SM51E
Plasma Sheet Processes and Magnetotail Origins of Auroral Morphology II Posters

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
Conveners:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
Chairs:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
OSPA Liaisons:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
Substorm Simulation: Insight Into the Mechanisms of Initial Brightening and Westward Traveling Surge (59709)
Yusuke Ebihara, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Takashi Tanaka, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Electrostatic drift waves in a 2D magnetic current sheet - a new kinetic theory (61867)
Gabriel Fruit, Philippe Louarn and Anatoly Tur, IRAP, Toulouse, France
 
All-sky imager observations near footprints of plasma sheet waves with kinetic ballooning-interchange signatures (64365)
Evgeny V Panov1, Rumi Nakamura2, Victor A Sergeev3, Wolfgang Baumjohann1 and Marina V Kubyshkina4, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (3)St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia, (4)St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
 
Statistical comparison of inter-substorm timings in global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and observations (65149)
John David Haiducek1, Daniel T Welling2, Steven Morley3 and Dogacan Su Ozturk2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Development of the Near-Earth Magnetotail and the Auroral Arc Associated with Substorm Onset: Evidence for a New Model (65555)
Yukinaga Miyashita1,2, Yasutaka Hiraki3, Vassilis Angelopoulos1, Akimasa Ieda2 and Shinobu Machida2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (3)University of Electro-Communications, Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, Chofu, Japan
 
Simulating the Thinning Magnetotail Current Sheet During a Substorm Growth Phase with the Rice Convection Model-Equilibrium (65659)
Colby L Lemon1, Chris E Crabtree2, Margaret Chen1 and Timothy B Guild3, (1)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA, United States
 
The Harang Reversal and the Interchange Stability of the Magnetotail (67863)
Shinichi Ohtani1, Matina Gkioulidou1, Chih-Ping Wang2 and Richard Wolf3, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
An Intrinsically Three-Dimensional Reconnection Process in Near-Earth Plasma Sheet* (70815)
Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
 
High current density observations in the near-Earth plasma sheet (78566)
Miho Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan