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Session Proposal: Global and Micro-Scale Consequences of Mesoscale Magnetotail Dynamics (AGU25)

SM009
Global and Micro-Scale Consequences of Mesoscale Magnetotail Dynamics

Session ID#: 248593

Session Description:
Much of the plasma and magnetic flux transport in the magnetotail occurs in the form of transient flow enhancements. They carry significant northward magnetic field intensifications and may cumulatively account for a large portion of the entire earthward flux transport. This alone makes them fundamentally important elementary building blocks of magnetospheric dynamics. These mesoscale structures also play a significant role in the energization of plasma sheet particles, the build-up of the ring current and radiation belts, current generation, kinetic wave generation and particle scattering. Additionally, they mediate magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling through associated mesoscale auroral forms and energy deposition from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. It is thus important to characterize both global and micro-scale consequences of these mesoscale dynamics. This session solicits contributions using in situ and/or ground-based observations along with theory and global or regional models that incorporate mesoscale processes to examine their impacts.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2788 Magnetic storms and substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Adam Michael, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Anthony Sciola, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
 
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Hava Turkakin1, Ian Robert Mann2, Andrei Runov3 and Robert Rankin2, (1)Utica University, Department of Physics, Utica, United States, (2)University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Partition of Energy Flux Transport at Bursty Bulk Flows (1861698)
Sanjay Chepuri, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Patricia H Reiff, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, Allison N Jaynes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Drew L. Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States, Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Ian J Cohen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Dan N Baker, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Trevor W Leonard, CIRES, Boulder, United States
 
Machine Learning Application to Bursty Bulk Flow Identifications (1869777)
Brendan Powers, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States, Allison N Jaynes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Sanjay Chepuri, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
Statistical Study of Interhemispheric Asymmetries in Field-Aligned Currents During Bursty Bulk Flows (1877497)
Vanina Lanabere, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, Andrew P Dimmock, IRF, Uppsala, Sweden, Stephan C Buchert, Swedish Inst of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, Octav Marghitu, Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania and Adrian Blagau, Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
 
Link between mesoscale auroral streamers and geosynchronous dispersionless injections (1891316)
Tetsuo Motoba and Shinichi Ohtani, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States
 
Comparing Field-of-view and Equatorial Projections of Mesoscale Features in TWINS Energetic Neutral Atom Observations (1892130)
Meredith Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Joel Tibbetts, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States and Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States
 
Statistical Analysis of Stormtime Bursty Bulk Flows (1892170)
Anusree Devanandan1, Amy M Keesee2, Savvas Raptis3, Shinichi Ohtani3, Viacheslav G Merkin3 and Matina Gkioulidou4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States
 
Connection of Equatorward-Extending Auroral Streamers and Their Ground Magnetic Depressions to Radiation Belt Injections (1892419)
Larry R Lyons1, Sneha Yadav2, Hee-Jeong Kim3, Sheng Tian1, Jiang Liu4, Yukitoshi Nishimura5, Ying Zou6, Vassilis Angelopoulos7 and Eric Donovan8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (6)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
HyENA: An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for Hypothetical Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging (1892653)
Joel Tibbetts, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, Matina Gkioulidou, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Robert DeMajistre, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States
 
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Sina Sadeghzadeh1, Frank Toffoletto1 and Richard Wolf2, (1)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States
 
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Evgeny V Panov1, Marina V Kubyshkina2, Victor A Sergeev3, Elena Grigorenko4, Andrey Malykhin5, Rumi Nakamura1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1 and Larry J Paxton6, (1)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (2)St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (3)St Petersburg State Univ, St Petersburg, Russia, (4)Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia, (5)Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (6)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
 
The Influence of the Ring current/Plasmasphere System on the Growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Earth's Dayside Magnetopause (1911623)
Guillaume Peyrichon1, Jean-Francois Ripoll1,2, Hazem El-Rabii3, Adam Michael4, Viacheslav G Merkin5, Mélanie Cosmides1, Kareem Sorathia4, Frank Toffoletto6 and Aleksandr Ukhorskiy4, (1)CEA/DAM- ILE DE FRANCE, DIF, Arpajon, France, (2)UPS, CEA, LMCE, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France, (3)Institut Pprime, UPR 3346 CNRS, Poitiers, France, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States
 
Improving Analysis of Dipolarization Events With Inductive, Radial Electric Fields in the Inner Magnetosphere (1916124)
Hiroshi Matsui1, Tyler Metivier2, Charles J Farrugia2 and Roy B Torbert2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
 
Stormtime Magnetospheric Processes Associated with the Dawnside Current Wedge (1917073)
Shinichi Ohtani1, Savvas Raptis2, Anusree Devanandan3, Tetsuo Motoba4, Ying Zou5, Jesper W Gjerloev6 and Viacheslav G Merkin1, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, (5)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
 
Global Hall MHD Simulations of the Earth’s Magnetosphere (1921682)
Viacheslav G Merkin1, John Lyon2, Kareem Sorathia3, Harry Arnold3 and Jeffrey Garretson4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University, APL, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Quantifying the Impact of Meso-scale Flow Channels on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Sequences (Invited) (1925651)
Katherine Davidson1, Yukitoshi Nishimura1, Larry R Lyons2, Eric Donovan3, Vassilis Angelopoulos4 and Nozomu Nishitani5, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Formation of Auroral Omega Bands Driven by Plasma Transport Flows (1929299)
Shanshan Bao1, Jiang Liu2, Frank Toffoletto1, Kareem Sorathia3, Viacheslav G Merkin4, Dong Lin5 and Michael James Wiltberger6, (1)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
On Recurrent Substorms And Their Dependence on Magnetospheric Conditions. (1933085)
Edmund A Spencer, University of South Alabama, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mobile, AL, United States, Purbi Adhya, Spring Hill College, Physics, Mobile, United States and Piyas Chowdhury, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States
 
Mesoscale Auroral Dynamics in the Nightside Transition Region: A Ground-Based Study of Giant Undulations (1935685)
Bea Gallardo-Lacourt1, Larry Kepko2, Emma Spanswick3 and Eric Donovan3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
The Role of Mesoscale Convection in Transport and Acceleration of Ring Current and Radiation Belt Particles (1953112)
Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy1, Adam Michael2, Kareem Sorathia2, Viacheslav G Merkin3 and Robyn M Millan4, (1)Japan Geoscience Union, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Following Ions from the Magnetotail to the Inner Magnetosphere: July 6, 2017 Case Study (1955439)
Richard Gorby1, Amy M Keesee1 and Harry Arnold2, (1)University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
 
Evolution of Dipolarization Fronts from the Magnetotail to Inner Magnetosphere Observed by MMS (1967482)
Tyler Metivier1, Hiroshi Matsui2, Charles J Farrugia2 and Roy B Torbert2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
 
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Purbi Adhya, Spring Hill College, Physics, Mobile, United States, Edmund A Spencer, University of South Alabama, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mobile, AL, United States and Piyas Chowdhury, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States
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