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Session Proposal: Solar Wind’s Coupling with Magnetospheres and Ionospheres and Its Consequential Phenomena (AGU25)

SM027
Solar Wind’s Coupling with Magnetospheres and Ionospheres and Its Consequential Phenomena

Session ID#: 246637

Session Description:
Solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) power and drive the dynamics in the geospace and planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres in the solar system. Characteristics of the processes involved in the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling are essential to be studied to better understand how mass, momentum and energy are transferred between these regions. The consequences of the coupling are also vital to be investigated to fully understand all phenomena that are controlled by the solar wind conditions, such as the magnetosphere configuration, plasma convection, electric currents. This session welcomes presentations on recent advances in the solar wind-magnetosphere and/or ionosphere coupling, including the space environments of both Earth and other planets in the solar system. Also, presentations connecting various ionospheric and auroral phenomena with their magnetospheric counterparts/solar wind drivers and exploring coupling mechanisms are invited. Studies discussing space-based and/or ground-based observations as well as theoretical and/or modelling perspectives are highly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

2704 Auroral phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2756 Planetary magnetospheres [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2788 Magnetic storms and substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Timo Pitkänen, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China; Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Conveners:  Lauri Holappa, University of Oulu, Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit, Oulu, Finland, Lei Dai, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China and Ying Zou, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Comparative Dynamics of Substorms and Sawtooth Events (1852360)
Connor DiMarco1,2, Tuija I Pulkkinen1 and Michael G Henderson2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
 
Trials on decoding convection from substorm processes with MLT patterns of SMU-SML indices (1873152)
Shan Wang, Peking University, Institute of space physics and applied technology, Beijing, China, Lei Dai, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Chao Yue, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, Colin Forsyth, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, Christian Lao, University College London, Department of Space and Climate Physics, London, United Kingdom, Qiugang Zong, Peking University, Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Beijing, China, Chao Xiong, Wuhan University of Technology, Space Physics, Wuhan, China and Boyi Wang, HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
 
Dynamical Fourier decomposition of geomagnetic indices (1874871)
Evgeny Romashets1, Marek Vandas2, Sanjay Karki3, Tasmina Imam3 and Pranab Majumder4, (1)Lamar University, Physics, Beaumont, TX, United States, (2)Astronomical Institute Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, (3)Lamar University, Beaumont, United States, (4)FAU, Boca Raton,, United States
 
Investigating the Properties of Solar Wind Associated with Relativistic Electron Precipitation into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere (1874926)
Luisa Capannolo1, Yi-Ting Chen1, Wen Li2, Andrew Staff1, Nithin Sivadas3, Lauren W Blum4, Domenique Freund4, Sergio Vidal-Luengo5, Xiaochen Shen1, Murong Qin1, Qianli Ma6 and Longzhi Gan7, (1)Boston University, Boston, United States, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
 
Impact of Earth’s Weakening Magnetic Field on Geomagnetic Storm Response (1893457)
Amy Rewoldt1, Daniel T Welling1, Austin Brenner2, Pauline Marie Dredger1, Agnit Mukhopadhyay3 and Roxanne M Katus4, (1)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)MathWorks, Inc., Natick, United States, (4)Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, United States
 
Small-scale Magnetic Flux Ropes in the near-Earth Solar Wind: Statistics and Associated Geospace Responses (1903122)
Youra Shin1, Hyomin Kim2, Kyung-Eun Choi3, Hameedullah Farooki4, Sungjun Noh5 and Haimin Wang2, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, (4)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physics, Los Alamos, United States
 
Ionospheric Signatures of a Bursty Bulk Flow in the 6D Vlasiator Simulations (Invited) (1910623)
Abiyot Workayehu1, Minna Palmroth1,2, Maxime Grandin2, Liisa Juusola2, Markku Alho1, Ivan Zaitsev1, Venla Koikkalainen1, Konstantinos Horaites3, Yann Pfau-Kempf4, Urs Ganse1, Markus Batttarbee1 and Jonas Suni1, (1)University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (3)University of Colorado, Colorado, United States, (4)CSC – IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland
 
