SPA41A:
Earth's Plasmasphere: Feeding, Dynamics, and Coupling Processes I

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Session ID#: 6837

Session Description:
Earth's inner magnetosphere is a dynamical system strongly controlled by interactions with the solar wind. In particular, plasmaspheric ion and electron populations continuously interact with the populations of the radiation belts, ring current, and ionosphere, through various processes such as electromagnetic fields, currents, density structures and wave-particle interactions. Datasets from recent missions such as ESA's SWARM and NASA's Van Allen Probes, as well as from Cluster's Inner Magnetosphere Campaign (July-October 2013), continue to help us understand these processes. This session is devoted to gaining a better understanding of the coupling of the plasmasphere with the ionosphere, ring current and radiation belts, in order to provide insight into how geomagnetic disturbances propagate through and modify the different populations present within. Multi-point observations and statistical surveys using different datasets (ground-based and in-situ) and modelling efforts are encouraged. Work in preparation for future inner magnetosphere missions (e.g., ORBITALS, ERG) is also welcome.
OSPA Liaison:  Fabien Darrouzet, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Chairs:  Fabien Darrouzet, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium and Maria Usanova, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  Fabien Darrouzet, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Conveners:  Jerry Goldstein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Kirthika Mohan, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom and Maria Usanova, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Index Terms:

2730 Magnetosphere: inner [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2768 Plasmasphere [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2774 Radiation belts [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SPA41A-01
Global Plasmaspheric Electron Density Simulations of Pre-dawn and Post-dusk Geomagnetic Events Observed by the Van Allen Probes (Invited) (34347)
Sebastian De Pascuale, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Vania K Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Jerry Goldstein, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States and Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States
SPA41A-02
Long-Lived Plasmaspheric Drainage Plumes and the Plasma-Source Dilemma (Invited) (34500)
Joseph Borovsky1, Daniel T Welling2, Michelle F Thomsen3 and Michael Denton1, (1)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Climate and Space Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, AZ, United States
SPA41A-03
Plasmasphere refilling rates as deduced from Ukraine incoherent scatter radar data by FLIP simulation for the last solar minimum (36399)
Dmytro V. Kotov1, Philip G Richards2, Vladimir Truhlik3, Stanimir Stankov4, Oleksandr V. Bogomaz1, Leonid Chernogor5 and Igor F. Domnin1, (1)Institute for Near-Earth Space Research, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Kharkiv, Ukraine, (2)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (3)Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, (4)Royal Meteorological Institute, Dourbes, Belgium, (5)Institute of Ionosphere, Kharkiv, Ukraine
SPA41A-04
The global distribution, energy source, and scattering effects of magnetosphic waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere (Invited) (35319)
Qianli Ma1, Wen Li2, Richard M Thorne2 and Jacob Bortnik2, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
SPA41A-05
Control of Energetic Ring Current Ion Spectra by EMIC Waves (34550)
Danny Summers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada and Run Shi, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dept of Math and Stats, St John's, NL, Canada
SPA41A-06
The Relation of Chorus, Hiss and the Plasmasphere (Invited) (33962)
Jacob Bortnik, Wen Li and Richard M Thorne, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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