SA22A
Neutral Winds, Currents, and Electric Fields at Low- and Midlatitudes below 200 km: A Critical Review of Our Knowledge and Understanding I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2016 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Robert F Pfaff Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Takumi Abe, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, Miguel Folkmar Larsen, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States and Scott England, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Robert F Pfaff Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mamoru Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:20
Modeling the three-dimensional structure of ionospheric electrodynamics (Invited) (61041)
Astrid I Maute, NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Arthur D Richmond, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
10:35
Simultaneous Observations of Electric Fields, Current Density, Plasma Density, and Neutral Winds During Two Sounding Rocket Experiments Launched from Wallops Island into Strong Daytime Dynamo Currents (80175)
Robert F Pfaff Jr1, Douglas E. Rowland1, Jeffrey Klenzing2, Henry T Freudenreich2, Steven C Martin2, Takumi Abe3, Hiroto Habu3, Masa-yuki Yamamoto4, Shigeto Watanabe5, Mamoru Yamamoto6, Tatsuhiro Yokoyama7, Yoshihiro Kakinami8, Yosuke Yamazaki9, Miguel Folkmar Larsen10, Lucas Hurd10, James H Clemmons11, Rebecca L Bishop12, Richard L Walterscheid12, Chad S Fish13, Terence W Bullett14, Justin John Mabie14, Neil Murphy15, Vassilis Angelopoulos16, Hannes Karl Leinweber17, Ivan Bernal16 and Peter J Chi18, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)Kochi University of Technology, School of Systems Engineering, Kami, Japan, (5)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (6)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (7)National Institute of Information and Communications Technolog, Koganei, Japan, (8)Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi, Japan, (9)University of Lancaster, Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (10)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (11)Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, (12)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (17)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (18)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
10:50
Midlatitude daytime wind measurements in the dynamo region with a sounding rocket chemical release technique (81550)
Miguel Folkmar Larsen, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
11:05
Measurements from the Daytime Dynamo Sounding Rocket missions: Altitude Profiles of Neutral Temperature, Density, Winds, and Con Composition (63758)
James H Clemmons1, Rebecca L Bishop2, Robert F Pfaff Jr3 and Douglas E. Rowland3, (1)Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, (2)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:20
Sq Currents and Neutral Winds (Invited) (84034)
Yosuke Yamazaki, University of Lancaster, Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom
11:35
Estimate of Low/Mid-Latitude Conductances, Electric Potential and Neutral Winds using IDA4D and EMPIRE (Invited) (80035)
Gary S Bust, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Brian Joseph Harding, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Roderick A Heelis, University Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States and Rebecca L Bishop, Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
12:05
Neutral Wind Observations below 200 km altitudes (86623)
Shigeto Watanabe1, Takumi Abe2, Hiroto Habu2, Yoshihiro Kakinami3, Miguel Folkmar Larsen4, Robert F Pfaff Jr5, Mamoru Yamamoto6 and Masayuki Yamamoto6, (1)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (2)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi, Japan, (4)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
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