The Geomagnetic Response during Supersubstorms and What it Means for Geomagnetically Induced Currents at Mid-latitudes (1911832)
Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, Yukitoshi Nishimura, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Dr. James M Weygand, PhD, UCLA EPSS, Los Angeles, United States
 
Evidence that polar cap potential does not saturate with solar wind driving (1921248)
Nithin Sivadas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Maria-Theresia Walach, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom and Bayane Michotte de Welle, NASA GSFC 673, Greenbelt, United States
 
Global Hybrid Simulation of Simultaneous Magnetic Reconnection and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities at the Magnetopause with Associated Cusp Signatures (1921555)
Yu Lin1, Katariina Nykyri2, Xuanye Ma3, Jay Johnson4, Arthur Jean Hull5, Peter A Damiano6, Xueyi Wang1 and Mark L Adrian1, (1)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Laboratory, 673, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Piercing the Martian Veil: A Statistical Study of Interplanetary Magnetic Field Reach through Ionospheric Pressure Balance (Invited) (1926806)
Skylar R Shaver1, Laila Andersson2, Bhagyashree Waghule3, Robin Ramstad4, David A Brain5, Robert Lillis6, Thomas Cravens7, Jasper S Halekas8, Shaosui Xu9, Parker C Hinton4, David Malaspina10, Michael Warren Liemohn11, Stephen A Ledvina12, Jacob Gruesbeck13, Shannon Curry14, Dr. Katherine Goodrich15, Glyn Collinson16 and Christopher M Fowler17, (1)West Virgina University, Morgantown, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, San Francisco, United States, (7)University of Kansas, Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States, (9)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, (10)University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (12)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (13)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (14)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (15)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (16)NASA/GSFC, Washington, United States, (17)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States
 
Optimal GNSS LOS Selection for Detecting ULF Wave-driven TEC Disturbances at Mid-latitudes during Sudden Commencements (1929771)
Björn Bergsson1, Michael Hartinger2, Shantanab Debchoudhury1, Pavel Inchin3, Shibaji Chakraborty, PhD4 and Matthew D Zettergren5, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (5)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
 
Global Hybrid Simulation of Magnetospheric Cusp Ion Precipitation under High Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure during Geomagnetic Storms (1930479)
Xiaolei Li, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, UNITED STATES, Xueyi Wang, Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, AL, United States, Yongliang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Yu Lin, Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States
 
Quantifying the Connection Between the Solar Wind and Earth's Central Plasma Sheet Using THEMIS Observations (1937211)
Jose Espinoza, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Joseph Borovsky, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, United States
 
Ionospheric Current in the Martian Dayside from MAVEN Deep Dip Observations (1939306)
Junfeng Qin, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Shannon Curry, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Wenyi Sun, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Robert J Lillis, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Solar Wind impacts on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Current Systems Based on Multi-point Observations (1950399)
Dr. Ephrem Tesfaye Desta, PhD, North-West University, Center for Space Research and Addis Ababa University, Physics Department, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sanjay Kumar, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Mark B. Moldwin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Spectral Index Analysis of Martian Ionospheric Irregularities. (1952385)
Prathmesh Chougule, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Panvel, India, Bharati A Kakad, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, New Panvel, Navi Mumbai, India and Amar Kakad, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, New Panvel (W), Navi Mumbai, India
 
Constructing an Energy Transport Map from the Solar Wind to the Inner Magnetosphere (1958525)
Austin Brenner, Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Christian-Andrew Bagby-Wright, Independent Researcher, Arlington, United States and Tuija I Pulkkinen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
On the Fundamental Limit to Space Weather Prediction Accuracy (2002427)
Patricia H Reiff, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, Sanjay Chepuri, Rice University, Physics & Astronomy Dept, Houston, United States and Chloe Liebenthal, Scout Space, Washington, United States