SM13E:
Theory and Observation of Magnetic Reconnection in Complex Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Conditions I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Mark Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Co-conveners:  John Dorelli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Marc M Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Reconnection Efficiency Determined from Statistical Properties of Magnetosheath Flux
Hui Zhang1, Krishan K Khurana2, Margaret Kivelson2, Suiyan Fu3, Zuyin Pu3, Weixing Wan1, Libo Liu1 and Changbo Zhu1, (1)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China
 
Observational Test of the Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection Rate
Shan Wang, Lynn M Kistler and Christopher Mouikis, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Measures of Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause
Colin M Komar and Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Asymmetric Reconnection With A Shear Flow andĀ Applications to X-line Motion at the Polar Cusps
Christopher Doss1, Colin M Komar1, Matthew Beidler1, Paul Cassak1, Frederick D Wilder2 and Stefan Eriksson2, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Effects of a Guide Field on the Larmor Electric Field in Collisionless Asymmetric Reconnection
Kittipat Malakit1, Surapat Ek-In1, David J Ruffolo1, Michael A Shay2 and Paul Cassak3, (1)Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Hall MHD in the Magnetopause with OpenGGCM
Kristofor-Ryan M Maynard, Kai Germaschewski, Liwei Lin and Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Visualization and Analysis of Complex Reconnection using the CCMC's Kameleon-plus Access and Interpolation Library
Asher D Pembroke and Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Ion Dynamics during Substorm Events Modeled with Coupled Global MHD and Kinetic Models
Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 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
 
The Effect of a Guide Field on the Structures of Magnetic Islands: 2D PIC Simulations
Can Huang, Quanming Lu, San Lu, Peiran Wang and Shui Wang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Comparison of Two-Fluid and Kinetic Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in Line-Tied Systems
Cihan Akcay1, William S Daughton2, Adam Stanier1 and Vyacheslav S Lukin3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Rapid Change of Field Line Connectivity and Reconnection in Stochastic Magnetic Fields
Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Allen H Boozer, Columbia University of New York, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Ulysses Observations of Tripolar Guide-Magnetic Field Perturbations Across Solar Wind Reconnection Exhausts
Stefan Eriksson1, Bo Peng2, Stefano Markidis2, John T Gosling1, David J McComas3, Giovanni Lapenta4 and David L Newman1, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Solar Magnetic Reconnection at Low Altitudes and Associated Type III Solar Radio Bursts and X-Ray Emission
Iver Hugh Cairns1, Vasili V Lobzin2, Alina Donea3, Steven Tingay4, Divya Oberoi5, Michael J Reiner6 and Donald B Melrose1, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (2)Bureau of Meteorology, Learmonth Solar Observatory, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (3)Monash University, Center for Astrophysics, Melbourne, Australia, (4)Curtin University, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Perth, WA, Australia, (5)Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, National Center for Radio Astronomy, Bangalore, India, (6)Catholic Univ & GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Shock--turbulence interaction in magnetic reconnection: Density variance effects
Nobumitsu Yokoi, University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan
 
New Theory of Whistler Waves Observed during Magnetotail Reconnection*
Martin V Goldman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, David L Newman, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Magnetospheric Multiscale Science Operations, Data Acquisition, Data Management, and Data Access and Archiving
Barbara L Giles1, Daniel N. Baker2, Stephen Fuselier3, Robert Ergun4, Steven M Petrinec5, Tai-Duc Phan6, Mitsuo Oka6, James L Burch3, Roy B Torbert7, Thomas Earle Moore8, Christopher K Pankratz2, Jason Beech2, Lonnie J Riesberg2, Russ S Panneton2, Frederick D Wilder9, Katherine Goodrich9 and William S Lewis3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Lockheed Martin STAR Labs, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States