SM11B:
Understanding Multiscale Processes with Multipoint Magnetospheric Observations and Simulations I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  C Philippe Escoubet, ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands and David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  C Philippe Escoubet, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Co-conveners:  David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Arnaud Masson, European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain
OSPA Liaisons:  Arnaud Masson, European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Swarm: from Earth to Magnetosphere One Year after Launch
Roger Haagmans, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands; ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands and Rune Floberghagen, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy; European Space Agency, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
8:15 AM
 
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission Status 
Thomas Earle Moore1, Ron Black2, James L Burch2, Michael Hesse1, Brent P Robertson1, Peter D Spidaliere1, Susan Pope2, Craig R Tooley1 and Roy B Torbert3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
8:30 AM
 
Dawn-dusk asymmetries in the magnetopause and ring current.
Stein Haaland, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
8:45 AM
 
Structure and Origin of Magnetic Flux Transport Bursts in the Magnetotail
Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Acceleration of Electrons in the Earth’s Magnetotail during Substorms Using Multi-Scale Simulations
Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mostafa El-Alaoui, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Thick Bifurcated Current Sheet in the Near-Earth Tail Plasma Sheet
Miho Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
9:30 AM
 
Cluster Multi-Point Studies of the Auroral Acceleration Region
Goran Tage Marklund, Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden
9:45 AM
 
The Alfvén mission concept
Matthieu Berthomier, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France and Andrew Neil Fazakerley, University College London, London, United Kingdom