Heliospheric Plasma Sheet (HPS) Impingement onto the Magnetosphere Causing Relativistic Electron Dropouts (REDs): Possible Consequences for Atmospheric Vorticity

Bruce Tsurutani1, Rajkumar Hajra2, Toru Tanimori3, Atsushi Takada3, Dr. Remya Bhanu, PhD4, Anthony J Mannucci5, Gurbax Singh Lakhina6, Janet Kozyra7, Kazuo Shiokawa8, Lou-Chuang Lee9, Ezequiel Echer10, Virupakshi Reddy11 and Walter Gonzalez10, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Inst Nac Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Navi Mumbai, India, (7)National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, United States, (8)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (9)Institute of Earth Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (10)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (11)Indian Institute Geomagnetism, New Panvel (W), Navi, India
Scientific Team Name: Relativistic Electron Decrease (RED) Team