SA23B:
The Dynamic Polar Cap II Posters

Session ID#: 5392

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Gary S Bust, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and Yanshi Huang, University of New Mexico, 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:  Jeffrey M Holmes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, 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:

 
Risr-N Observation of the Characteristics of Polar Cap Patches and Implication for Patch Formation Mechanism (6077)
Shasha Zou1, Sina Y. Tafti2, Aaron J Ridley1, Mark B Moldwin3 and Michael J Nicolls4, (1)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
On the Symmetry of Ionospheric Polar Cap Patch Exits Around Magnetic Midnight (11494)
Joran Idar Moen, University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, Keisuke Hosokawa, University of Electro-Communications, Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, Chofu, Japan, Njal Gulbrandsen, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Lasse Boy Novock Clausen, University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway
 
A complicated evolution of a newly created Polar Cap Ionization Patch (12107)
Qing-He Zhang1, Joran Idar Moen2, Michael M Lockwood3, Beichen Zhang4, Qiugang Zong5, Shunrong Zhang6, J Michael Ruohoniemi7, Evan G Thomas8, Malcolm Wray Dunlop9, Ruiyuan Liu4, H-G Yang4, Hongqiao Hu4 and Mark Lester10, (1)Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, China, (2)University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, (3)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China, (5)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (7)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, (8)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (9)Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, (10)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
 
Multi-instrument Observations of the Formation and Evolution of Polar Cap Plasma Structures (19448)
Joseph B H Baker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Evan G Thomas, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States and J Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States
 
Properties of localized polar cap flow enhancements and their connection to nightside poleward boundary intensifications and substorms (24340)
Ying Zou, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Yukitoshi Nishimura, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Larry R Lyons, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kazuo Shiokawa, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Eric Donovan, University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, J Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, Kathryn A McWilliams, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Nozomu Nishitani, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Coordinated observations of dayside polar cap airglow patches by all-sky imagers and DMSP (27182)
Boyi Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, Departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Yukitoshi Nishimura, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Ying Zou, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Larry R Lyons, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Harald U Frey, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Stephen B Mende, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Flow Channel and Velocity Shear Impacts on the Thermoshperic CUSP, with Associated Neutral Upwelling (12891)
Larry C Gardner, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Herbert C Carlson, Utah State University, CASS, Logan, UT, United States and Robert Walter Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Dependency of the Cusp Density Anomaly on the Variability of Forcing Inside and Outside the Cusp (15706)
Douglas G Brinkman, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, United States, Richard L Walterscheid, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James H Clemmons, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States
 
Correlation between Poynting flux and soft electron precipitation around the cusp region (13501)
Cheng Sheng1, Yue Deng2, Yi-Jiun Su3, Delores Knipp4, Cheryl Y Huang3, Daniel M Ober5 and Robert J Redmon6,7, (1)University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States, (2)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (6)NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, United States, (7)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Tracking the energy input form the magnetosphere to the ionosphere-thermosphere system (27550)
Eftyhia Zesta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Yong Shi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Mariangel Fedrizzi, NOAA/SWPC - University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States and Mihail Codrescu, SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, United States
 
The Role of Polar Cap Flux Tube Deformation and Magnetosheath Plasma Beta in the Saturation of the Region 1 Field-Aligned Current System (16171)
Victoria D Wilder, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, Stefan Eriksson, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
 
Improved electron and ion temperatures and application to the Nov-24-12 substorm (19747)
Jie Zhu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Polar Cap Heating of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere (6958)
Cheryl Y Huang1, Yanshi Huang2, Yi-Jiun Su1, Eric K Sutton3, Marc R Hairston4 and William Robin Coley5, (1)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Texas at Dallas, William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Richardson, TX, United States, (5)Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
 
A Simulation Study of the Thermosphere Mass Density Response to Substorms Using GITM Model (18993)
Xianjing Liu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Statistical Characteristics of the Subauroral Ion Drifts (9116)
Fei He, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, Xiaoxin Zhang, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China and Bo Chen, CIOMP Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, CAS, Changchun, China
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