GP44A:
ESA's Swarm Mission, One Year in Space II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  David J Knudsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Claudia Stolle, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Conveners:  Gauthier Hulot, IPGP, Paris, France
Co-conveners:  Hermann Luhr, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, Eigil A Friis-Christensen, DTU, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark and David J Knudsen, Univ Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  David J Knudsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Coupling from Dynamics Explorer to Swarm and Beyond
Thomas Earle Moore1, James H Clemmons2, Glyn Collinson1, Daniel J Gershman1, George V Khazanov1, Lynn M Kistler3, David J Knudsen4, Robert F Pfaff Jr1, Craig J Pollock1 and Douglas E. Rowland1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Aerospace Corporation Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
4:15 PM
 
Scientific Highlights from the Swarm Electric Field Instruments
David J Knudsen1, William Archer1, Johnathan K Burchill1, Stephan C Buchert2, Eric Donovan1, Bela G Fejer3, Brian J Jackel1, Matthew Patrick1, Jean-Pierre St-Maurice4 and Claudia Stolle5, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (4)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (5)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
4:30 PM
 
Coordinated Swarm in Situ and THEMIS All Sky Imager (ASI) Observations of the Motion of Patchy Pulsating Aurora
Bing Yang1, Jun Liang1, Eric Donovan1, David J Knudsen1, Johnathan K Burchill1, Alexei Kouznetsov1, J. Michael Ruohoniemi2, Emma Spanswick1 and Kyle Rae1, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
4:45 PM
 
Coordinated Coverage of the Ring Current, Cusp and Adjacent FACs with Cluster and Swarm
Malcolm Wray Dunlop1,2, Yulia Bogdanova3, Junying Yang2, Yanyan Yang4, Chao Shen4, Hermann Luhr5, Chao Xiong5, Nils Olsen6, Qing-He Zhang7, Patricia Ritter5, Kirsti Kauristie8, Arnaud Masson9 and Roger Haagmans10, (1)Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, United Kingdom, (2)Beihang University, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China, (3)Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford Didcot, United Kingdom, (4)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (6)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (7)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (8)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (9)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (10)ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
5:00 PM
 
Swarm Observations of Field-Aligned Currents: Case Studies
Guan Le1, Peter J Chi2, Jesper W Gjerloev3, Claudia Stolle4, Hermann Luhr4, Jaeheung Park4 and Jan Rauberg4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
5:15 PM
 
Confirmation of Small Scale Field-Aligned Currents in Middle and Low Latitudes and an Estimation of Their Typical Period of Temporal Variation
Toshihiko Iyemori1, Kunihito Nakanishi1, Tadashi Aoyama1, Hermann Luhr2, Masahito Nose3, Yukinobu Koyama1 and Yoshihiro Yokoyama3, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan
5:30 PM
 
Equatorial Post-Sunset Plasma Irregularities As Seen from the Swarm Constellation Mission
Claudia Stolle1, Jaeheung Park1, Chao Xiong1, Hermann Luhr1, Bela G Fejer2, Jan Rauberg1 and Ingo Michaelis1, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
5:45 PM
 
A study of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling using Swarm ULF wave observations
Georgios Balasis1, Ioannis A. Daglis2, Konstantinos Papadimitriou1,3, Ian Robert Mann4 and Roger Haagmans5, (1)National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, (2)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (3)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Penteli, Athens, Greece, (4)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (5)ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands