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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, China; Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ping Zhu, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, China
Co-conveners:  Joachim Raeder, Space Science Ctr, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
SM14B-01
 
Auroral Arcs in a Rice Convection Model Context
Richard Wolf, Akshay Jaggi, Stanislav Y Sazykin, Jian Yang and Frank Toffoletto, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
4:15 PM
SM14B-02
 
Ballooning Instabilities in the Plasma Sheet in Conjunction with Auroral Wave Structures
Xiaoyan Xing1,2, Jun Liang3, Emma Spanswick4, Larry R Lyons2 and Vassilis Angelopoulos1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
4:30 PM
SM14B-03
 
Multi-Case Study of Kinetic Ballooning-Interchange Waves in the Plasma Sheet
Evgeny V Panov1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Marina Kubyshkina2, Rumi Nakamura1 and Victor A Sergeev2, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
4:45 PM
SM14B-04
 
Mechanisms for Generating Finite Cross-Tail Jets in the Plasma Sheet
Philip L Pritchett, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
5:00 PM
SM14B-05
 
Fine-Scale Structuring of Pre-Breakup Arcs: Observations and Implications
Tetsuo Motoba and Shinichi Ohtani, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States
5:15 PM
SM14B-06
 
On the role of pre-onset streamers in substorm onset and development
Larry Kepko, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
5:30 PM
SM14B-07
 
A statistical study of dayside diffuse aurora observed at Yellow River Station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
Desheng Han1, Zejun Hu1, Hongqiao Hu1, Huigen Yang1, Dehong 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
5:45 PM
SM14B-08
 
GREECE Sounding Rocket Mission Overview
Marilia Samara1, Robert Michell2, Guy Alan Grubbs II3, John W Bonnell4, Keiichi Ogasawara2, Donald L Hampton5, Joerg-Micha Jahn2, Eric Donovan6, Björn Gustavsson7, Betty Susan Lanchester8, Matthew G McHarg9, Emma Spanswick6, Trond S Trondsen10 and Philip W Valek2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (7)University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, (8)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (9)United States Air Force Academy, Department of Physics, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (10)KEO Scientific Ltd., Calgary, Canada
 
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