SM51E:
Plasma Dynamics in the Nightside Transition Region II Posters


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Session ID#: 44653

Session Description:
The night-side transition region in the Earth's magnetosphere is where the magnetic topology transitions from a stretched tail-like configuration to a more dipole-like magnetic field. This region hosts important plasma dynamics that impact the flow of energy and mass into the inner magnetosphere and it plays a critical role in the initiation and evolution of near-Earth plasma instabilities that can lead to system-wide effects. Despite its obvious importance in the coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere system, it remains a poorly understood region – primarily due to its time-dependent non-linear mapping to the ionosphere together with limited availability of simultaneous in-situ measurements. New observational capabilities (current and planned) are targeted at providing a wealth of information about key aspects of this region. We invite papers that aim to elucidate the dynamics of plasma processes in this region either through the use of auroral processes or constellations of detailed in-situ measurements, theory and modeling.
Primary Convener:  Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Conveners:  D. Megan Gillies, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada, Shasha Zou, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Michael G Henderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Chairs:  D. Megan Gillies, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada and Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Index Terms:

2704 Auroral phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2794 Instruments and techniques [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

On the origin and geomagnetic conditions of STEVE’s formation (353070)
Bea Gallardo-Lacourt1, Jun Liang2, Yukitoshi Nishimura3, Eric Donovan1, D. Megan Gillies4, Gareth William Perry1, William Edward Archer5, Omar Nava6 and Emma Spanswick1, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada, (5)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (6)Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, United States
Energy transport in the plasma sheet under different IMF Bz conditions (359203)
Ganming Ren, Jinbin Cao and Jian Yang, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Using GOES Magnetometer Data to Quantify the Error in Magnetic Field Models Near Geostationary Orbit (462141)
Kelly Sullivan, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Samuel Califf, NOAA Boulder, Solar Terrestrial Physics, Boulder, United States
Akasofu's Auroral "Symphony" (467557)
Francisco Muller, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
Substorm Prediction Using The WINDMI Model (441017)
Pavithra Ganesh Srinivas, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, Edmund A Spencer, University of South Alabama, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mobile, AL, United States and Wendell Horton Jr, University of Texas at Austin, IFS and the Applied Research Laboratory, Austin, TX, United States
Substorm Onset from Sheared Zonal Flow Vortices and Interchange Dynamics (416885)
Jason Derr, US Military Academy, Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, West Point, United States, Wendell Horton Jr, University of Texas at Austin, IFS and the Applied Research Laboratory, Austin, TX, United States and Richard Wolf, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States
Comparing the Outflow of O+ during SIR and CME Sawtooth events with re-calibrated FAST/TEAMS Data (398193)
Niloufar Nowrouzi1, Lynn M Kistler2, Eric J Lund1 and Kai Lv Zhao Sr3, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Current Sheet Stability Influenced by the Total Pressure (372745)
Stefan Kiehas, Space Research Institute, Graz-St Peter, Austria, Daniil Korovinskiy, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, V S Semenov, Saint Petersburg State University, Earth's Physics Department, Saint Petersburg, Russia and Nikolai Erkaev, Institute of Computational Modelling, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Two-fluid ballooning instability induced plasmoid formation in near-Earth magnetotail (384060)
Ping Zhu1,2 and Zechen Wang1, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Ballooning instability in the transition region in conjunction with non-substorm auroral wave structures (395930)
Xiaoyan Xing, XS Research, Irvine, CA, United States, Chih-Ping Wang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jun Liang, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Magnetospheric conditions associated with STEVE (434585)
Burcu Kosar1,2, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt3, Elizabeth MacDonald1, Lauren W Blum1, David G Sibeck4 and Mei-Ching Hannah Fok5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)The Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows (462773)
Lei Cheng1, Yu Lin2, Xueyi Wang1, Jay Johnson3, Joseph D Perez1, Feng Shi1 and Zhifang Guo1, (1)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States, (3)Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States

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