SM44A
Plasma Sheet Processes and Magnetotail Origins of Auroral Morphology I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2018 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
Conveners:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
Chairs:  Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China and Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
16:00
Current sheet thinning, reconnection onset, and auroral morphology during geomagnetic substorms (Invited) (60085)
Antonius Otto, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
16:15
Coupling between pre-onset flows and substorm onset waves (Invited) (58982)
Toshi Nishimura1, Larry R Lyons1, Vassilis Angelopoulos2, Eric Donovan3 and Stephen B Mende4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
16:30
Plasma Flows and Three-Dimensional Current System Before and at Substom Onset (72139)
Laurianne Palin, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
16:42
3D kinetic picture of magnetotail explosions and characteristic auroral features prior to and after substorm onset (Invited) (60007)
Mikhail I. Sitnov1, Viacheslav G Merkin2 and Tetsuo Motoba1, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
16:57
Kink-mode oscillations of the magnetotail current sheet driven by quasi-continuous reconnection during a steady magnetospheric convection: Geotail and THEMIS conjunction (64206)
Hiroshi Hasegawa1, Iku Shinohara1, Tsugunobu Nagai2, Masahiro Hoshino3, Yoshifumi Saito1, Vassilis Angelopoulos4, Mariko Teramoto1 and Katsuaki Higashimori3, (1)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
17:09
Quantitative analysis of the dynamics and morphology of substorm aurora (Invited) (59337)
Kyle R Murphy1, David G Sibeck2, Clare Watt3, Jonathan Rae4, Larry Kepko1, Ian Robert Mann5, Eric Donovan6 and Emma Spanswick6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (6)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
17:24
Flapping current sheet motions in magnetotail excited by non-adiabatic ions: case study (68630)
Xinhua Wei Jr, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China
17:36
MMS Observations of Kinetic Features in the Earth’s Bursty Bulk Flow Braking Region (77211)
Katherine Goodrich1, Robert Ergun2, Frederick D Wilder1, Andrew Paul Sturner3, Justin Holmes3, Julia E Stawarz3, David Malaspina4, Maria Usanova1, Roy B Torbert5, Per-Arne Lindqvist6, Yuri V Khotyaintsev7, James L Burch8, Christopher T Russell9, Robert J Strangeway9, Craig J Pollock10, Werner Magnes11, Olivier Le Contel12, Barbara L Giles13, Mark Chutter14, Jerry Needell15, David Rau14 and Daniel J Gershman16, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (12)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (15)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (16)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
17:48
In-situ measurement of the substorm onset instability (81245)
Jonathan Rae, University College London, London, United Kingdom