SM11A:
A Century of Ring Current Investigations: The Quest to Predict It I Posters

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Session ID#: 12509

Session Description:
The Earth’s inner magnetosphere is a highly dynamic system, coupled through a complex set of physical processes to the outer magnetosphere and the ionosphere. The largest variations in the inner magnetospheric plasma and fields occur during geomagnetic storms and are related to the intensification of the ring current, the magnetically trapped charged particles circling Earth mostly inside geosynchronous orbit. The mechanisms for particle injection in this space environment and their subsequent trapping or loss have been studied for many years; however, their theoretical evaluation and implementation in numerical models predicting the creation and demise of the ring current remain challenging. Measurements from past and on-going space missions such as, Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, Cluster, and others are of extreme importance for probing the inner magnetosphere. This session invites papers that fill the gaps in our understanding of ring current dynamics as part of the highly coupled inner magnetosphere system.
Primary Convener:  Vania K Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States and Colin M Komar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Colin M Komar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Vania K Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2778 Ring current [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2788 Magnetic storms and substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The impact of the substorm-time O+ outflow on the ring current enhancement (146528)
Yohei Nakayama, RISH Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Yusuke Ebihara, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Takashi Tanaka, Kyushu University, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka, Japan
He+ Control by Bounce Frequency ULF Waves (153310)
Hyomin Kim1, Andrew J Gerrard2, Louis J Lanzerotti2, A. Soto-Chavez2, Ross Joseph Cohen3, Jerry Wayne Manweiler4 and Craig Kletzing5, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (3)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Edison, NJ, United States, (4)Fundamental Technologies, LLC, Lawrence, KS, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States
Modeling the near-Earth interaction between ring current ions and exospheric neutrals: escape through energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) (153880)
Kristie LLera1, Jerry Goldstein2, David J McComas3 and Philip W Valek2, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Physics & Astronomy, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Princeton University, Office of the VP for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Oxygen energization and loss during the main phase of the 17 March 2015 storm: Van Allen Probes observations (156276)
Kunihiro Keika1, Yoshizumi Miyoshi2, Masahito Nose3, Shinobu Machida4, Kanako Seki5, Louis J Lanzerotti6, Donald G Mitchell7, Matina Gkioulidou7, Andrew J Gerrard6, Jerry Wayne Manweiler8, Harlan E Spence9 and Brian Larsen10, (1)University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, (3)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (4)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan, (5)University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (6)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)Fundamental Technologies, LLC, Lawrence, KS, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (10)The New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States
The role of inductive electric fields in the ring current enhancement during the March 17th, 2013 geomagnetic storm (161708)
Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, Gabor Toth, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Anthony Arthur Chan, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States
Energetic Particle Hybrid Simulations for Kinetic Ring Current Dynamics (157074)
Takanobu Amano, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and Kanako Seki, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Ring Current Modeling of the March 2013 Storm with RAM-SCB (132486)
Vania K Jordanova1, Christopher Andrew Jeffery1, Gian Luca Delzanno1, Michael G Henderson1, Jay Albert2, Wen Li3, Qianli Ma3, Jacob Bortnik3 and Richard M Thorne3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
High beta plasma observations in Earth’s Ring Current: Waves and particle oscillations, and drift-mirror instability. (160678)
A Rualdo Soto Chavez1, Louis J Lanzerotti2, Ross Joseph Cohen3, Andrew J Gerrard2, Jerry Wayne Manweiler4 and Hyomin Kim5, (1)Syntek Technologies, Inc, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (3)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Edison, NJ, United States, (4)Fundamental Technologies, LLC, Lawrence, KS, United States, (5)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States
RBSPICE Observations of the March 17, 2015 Geomagnetic Storm (163561)
John Martens, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Jerry Wayne Manweiler, Fundamental Technologies, LLC, Lawrence, KS, United States
Particle tracing modeling of ion fluxes at geosynchronous orbit during substorms (165899)
Thiago V Brito1, Vania K Jordanova1, Jesse R Woodroffe1, Michael G Henderson1, Steven Morley2 and Joachim Birn3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Observation of the March 17, 2016 Solar Storm in the Inner Magnetosphere by the Van Allen Probes RBSPICE Instrument. (170796)
Jerry Wayne Manweiler1, Andrew J Gerrard2, J. Douglas Patterson1, John Martens3, Rebekah M Manweiler1, Donald G Mitchell4 and Louis J Lanzerotti2, (1)Fundamental Technologies, LLC, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
The Role of Convection in the Buildup of the Ring Current Pressure during the March 17, 2013 Storm (179161)
Andrew Menz1, Lynn M Kistler2, Christopher Mouikis2, Harlan E Spence2, Ruth M. Skoug3, Herbert O Funsten4, Brian Larsen5, Donald G Mitchell6, Matina Gkioulidou6 and Louis J Lanzerotti7, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-DO, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)The New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
The effect of ring current electron scattering rates on M-I coupling (188343)
Nicholas J Perlongo, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Aaron J Ridley, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Roxanne M Katus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Driving Magnetospheric Energy Density with Alfvén waves (192067)
Christopher Carew Chaston, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
The Storm Time Ring Current Dynamics and Response to CMEs and CIRs Using Van Allen Probes Observations and CIMI Simulations (196381)
Sam Bingham1, Christopher Mouikis2, Lynn M Kistler2, Mei-Ching Hannah Fok3, Alex Glocer4, Charles J Farrugia5, Matina Gkioulidou6 and Harlan E Spence2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States

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