SM51B:
Magnetotail Dynamic Processes: Recent Progress in Observations and Simulations II Posters

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Session ID#: 13094

Session Description:
The magnetotail is the major reservoir of the solar wind energy deposited to Earth’s magnetosphere, and the major arena of this energy’s conversion and transport. A significant amount of the conversion and transport (including mass and momentum transports) occurs during dynamic processes. Such processes include the dynamics of thin current sheets, transients (e.g., plasmoids and BBFs), turbulence, waves and their interaction with particles, etc. These processes can be triggered externally by solar wind/magnetosheath/magnetopause changes, or internally within the tail. The processes and their triggers differs dramatically at different tail distances. Due to the fundamental roles of the magnetotail in the entire magnetospheric energy budget, it is important to continuously improve our understanding of the tail dynamic processes. To achieve this goal, this session solicits new findings on the dynamics in the near-earth tail (<30 RE) and mid/distant tail (>30 RE). This session welcomes observations, theories, and numerical modeling/simulations.
Primary Convener:  Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jiang Liu1, Chih-Ping Wang1 and Yu Lin2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States(2)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States
Chairs:  Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Yu Lin, Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Index Terms:

2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2748 Magnetotail boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2788 Magnetic storms and substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Triggering of explosive reconnection in a thick current sheet by temperature anisotropy boosted tearing mode (171763)
Kenya Shimizu, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, United States; ISAS/JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan, Masaki Fujimoto, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan and Iku Shinohara, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Triggering of explosive reconnection in a thick current sheet via current sheet compression: Less current sheet thinning, more temperature anisotropy (173582)
Iku Shinohara, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, Kenya Shimizu, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, United States and Masaki Fujimoto, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Pre-reconnection: Plasma motions preconditioning the magnetotail for topology change (161391)
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
Turbulence and Reconnection: an analysis of turbulence generated by instabilities in reconnection outflows (135108)
Giovanni Lapenta1, Sergio Servidio2, Francesco Pucci3 and Diego Gonzalez-Herrero3, (1)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (2)Università della Calabria, Department of Physics, Rende, Italy, (3)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Three-Dimensional Development of Front Region of Plasma Jets Generated By Magnetic Reconnection (141568)
Takuma Nakamura1, Rumi Nakamura1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Takayuki Umeda2 and Iku Shinohara3, (1)Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Oxygen Ions in Magnetotail Reconnection (166293)
Haoming Liang1, Raymond J Walker2, Giovanni Lapenta3, David Schriver1, Mostafa El-Alaoui4 and Jean Berchem1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Electron acceleration by dipolarization fronts and magnetic reconnection: A quantitative comparison (127567)
Huishan Fu1, Yin Xu1, Chengming Liu2 and Xinge Sun1, (1)Beihang University, School of Space and Environment, Beijing, China, (2)Beihang University, Beijing, China
Particle injections associated with magnetotail dipolarizations (126316)
Konstantin Kabin1, German A Kalugin1, Eric Donovan2 and Emma Spanswick2, (1)Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Current Density Reduction Ahead of Dipolarization Fronts (145276)
San Lu, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Quanming Lu, University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Hefei, China and Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Characteristics of High Latitude Precursor Flows Ahead of Dipolarization Fronts (123477)
Jia-Zheng Li1, Xuzhi Zhou2, Vassilis Angelopoulos3, Jiang Liu2, Andrei Runov4, Dongxiao Pan1 and Qiugang Zong1, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Towards a qualitative understanding of Dipolarization Fronts: MHD Simulations and THEMIS Observations (125907)
Dennis Fruehauff, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Institute of Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
THEMIS observations of waves near dipolarization fronts (165710)
Xu Zhang, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Determination of Flux rope axis for GS reconstruction (132671)
Anmin Tian1, Quanqi Shi1, Shichen Bai1 and Shuai Zhang2, (1)Shandong University at Weihai, Institute of Space Science, Weihai, China, (2)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China
Influence of Fast Flows in the Magnetotail on Dst as Simulated by the OpenGGCM-RCM Coupled Model (148082)
William D Cramer, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Frank Toffoletto, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States
Statistical evaluation of substorm strength and onset times in a global MHD model (131459)
John David Haiducek, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel T Welling, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Steven Morley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States and Natalia Y Ganushkina, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Turbulence in the Plasma Sheet and its Role in Transport in a Coupled Fluid-Kinetic Simulation (156056)
Mostafa El-Alaoui1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Robert L Richard3, Jean Berchem4, Raymond J Walker5 and Haoming Liang4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Solar Wind Driven Variations of Electron Plasma Sheet Parameters Beyond Geostationary Orbit During Storm Times (127443)
Natalia Y Ganushkina1,2, Stepan Dubyagin2 and Andrei Runov3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Shear Alfven wave model of the magnetotail flapping motions (194230)
Jiansheng Yao1, Chao Shen2 and Li Yi1, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
A THEMIS Case Study of Pi2 Pulsations in the Magnetotail and on the Ground Before a Substorm Onset (170193)
Yukinaga Miyashita1, Vassilis Angelopoulos2, Yasutaka Hiraki3, Akimasa Ieda1 and Shinobu Machida4, (1)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Electro-Communications, Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, Chofu, Japan, (4)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan
Statistical study of ULF waves in the night side magnetosphere by THEMIS observations (169868)
Shuai Zhang1, Anmin Tian2, Quanqi Shi2 and Hanlin Li1, (1)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (2)Shandong University at Weihai, Institute of Space Science, Weihai, China
Current sheet thinning in the near-Earth magnetotail (131641)
Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Anatoli A Petrukovich, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Stable and disturbed thin current sheet in the Earth’s mid-tail: ARTEMIS observations (141046)
Chih-Ping Wang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fast flow statistic in the Earth's magnetotail near lunar orbit (157079)
Stefan Kiehas, Space Research Institute, Graz-St Peter, Austria, Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Heli Hietala, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Wave and Particle Characters behind Antidipolarization Front in the distant Magnetotail (156883)
Duo Zhao1,2, Suiyan Fu1, George K Parks3, Qiugang Zong1 and Weijie Sun4, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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