SA23B:
The Dynamic Polar Cap II Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Gary S Bust, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and Yanshi Huang, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Yanshi Huang, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Gary S Bust, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and Jeffrey M Holmes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jeffrey M Holmes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Risr-N Observation of the Characteristics of Polar Cap Patches and Implication for Patch Formation Mechanism
Shasha Zou1, Sina Y. Tafti1, Aaron J Ridley1, Mark Moldwin1 and Michael J Nicolls2, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
On the Symmetry of Ionospheric Polar Cap Patch Exits Around Magnetic Midnight
Joran Idar Moen, University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, Keisuke Hosokawa, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, N Gulbrandsen, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Lasse Clausen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
 
A complicated evolution of a newly created Polar Cap Ionization Patch
Qing-He Zhang1, Joran Idar Moen2, Michael M Lockwood3, Bei-chen Zhang4, Qiugang Zong5, Shunrong Zhang6, J. Michael Ruohoniemi7, Evan G Thomas7, Malcolm W. Dunlop8, Ruiyuan Liu4, Huigen Yang4, Hongqiao Hu4 and Mark Lester9, (1)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (2)University of Oslo, Physics Department, Oslo, Norway, (3)University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, (4)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China, (5)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (7)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (8)Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, (9)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
 
Multi-instrument Observations of the Formation and Evolution of Polar Cap Plasma Structures
Joseph B. H. Baker1, Evan G Thomas2, Anthea J Coster3 and J. Michael Ruohoniemi2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
 
Properties of localized polar cap flow enhancements and their connection to nightside poleward boundary intensifications and substorms
Ying Zou1, Yukitoshi Nishimura2, Larry R Lyons2, Kazuo Shiokawa3, Eric Donovan4, J. Michael Ruohoniemi5, Kathryn A McWilliams6 and Nozomu Nishitani7, (1)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Nagoya University, Solar terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan, (4)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (5)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (6)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (7)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Coordinated observations of dayside polar cap airglow patches by all-sky imagers and DMSP
Boyi Wang1, Toshi Nishimura1, Ying Zou2, Larry R Lyons1, Harald U Frey3 and Stephen B Mende3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Flow Channel and Velocity Shear Impacts on the Thermoshperic CUSP, with Associated Neutral Upwelling
Larry C Gardner1, Herbert C Carlson2 and Robert Walter Schunk2, (1)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Dependency of the Cusp Density Anomaly on the Variability of Forcing Inside and Outside the Cusp
Douglas G Brinkman1, Richard L Walterscheid2 and James H Clemmons2, (1)The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA, United States, (2)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States
 
Correlation between Poynting flux and soft electron precipitation around the cusp region
Cheng Sheng1, Yue Deng1, Yi-Jiun Su2, Delores J Knipp3, Cheryl Y Huang2, Daniel M Ober2 and Robert J Redmon4,5, (1)University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Natl Geophysical Data Ctr, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Tracking the energy input form the magnetosphere to the ionosphere-thermosphere system
Eftyhia Zesta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Hyunju Connor, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yong Shi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Mariangel Fedrizzi, NOAA/SWPC-Univ. Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Mihail Codrescu, SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Role of Polar Cap Flux Tube Deformation and Magnetosheath Plasma Beta in the Saturation of the Region 1 Field-Aligned Current System
Frederick D Wilder, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Stefan Eriksson, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Improved electron and ion temperatures and application to the Nov-24-12 substorm
Jie Zhu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Polar Cap Heating of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere
Cheryl Y Huang1, Yanshi Huang2, Yi-Jiun Su1, Eric K Sutton1, Marc R Hairston3 and William Robin Coley4, (1)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (4)Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
 
A Simulation Study of the Thermosphere Mass Density Response to Substorms Using GITM Model
Xianjing Liu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Statistical Characteristics of the Subauroral Ion Drifts
Fei He1, Xiaoxin Zhang2 and Bo Chen1, (1)CIOMP Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, CAS, Changchun, China, (2)CMA China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
 
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