SM12A
Bow Shock, Magnetosheath, Magnetopause, and Mid-Tail Processes and Their Role in Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2018 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Brian Walsh, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Chih-Ping Wang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Chairs:  Brian Walsh, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Brian Walsh, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
10:35
The Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Energy Coupling Function and Open Magnetic Flux Estimation: Two Science Aspects of the SMILE Mission (Invited) (60167)
Chi Wang, Lei Dai, Tianran Sun and Jinpeng Han, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China
10:50
A Statistical Study of the Magnetic Structure of Magnetic Clouds Downstream of the Earth's Bow Shock (64482)
Lucile Turc, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands, Dominique Fontaine, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Emilia Kilpua, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and C Philippe Escoubet, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
11:02
On the Origin of Magnetosheath Plasmoids, and Their Relation to Magnetosheath Jets (61785)
Tomas Karlsson1, Elisabet Ida Liljeblad1, Anita Kullen2, Nils Brenning1, Hans Nilsson3, Maria Hamrin4 and Timo Pitkänen5, (1)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)EES KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (4)Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (5)University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
11:14
Influence of the Magnetosheath Waves on the Dayside Reconnection (72353)
Sanni Hoilijoki, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
11:26
Observational evidence for plasma diffusion driven by Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices at the duskside of the low latitude boundary layer (Invited) (59030)
Guangqing Yan1,2, Forrest Mozer2, Chao Shen1,3, Tai Phan2, George K Parks2, James P McFadden2, Henri Rème4 and Tao Chen1, (1)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)IRAP, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
11:41
Statistics on the plasma properties in the magnetosheath and the efficiency of magnetopause reconnection (76648)
Hui Zhang1, Changbo Zhu2, Krishan K Khurana3, Margaret Kivelson3, Zuyin Pu4, Suiyan Fu5, Weixing Wan6, Libo Liu6, Yiding Chen6 and Huijun Le6, (1)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Peking University, Beijing, China, (5)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
11:53
Fine Scale Structure of the Afternoon Equatorial Magnetopause as Seen on the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (Invited) (60048)
Christopher T Russell1, Guan Le2, Wolfgang Baumjohann3, Ferdinand Plaschke4, Robert J Strangeway5, Cong Zhao5, Hannes Karl Leinweber6, Brian J Anderson7, David Fischer4, James A Slavin8, Kenneth R Bromund2, Larry Kepko2, Mark Chutter9, Roy B Torbert10, Werner Magnes11, Rumi Nakamura12 and James L Burch13, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (4)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (5)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (11)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (12)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (13)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
12:08
Low-Frequency Wave Activity Detected by MMS during Dusk Magnetopause Crossings and its Relation to Heating and Acceleration of Particles (72270)
Olivier Le Contel1, Alain Roux2, Alessandro Retino1, Laurent Mirioni2, Fouad Sahraoui3, Thomas Chust4, Matthieu Berthomier3, Alexandros Chasapis3, Nicolas Aunai2, Paul Leroy2, Dominique Alison2, Benoit Lavraud5, Per-Arne Lindqvist6, Yuri V Khotyaintsev7, Andris Vaivads8, Goran Tage Marklund9, James L Burch10, Roy B Torbert11, Tom Moore12, Robert E Ergun13, Jerry Needell14, Mark Chutter15, David Rau15, Ivan Dors15, John Macri14, Christopher T Russell16, Werner Magnes17, Robert J Strangeway18, Kenneth R Bromund19, Ferdinand Plaschke20, David Fischer20, Hannes Karl Leinweber21, Brian J Anderson22, Rumi Nakamura23, Matthew R Argall11, Guan Le19, James A Slavin24, Larry Kepko19, Wolfgang Baumjohann25, Craig J Pollock26, Barry Mauk27, Stephen A Fuselier10, Katherine Goodrich28 and Frederick D Wilder28, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (3)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, (4)Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (5)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (8)Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (9)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (12)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (15)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (16)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (17)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (18)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (20)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (21)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (22)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (23)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (24)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (25)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (26)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (27)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (28)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States