SM14A
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Processes I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2016 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kyoung-Joo Hwang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and William Lotko, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Chairs:  Hyunju Connor, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Kyoung-Joo Hwang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Hyunju Connor, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
16:00
Introductory Remarks
16:01
Global MHD simulations of plasmaspheric plumes (Invited) (61410)
John Lyon, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States
16:16
A Statistical Study of Plasmaspheric Plumes and Ionospheric Outflows Observed at the Dayside Magnetopause (59830)
Sun-Hee Lee1, Hui Zhang2, Q. -G. Zong3, Antonius Otto2, Henri Rème4 and E. Liebert5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Peking University, Institute of space physics and applied technology school of Earth and Space Sciences,, Beijing, China, (4)University of Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France, (5)Institute for geosphysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany
16:28
The Role of Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (79606)
Kyoung-Joo Hwang1, David G Sibeck2, Sun-Hee Lee1, Yukitoshi Nishimura3, James M Weygand4, Eric Donovan5 and Emma Spanswick5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
16:40
The Major Pathways of the Plasma Sheet Electrons Precipitated in the Regions of Diffuse Aurora (Invited) (58361)
George V Khazanov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
16:55
Modeling ionospheric electron precipitation due to wave particle scattering in the magnetosphere and the feedback effect on the magnetospheric dynamics (68610)
Yiqun Yu, Beihang University, Beijing, China, Vania Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Aaron J Ridley, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, AOSS, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
17:07
Energy Flow in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) System (Invited) (59938)
Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
17:22
Impacts of ionospheric outflow on storm-time F-region thermospheric mass density modeling (82942)
Binzheng Zhang, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
17:46
Swarm observations of kilometer-scale low-altitude cusp/cleft ion upflow and downflow (67069)
Johnathan K Burchill and David J Knudsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
17:58
Concluding Remarks