SM51I:
Understanding the Role of Ionospheric Conductance In the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System I

Session ID#: 2760

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jesper W Gjerloev, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  Jesper W Gjerloev, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Co-conveners:  William A Bristow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Electrical Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Harald U Frey, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jesper W Gjerloev, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Specification of Auroral Ionospheric Conductances Using SSUSI and GUVI UV Imagery (Invited) (4277)
Larry J Paxton1, Yongliang Zhang1, Robert K Schaefer1, Michele Weiss2, Ethan S Miller3 and SSUSI and GUVI Teams, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Electron Precipitation Models in Global Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Simulations (Invited) (3969)
Binzheng Zhang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, William Lotko, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, Oliver Brambles, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and John Lyon, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
The Role of Ionospheric Conductivity in the Response of the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere to Changes in the Earth’s Magnetic Field (Invited) (4597)
Ingrid Cnossen, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Arthur D Richmond, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeremy Ouellette, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States; Vermont Technical College, Department of Computer & Information Systems, Randolph Center, VT, United States
Estimating Ionosphere Conductance on Global Spatial Scales (Invited) (5599)
Colin L Waters, University of Newcastle, Centre for Space Physics, New South Wales, Australia, Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, David L Green, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Haje Korth, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States
Observations of Auroral Ionopheric Response Effects As Seen By the MICA Sounding Rocket (6684)
Kristina A Lynch1, Peter Horak1, Philip A Fernandes2, Matthew D Zettergren3, Donald L Hampton4, Mark Conde4, David L Hysell5, Robert J Miceli6, Steven Powell6, Marc Lessard7, Joran Idar Moen8, Robert Michell9, Marilia Samara9 and Michael J Nicolls10, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (8)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Effects of Dayside Ionospheric Conductivity on the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling: Solar Cycle Dependence of Night-side Field-aligned Currents (12676)
Tomoyuki Higuchi, Inst Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, Shinichi Ohtani, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Ionospheric Conductance During Substorms and Steady Magnetospheric Convection Events (SMCs) (19408)
Anna D DeJong, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, United States, Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Jared Micheal Bell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 675, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Dependencies of Auroral Electron Precipitation Characteristics on Ionospheric Conductivity Conditions and Examples of Measurements of Ionospheric Pederson Conductivity and Wave and Electron Energy Reflectivity from FAST Satellite Data (24866)
John P Dombeck1, Andres Campos2, Cynthia A Cattell2, Nitin Prasad2, Elizabeth (Lily) Hanson3, James P McFadden4 and Robert J Strangeway5, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States