SA42A:
Atmosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere (AIM) Coupling Phenomena and Processes: New Observations and Understanding I

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Session ID#: 18255

Session Description:
Deployment of multiple instruments worldwide in recent years, such as lidars, imagers and FPIs for the neutral atmosphere, radars, ionosondes and GPS for the ionosphere, and magnetometer chains and satellites for the magnetosphere, have led to unprecedented observations of the neutral atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere (AIM) with clusters and coordinated efforts. For example, lidars, FPIs and imagers have recently observed neutral metal layers, temperature inversions, large vertical winds, and persistent waves at thermospheric altitudes. These phenomena are potentially driven by metal ion transport and Joule heating due to magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) coupling, along with terrestrial waves from below; radars, magnetometers, and satellites can monitor these MI phenomena. This provides unique opportunities to connect plasma-neutral coupling research with MI coupling studies, thus enabling this AIM coupling session co-organized by SPA-Aeronomy and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics.  We invite presentations using multi-instrument observations and models spanning the AIM system to gain new perspectives on coupling processes.
Primary Convener:  Xinzhao Chu, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Michael Hartinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Zhonghua Xu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States and Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Michael Hartinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Xinzhao Chu, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States and Zhonghua Xu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael Hartinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Magnetospheric Physics, and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0358 Thermosphere: energy deposition [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Observational evidence for new instabilities in the mid-latitude E and F region (Invited) (123657)
David L Hysell, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Miguel Folkmar Larsen, Clemson University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson, SC, United States and Michael P Sulzer, Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR, United States
Influence of geomagnetic energy inputs in the polar cap on the upper atmosphere during geomagnetic storms (Invited) (123518)
Yue Deng1, Cheng Sheng2, Yanshi Huang3, Astrid I Maute4 and Yang Lu1, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States
Middle-Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities and Their Relationships with the Ring Current and Auroral Oval Expansion during Geomagnetic Storms (135727)
Xiaoqing Pi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Anthony J Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Yongliang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
The effects of auroral precipitation on atmospheric nitric oxide concentration (181042)
Sarah Jones1, Marc Lessard2 and Bruce Fritz2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Thermosphere-Ionosphere Fe/Fe+ (TIFe) Layers and Their Coupling with Geomagnetic Storms and Solar Wind (127991)
Xinzhao Chu1, Zhonghua Xu2, Jian Zhao3, Zhibin Yu4, Delores Knipp5, Liam M Kilcommons6, Cao Chen7, Weichun Fong8, Ian F Barry8 and Michael Hartinger9, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (3)CIRES, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Data in Dynamic Auroral Boundary Coordinates: New insights into Polar Cap and Auroral Dynamics (145998)
Delores Knipp, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Influence of Solar Irradiance on Polar Ionospheric Convection (173043)
Angeline G Burrell1, Timothy K Yeoman2, Milan Stephen2 and Mark Lester1, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leicester, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom
The Role of the Upper Atmosphere for Dawn-Dusk and Interhemispheric Differences in the Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System (138735)
Matthias Foerster, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Eelco Doornbos, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Aerospace Engineering, De Bilt, Netherlands and Stein Haaland, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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