]
2475 Polar cap ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7954 Magnetic storms [SPACE WEATHER]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Creation of polar cap patches (Invited) (3401)
Keisuke Hosokawa, University of Electro-Communications, Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, Chofu, Japan, Satoshi Taguchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Yasunobu Ogawa, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
ICI-III sounding rocket investigation of a Reversed flow event seen by the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (Invited) (4935)
Yvonne Dåbakk, University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Joran Idar Moen, University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, Herbert C Carlson, Utah State University, CASS, Logan, UT, United States, Yoshifumi Saito, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan and Takumi Abe, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan
The field-aligned-current system of a sun-aligned arc over Resolute Bay (29735)
Gareth William Perry, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, Hanna Dahlgren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Michael J Nicolls, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Matthew D Zettergren, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Jean-Pierre St-Maurice, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Joshua L Semeter, Boston Univ, Boston, United States, Keisuke Hosokawa, University of Electro-Communications, Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, Chofu, Japan and Kazuo Shiokawa, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Predicting Thermospheric Density at High Latitude during Magnetic Storms using Coupled Global Geospace Simulations (Invited) (3968)
Binzheng Zhang1, Michael James Wiltberger2, Oliver Brambles3, William Lotko4 and John Lyon3, (1)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
Assessing Locations of Energy Transfer/Deposit in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System (19939)
Jiannan Tu, Space Science Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, United States and Paul Song, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Space Science Laboratory and Physics Department, Lowell, MA, United States
From Correlations to Causes: Transient Energy Injection into the Polar Thermosphere (10553)
Herbert C Carlson1, Anasuya L Aruliah2, Asmund Skjaeveland3 and Joran Idar Moen3, (1)Utah State University, CASS, Logan, UT, United States, (2)University College London, Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway
High-latitude Poynting flux measured by DMSP satellites during magnetic storms (13000)
Yanshi Huang1, Cheryl Y Huang2 and Yi-Jiun Su2, (1)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Day-night coupling by a localized flow channel visualized by polar cap patch propagation (Invited) (3316)
Yukitoshi Nishimura, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Larry R Lyons, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Ying Zou, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Boyi Wang, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kjellmar Oksavik, University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, Joran Idar Moen, University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, Lasse Boy Novock Clausen, University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway, Eric Donovan, University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Kazuo Shiokawa, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, J Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, Nozomu Nishitani, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Kathryn A McWilliams, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Mark Lester, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Solar Wind Effect on Joule Heating in the High-Latitude Ionosphere (22413)
Lei Cai1, Anita Taina Aikio1 and Tuomo J Nygren2, (1)University of Oulu, Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit, Oulu, Finland, (2)University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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