SA22A:
The Dynamic Polar Cap I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jeffrey M Holmes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States and Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Yanshi Huang, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Creation of polar cap patches
Keisuke Hosokawa, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, Satoshi Taguchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Yasunobu Ogawa, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
10:35 AM
 
ICI-III sounding rocket investigation of a Reversed flow event seen by the EISCAT Svalbard Radar
Yvonne Dåbakk, University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Joran Idar Moen, University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, Herbert C Carlson, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Yoshifumi Saito, Inst Space & Astronautical Sci, Kanagawa, Japan and Takumi Abe, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan
10:50 AM
 
The field-aligned-current system of a sun-aligned arc over Resolute Bay
Gareth W Perry1, Hanna Dahlgren2,3, Michael J Nicolls4, Matthew D Zettergren5, Jean-Pierre St-Maurice1, Joshua L Semeter6, Keisuke Hosokawa7 and Kazuo Shiokawa8, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (6)Boston Univ, Boston, MA, United States, (7)University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, (8)Nagoya University, Solar terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan
11:02 AM
 
Predicting Thermospheric Density at High Latitude during Magnetic Storms using Coupled Global Geospace Simulations
Binzheng Zhang1, Michael James Wiltberger2, Oliver Brambles1, William Lotko1 and John Lyon1, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
11:17 AM
 
Assessing Locations of Energy Transfer/Deposit in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Jiannan Tu and Paul Song, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Space Science Laboratory and Physics Department, Lowell, MA, United States
11:29 AM
 
From Correlations to Causes: Transient Energy Injection into the Polar Thermosphere
Herbert C Carlson1, Anasuya L Aruliah2, Asmund Skjaeveland3 and Joran Idar Moen3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)University College London, Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway
11:41 AM
 
High-latitude Poynting flux measured by DMSP satellites during magnetic storms
Yanshi Huang1, Cheryl Y Huang2 and Yi-Jiun Su2, (1)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
11:53 AM
 
Day-night coupling by a localized flow channel visualized by polar cap patch propagation
Toshi Nishimura1, Larry R Lyons1, Ying Zou1, Boyi Wang1, Kjellmar Oksavik2, Joran Idar Moen3, Lasse Clausen4, Eric Donovan5, Vassilis Angelopoulos6, Kazuo Shiokawa7, J. Michael Ruohoniemi8, Nozomu Nishitani9, Kathryn A McWilliams10 and Mark Lester11, (1)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, (4)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (5)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Nagoya University, Solar terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan, (8)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (9)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (10)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (11)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
12:08 PM
 
Solar Wind Effect on Joule Heating in the High-Latitude Ionosphere
Lei Cai, Anita Taina Aikio and Tuomo J Nygren, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
 
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