Pre-reconnection: Plasma motions preconditioning the magnetotail for topology change
Mikhail I. Sitnov, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Tetsuo Motoba, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States and Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
