SM41A:
Geospace Research from Polar Environments I


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Session ID#: 60867

Session Description:
The uniqueness of polar regions for conducting geospace research has been acknowledged for decades.  This is because instrumentation located at high-latitudes allows access to a natural laboratory for studying the Earth’s atmosphere, its space environment, and solar-generated interplanetary structures.  Such research may include, but not limited to, the study of aurora, induced electrical currents, geomagnetic fields, ionospheric electrodynamics, ion-neutral coupling, temperature and winds in the neutral atmosphere, and atmospheric waves, all of which improve our understanding of the mechanisms which couple solar and interplanetary processes to the terrestrial environment.  This session solicits papers on recent advances in space physics, aeronomy and space weather focusing on the polar regions.  Studies discussing conjugate aspects of geospace phenomena in both hemispheres and incorporating polar observations in the global context are highly encouraged due to the advancement in these fields in recent years.
Primary Convener:  Hyomin Kim, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Robert L Lysak, University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States and Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hyomin Kim, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Hyomin Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Robert L Lysak, University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States and Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Magnetospheric Physics, and SPA-Aeronomy

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • AE - Atmospheric and Space Electricity
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2704 Auroral phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2776 Polar cap phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling Metal Ions and Sporadic E in the Polar Cap with SAMI3 (Invited) (360325)
Joseph Huba, US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States
Simultaneous Observations of Thermosphere-Ionosphere Fe and Na (TIFe and TINa) Layers, Mesospheric Fe and Na Layers, and Gravity Waves with Na Doppler and Fe Boltzmann Lidars over McMurdo, Antarctica (418521)
Xinzhao Chu1, Dongming Chang2, Jian Zhao2, Ian Geraghty3, Zhibin Yu2,4, Zhangjun Wang5, Chester S. Gardner6, John M C Plane7 and Adrian McDonald8, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, (5)Qilu University of Technology, Institute of Oceanographic Instrumentation, Qingdao, China, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - UIUC, Urbana, United States, (7)University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, United Kingdom, (8)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
How well are interhemispheric asymmetries in ionospheric potential reproduced in global MHD models? (359588)
Therese Moretto Jorgensen1, Michael Hesse2, Susanne Vennerstrom3, Paul Tenfjord2, Maria M Kuznetsova4 and Lutz Rastaetter4, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (3)National Space Institute, DTU, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Meso-scale auroras observed at South Pole Station and McMurdo Station (Invited) (389225)
Yusuke Ebihara, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Tetsuo Motoba, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, Yasunobu Ogawa, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, Akira Kadokura, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Tokyo, Japan and Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
High-Latitude Ionospheric Scintillation - From Understanding to Modeling/Mitigation. (Invited) (359750)
Periyadan T Jayachandran, University of New Brunswick, Department of Physics, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Impact of Sudden Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure Variations on the Geospace System (Invited) (434433)
Shasha Zou1, Dogacan Su Ozturk2, Thomas Coppeans3, Jiaen Ren4, Zihan Wang4 and Aaron J Ridley5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Trajectories of air parcel transport driven by thermospheric winds reconstructed using ground-based Fabry-Perot observations from Alaska and Antarctica (426084)
Mark Conde1, John Elliott1, Kylee Branning2 and Rajan Itani2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
Model and Data Analysis of Storm Enhanced Density/Tongue of Ionization events in the Arctic and Antarctic during Solar Cycle 24 (447978)
Anthea Coster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, Joseph Huba, US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States and Evan G Thomas, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States

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