Chairs: Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Harry P Warren, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners: Pontus C. Brandt, Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States
Co-conveners: Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Harry P Warren, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Structure and Evolution of Magnetic Reconnection and Flux Rope in the Magnetotail: A Three-Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulation
San Lu1, Yu Lin2, Quanming Lu1, Xueyi Wang2, Rongsheng Wang3, Can Huang1, Mingyu Wu1 and Shui Wang1, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, (3)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
The Location of Magnetic Reconnection at Saturn’s Magnetopause: a Comparison with Earth
William S Lewis1, Stephen Fuselier1, Rudy A Frahm1, Adam Masters2, Joey Mukherjee1, Steven M Petrinec3 and Ilkka Sillanpaa1, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Cupertino, CA, United States
Empirical Modeling of Magnetotail Reconnection
Kevin James Genestreti1, Stephen Fuselier1, Jerry Goldstein1, Tsugunobu Nagai2 and Jonathan P Eastwood3, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Global impact of collisionless magnetic reconnection on the structure of planetary magnetospheres
John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Glyn Collinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Gabor Toth, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
MHD-Epic: Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Reconnection in Global 3D Extended MHD Simulations
Lars K S Daldorff1, Gabor Toth1, Dmitry Borovikov2, Tamas I Gombosi3 and Giovanni Lapenta4, (1)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
