SM13D:
Plasma Sheet Instabilities and Magnetotail Origins of Auroral Structures I Posters

Session ID#: 4517

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
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:

 
SM13D-4189
Gyrokinetic Theory of Electromagnetic Drift Instabilities Near the Center of a Harris Current Sheet with Guide Field† (30717)
Kurt Tummel1, Liu Chen1 and Zhenyu Wang2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States
 
SM13D-4190
Dispersive scale Alfven waves associated with broadband aurora: Results of 2-D gyrofluid-kinetic electron simulations (23769)
Peter A Damiano, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States and Christopher Carew Chaston, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
SM13D-4191
Quasi-separatrix Layers Induced by Ballooning Instability in Near-Earth Magnetotail* (18835)
Ping Zhu1,2, Arash Sangari3 and Phillip Bonofiglo3, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Engineering and Applied Physics, Hefei, China, (2)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, (3)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
SM13D-4192
Kelvin-Helmholtz Unstable Magnetotail Flow Channels: Deceleration and Radiation of MHD Waves (3148)
Hava Turkakin1, Ian Robert Mann2 and Robert Rankin2, (1)Utica University, Physics, Utica, United States, (2)University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
SM13D-4193
Signal Propagation from the Tail to the Ionosphere (6939)
Dr. Banafsheh Ferdousi, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States; Space Science Ctr, Durham, United States and Joachim Raeder, Space Science Ctr, Durham, NH, United States
 
SM13D-4194
Possible Connection of Field and Particle Fluctuations in Near-Earth Tail to Pre-Breakup Evolution of Auroral Arcs (29029)
Tetsuo Motoba and Shinichi Ohtani, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States
 
SM13D-4196
Relative Timing of Substorm-Associated Processes in the Near-Earth Magnetotail and Development of Auroral Onset Arc (12699)
Yukinaga Miyashita1, Akimasa Ieda1, Shinobu Machida2, Yasutaka Hiraki3, Vassilis Angelopoulos4, James P McFadden5, Hans Ulrich Auster6, Stephen B Mende7, Eric Donovan8 and Davin E Larson9, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (3)National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (6)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (7)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (8)University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, (9)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
SM13D-4197
Catapult current sheet relaxation model confirmed by THEMIS observations (21086)
Shinobu Machida1, Yukinaga Miyashita2, Akimasa Ieda2, Masahito Nosé3, Vassilis Angelopoulos4 and James P McFadden5, (1)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
SM13D-4198
Statistical study of auroral fragmentation into patches (21057)
Ayumi Hashimoto1, Kazuo Shiokawa2, Yuichi Otsuka1, Shin-ichiro Oyama3, Satonori Nozawa1, Tomoaki Hori4 and Mark Lester5, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (3)ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (4)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya, Japan, (5)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
 
SM13D-4199
Comparison of Electromagnetic Field Signatures in Regions of Dispersive and Quasi-Static Electron Precipitation During the GREECE Sounding Rocket Flight (23156)
John W Bonnell1, Nathan Carruth1, Amanda Slagle2, Marilia Samara3, Robert Michell3, Guy Alan Grubbs II4, Keiichi Ogasawara5 and Jörg-Micha Jahn5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
SM13D-4200
Development of Ground-Based Auroral Photometry Techniques Using In-Situ Electron Precipitation Measurements from the GREECE Mission (25280)
Guy Alan Grubbs II1, Marilia Samara2, Robert Michell2 and Donald Hampton3, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
SM13D-4201
Electron Precipitation Associated with Small-Scale Auroral Structures (27432)
Robert Michell1, Marilia Samara1, Guy Alan Grubbs II2, Donald L Hampton3, John W Bonnell4 and Keiichi Ogasawara5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
SM13D-4202
Determining Earth’s magnetotail structure from low-altitude isotropic boundaries (26084)
Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, Natalia Y Ganushkina, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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