SM13D
The Role of Magnetotail Transients in Magnetospheric Dynamics: Recent Progress in Observations and Simulations I Posters

Monday, 14 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
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:  Huishan Fu, Beihang University, Space Science Institute, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China, Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Joachim Birn, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
 
Role of dayside transients in a substorm process: Results from the global kinetic simulation Vlasiator (72346)
Minna Palmroth1, Sanni Hoilijoki1, Yann Pfau-Kempf1, Heli Hietala2, Yukitoshi Nishimura3, Vassilis Angelopoulos4, Tuija I Pulkkinen5, Urs Ganse6, Otto Hannuksela7, Sebastian von Alfthan8, Markus C Battarbee9 and Rami O Vainio9, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Aalto University, Aalto, Finland, (6)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (7)University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland, (8)CSC Centre for Scientific Computing, Espoo, Finland, (9)University of Turku, Turku, Finland
 
On the impact of fluctuations on the magnetotail reconnection (73974)
Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Andrew P Dimmock, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland and Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The effect of kinetic-ballooning instability on substorm onset. (83120)
Peter Porazik, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jay Johnson, Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratiry, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
 
Statistical Analysis of Severe Magnetic Fluctuations in the near-Earth Magnetotail Observed by THEMIS-E (72073)
Heqiucen Xu1, Kazuo Shiokawa1 and Dennis Fruehauff2, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
 
Dipolarization fronts as earthward propagating flux ropes: A three-dimensional global hybrid simulation (66664)
San Lu1, Quanming Lu2, Yu Lin3, Xueyi Wang4, Yasong Ge5, Rongsheng Wang1, Meng Zhou6, Huishan Fu7, Can Huang1, Mingyu Wu1 and Shui Wang1, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (3)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States, (4)Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, United States, (5)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (7)Beihang University, Space Science Institute, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China
 
A Numerical Simulation of Impulses in the Magnetosphere Associated with Substorms: OpenGGCM Result (63909)
Banafsheh Ferdousi and Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
Magnetotail flux accumulation leading to auroral expansion and a substorm current wedge: case study (66522)
Xiangning Chu1, Robert L McPherron1, Tung-Shin Hsu1, Vassilis Angelopoulos2, James M Weygand1, Robert J Strangeway1 and Jiang Liu1, (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
 
 
Propagation and Damping of Kinetic Alfven Waves Generated During Magnetic Reconnection (84242)
Prayash Sharma, University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
 
On the generation of magnetic dips ahead of advancing dipolarization fronts (68570)
Dongxiao Pan1, Xuzhi Zhou2, Quanqi Shi3, Jiang Liu2, Vassilis Angelopoulos4, Andrei Runov2, Qiugang Zong1 and Suiyan Fu1, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Ion Beams in the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer (74857)
Joachim Birn1, Michael Hesse2, Andrei Runov3 and Xuzhi Zhou3, (1)Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Electromagnetic energy conversion at dipolarization fronts: Multi-spacecraft results (61569)
Shiyong Huang1, Huishan Fu2, Zhigang Yuan1, Meng Zhou3, Song Fu4, Xiaohua Deng3, Weijie Sun5, Ye Pang3, Dedong Wang6, Huimin Li7, Haimeng Li4 and Xiongdong Yu4, (1)Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, (2)Beihang University, Space Science Institute, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China, (3)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (4)Wuhan University, Electronic Information School, Wuhan, China, (5)School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, (7)School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xi'an, China
 
Multi-point Observations and Modeling of Particle Injections During Substorms (84268)
Michael G Henderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Electron Acceleration in the Magnetotail during Substorms in Semi-Global PIC Simulations (76436)
Robert L Richard1, David Schriver1, Maha Ashour-Abdalla1, Mostafa El-Alaoui2, Giovanni Lapenta3 and Raymond J Walker4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
High-energy ions produced by two approaching flow fronts in the magnetotail (67814)
Hirotoshi Uchino1,2, Akimasa Ieda3, Shinobu Machida3 and Shinsuke Imada2, (1)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Possible current sheet flapping motion and periodic particle flux enhancements observed during the Galaxy 15 spacecraft anomaly (67375)
Paul T M Loto'aniu, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Relative Contributions of Ring Current Plasma Transport Mechanisms in the Magnetotail (65312)
William D Cramer1, Joachim Raeder1 and Frank Toffoletto2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
Energy Dissipation and Transport Associated with Whistler-wave Generation during Plasma Jet Events using MMS Data (82115)
Hugo Breuillard, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France
 
Flow channel dynamics in the Magnetotail – Simulations and multi-spacecraft analyses from THEMIS observations (68915)
Dennis Fruehauff1, Martin Volwerk2 and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier1, (1)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (2)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
 
Electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves related to Dipolarization front (81867)
Xu Zhang, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Plasmasphere pulsations observed simultaneously by midlatitude SuperDARN radars, ground magnetometers and THEMIS spacecraft during an auroral substorm (77015)
Xueling Shi1, Joseph B. H. Baker1, J. Michael Ruohoniemi2, Nathaniel A Frissell1, Michael Hartinger1, Evan G Thomas1 and Jiang Liu3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States