SM22A
The Role of Magnetotail Transients in Magnetospheric Dynamics: Recent Progress in Observations and Simulations II

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2018 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Huishan Fu, Beihang University, Beijing, China, Joachim Birn, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Chairs:  Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Joachim Birn, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Huishan Fu, Beihang University, Space Science Institute, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China and Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
OSPA Liaisons:  Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
10:20
Spontaneous formation of magnetotail bursty bulk flows, dipolarization fronts, and corresponding changes of magnetic topology (Invited) (60006)
Mikhail I. Sitnov, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
10:32
Reconnection Exhaust Jets as the Progenitor of Magnetotail Transients (63439)
Philip L Pritchett, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
10:44
Two states of magnetotail dipolarization fronts: A statistical study (Invited) (60816)
Daniel Schmid1,2, Rumi Nakamura1, Ferdinand Plaschke1, Martin Volwerk1 and Wolfgang Baumjohann1, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)University of Graz, NAWI, Graz, Austria
10:56
Fast Flows and Entropy Evolution in Global Hybrid Simulation (73186)
Yu Lin1, Xueyi Wang1, Simon Wing2, Jay Johnson3 and Joseph D Perez1, (1)Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratiry, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:08
Electric Field, Field-aligned Current and Electromagnetic Waves in the Dip Region in front of the Dipolarization Front (Invited) (76280)
Suiyan Fu, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
11:20
Conversion of electromagnetic energy at plasma jet fronts (79039)
Yuri V Khotyaintsev1, Andrey V Divin2, Daniel Bruce Graham1, Andris Vaivads1, Mats Andre1, Per-Arne Lindqvist3, Alessandro Retino4, Olivier Le Contel5, Robert E Ergun6, Katherine Goodrich7, Roy B Torbert8, Christopher T Russell9, Werner Magnes10, Rumi Nakamura11, Craig J Pollock12, Barry Mauk13 and Stephen A Fuselier14, (1)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Swedish Inst of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (5)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (6)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (11)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (14)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
11:32
Characteristics of DC electric fields in transient plasma sheet events (59559)
Harri E Laakso, ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands
11:44
The Role of Localized Inductive Electric Fields in Electron Injections Around Dipolarizing Flux Bundles (Invited) (60719)
Christine Gabrielse1, Camilla Harris1, Vassilis Angelopoulos2 and Andrei Runov1, (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
11:56
In situ observations of multistage electron acceleration driven by magnetic reconnection (80412)
Mingyu Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
12:08
Propagation of Buoyancy Waves Through the Magnetosphere (80642)
Richard Wolf, Aaron Moore Schutza and Frank R Toffoletto, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States