SM14C
Understanding the Dynamic Loss of Earth's Radiation Belts I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2018 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Allison N Jaynes, University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Binbin Ni, Wuhan University, Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan, China, Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Allison N Jaynes, University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States and Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Allison N Jaynes, University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States
16:00
Quantifying the Role of Different Magnetospheric Plasma Waves in Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (Invited) (84823)
Richard M Thorne1, Binbin Ni1, Wen Li1, Xiaojia Zhang2 and Jacob Bortnik1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
16:12
Wide energy electron precipitations and their impact on the middle atmosphere associated with the pulsating aurora (Invited) (61116)
Yoshizumi Miyoshi1, Shin-ichiro Oyama2, Shinji Saito2, Esa S Turunen3, Satoshi Kurita2, Antti Kero4, Pekka T Verronen5, Ryuho Kataoka6, Yusuke Ebihara7, Craig Kletzing8, Geoffrey D Reeves9, Ondrej Santolik10, Mark A. Clilverd11, Craig J Rodger12 and Fuminori Tsuchiya13, (1)STEL, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (3)University Oulu, Sodankyla, Finland, (4)Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory, Sodankyla, Finland, (5)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (6)National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan, (7)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (8)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (9)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (10)Institute of Atmospheric Physics ACSR, Praha 4, Czech Republic, (11)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (12)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (13)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
16:24
Conjugate In-situ and Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations of Radiation Belt Loss Mechanisms. (71045)
Stephen Roland Kaeppler, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
16:48
The Impenetrable Barrier Revisited – Anthroprogenic Effects on Earth’s Radiation Belts (76627)
John C Foster1, Daniel N. Baker2, Philip John Erickson1, Jay Albert3, J. F. Fennell4, Evgeny V Mishin5, Michael J Starks6, Allison N Jaynes7, Xinlin Li8, Shrikanth G Kanekal9 and Craig Kletzing10, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (6)AFRL/RVBX, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Univ Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
17:00
BARREL Observations of Relativistic Electron Precipitation (Invited) (61013)
Robyn M Millan, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
17:12
Quantifying Energy-Time Dispersion of Relativistic Electron Microbursts to Constrain Their Generation Mechanism: Coordinated Studies Using FIREBIRD, Van Allen Probes, and BARREL (84275)
Harlan E. Spence, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, J. Bernard Blake, Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alexander B Crew, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, J. F. Fennell, Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, Brian Larsen, The New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Robyn M Millan, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Thomas Paul O'Brien III, Aerospace Corporation Chantilly, Chantilly, VA, United States, Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sonya S Smith, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
17:24
Electron Radiation Belt Dropouts in the Absence of Geomagnetic Storms (84397)
Steven Morley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
17:36
Experimental observations of electron precipitation driven by EMIC waves (Invited) (64541)
Craig J Rodger1, Aaron Hendry1, Mark A. Clilverd2, Craig Kletzing3, Mark J. Engebretson4, Geoffrey D Reeves5, James B Brundell1,6 and Marc Lessard7, (1)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)ULTRA MSK, Dunedin, New Zealand, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
17:48
Direct Evidence of EMIC-Driven Electron Loss in Space: Evaluation of an Electron Dropout Event (75498)
Xiaojia Zhang, Wen Li, Qianli Ma, Richard M Thorne and Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States