SH22A:
Magnetic Reconnection and Flux Redistribution: Three-Dimensional Dynamics at Multiple Scales I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Merav Opher, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Primary Conveners:  Merav Opher, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Co-conveners:  Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Merav Opher, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Magnetic Flux Erosion and Redistribution during CME Propagation
Benoit Lavraud1, Alexis Ruffenach2, Ward Manchester3, Charles J Farrugia4, Pascal Demoulin5, Sergio Dasso6, Jean-Andre Sauvaud1, Alexis P Rouillard1, Claire Foullon7, Mathew James Owens8, Neel Savani9, Primoz Kajdic10, Janet G Luhmann11 and Antoinette Broe Galvin12, (1)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (2)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (6)University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (7)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (8)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (9)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (10)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (11)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
10:35 AM
 
Magnetic Reconnection in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections
Raymond L Fermo, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Merav Opher, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
10:50 AM
 
Recent Observational Advances in our Understanding of Magnetic Reconnection in Earth's Magnetosphere
Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Onset and Evolution of Magnetic Reconnection in Line-Tied Systems
William S Daughton1, Cihan Akcay1, Zach Billey2, John Finn1, Ellen Zweibel2 and Walter N Gekelman3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Physics, Madison, WI, United States, (3)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Core Electron Heating in Solar Wind Reconnection Exhausts
Marc Pulupa1, Chadi S Salem1, Tai-Duc Phan1, John T Gosling2 and Stuart D Bale1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
11:35 AM
 
Three-Dimensional Turbulent Reconnection Induced by the Plasmoid Instability
Amitava Bhattacharjee and Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:50 AM
 
Two-Ribbon Flares Spreading in the Third Dimension
Jiong Qiu and Dana W Longcope, Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT, United States
12:05 PM
 
Cross-scale Observational Signatures of Magnetic Reconnection
Sabrina L Savage, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Madison, AL, United States and David Malaspina, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States