SM14B:
Plasma Sheet Instabilities and Magnetotail Origins of Auroral Structures II

Session ID#: 2837

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Engineering and Applied Physics, Hefei, China; Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States and Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Convener:  Ping Zhu, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States; University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Engineering and Applied Physics, Hefei, China
Co-Convener:  Joachim Raeder, Space Science Ctr, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Index Terms:

2704 Auroral phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2752 MHD waves and instabilities [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2790 Substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SM14B-01
Auroral Arcs in a Rice Convection Model Context (16118)
Richard Wolf1, Akshay Jaggi2, Stanislav Y Sazykin1, Jian Yang2 and Frank Toffoletto3, (1)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States
SM14B-02
Ballooning Instabilities in the Plasma Sheet in Conjunction with Auroral Wave Structures (Invited) (2560)
Xiaoyan Xing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jun Liang, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Emma Spanswick, University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, Larry R Lyons, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
SM14B-03
Multi-Case Study of Kinetic Ballooning-Interchange Waves in the Plasma Sheet (Invited) (6777)
Evgeny V Panov1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Marina V Kubyshkina2, Rumi Nakamura3 and Victor A Sergeev2, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (3)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria
SM14B-04
Mechanisms for Generating Finite Cross-Tail Jets in the Plasma Sheet (10317)
Philip L Pritchett, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States
SM14B-05
Fine-Scale Structuring of Pre-Breakup Arcs: Observations and Implications (Invited) (2570)
Tetsuo Motoba and Shinichi Ohtani, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States
SM14B-06
On the role of pre-onset streamers in substorm onset and development (Invited) (3057)
Larry Kepko, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
SM14B-07
A statistical study of dayside diffuse aurora observed at Yellow River Station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard (24245)
Desheng Han1, Zejun Hu1, Hongqiao Hu1, Huigen Yang1, De-Hong Huang1 and Xiangcai Chen2, (1)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China, (2)Xiangcai.Chen@unis.no, Geophysics Department, University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
SM14B-08
GREECE Sounding Rocket Mission Overview (26495)
Marilia Samara1, Robert Michell1, Guy Alan Grubbs II2, John W Bonnell3, Keiichi Ogasawara4, Donald L Hampton5, Joerg-Micha Jahn4, Eric Donovan6, Björn Gustavsson7, Betty Susan Lanchester8, Matthew G McHarg9, Emma Spanswick6, Trond S Trondsen10 and Philip W Valek4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, (7)UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Physics and Technology, Tromsø, Norway, (8)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (9)United States Air Force Academy, Department of Physics, Colorado Springs, United States, (10)Keo Scientific Ltd., Calgary, Canada
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