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Session Proposal: Resolving the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere (AGU25)

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Resolving the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere

Session ID#: 250930

Session Description:
It is becoming increasingly obvious that multi-satellite constellations are needed to take the next step in understanding the near-Earth environment and associated disturbances. Satellite constellations can separate the spatial and temporal features of space plasmas and neutrals at diverse spatial and temporal scales. Results from the AMPERE, Swarm, and ST5 constellations have provided insight on the spatiotemporal characteristics of field-aligned currents. DMSP has provided a multi-decade dataset of measurements of ionospheric properties, and current and upcoming missions including EZIE and TRACERS are expected to provide new datasets for focused electrodynamics problems. GDC is the first planned constellation providing simultaneous measurements of auroral/ionospheric and thermospheric characteristics and studies using both real and simulated data from multi-satellite constellations will offer useful information for planning. We invite presentations on this subject using observations from existing/former satellite constellations, modeling, and ground-based observatories covering the auroral ionosphere including connections to the magnetosphere and neutral atmosphere
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2407 Auroral ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2437 Ionospheric dynamics [IONOSPHERE]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Phillip Charles Anderson, University of Texas at Dallas, W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Richardson, TX, United States
Conveners:  Douglas E. Rowland1, Jeffrey P Thayer2 and Eftyhia Zesta1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
F-region Neutral Wind Response to Multiscale Geomagnetic Forcing During the March 27th, 2014 Substorm Event (1891570)
Yue Deng, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Cheng Sheng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States, William A Bristow, Penn State, State College, PA, United States, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Larry R Lyons, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Mark Conde, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States and Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States
 
Tomographic Reconstructions of High-Latitude Ionosphere-Thermosphere Variability from DMSP SSULI Data (1911973)
Maggie Zheng, University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States; Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Aimee W Merkel, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Bruce Fritz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington, United States, Scott E Palo, University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Kenneth Dymond, U.S. Naval Reseach Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Assessing the Accuracy of GDC Measurements Using ADELPHI and Weimer 2005 (1913989)
Ja Soon Shim1,2, Robert M Robinson3, Katherine Garcia-Sage4, Douglas E. Rowland4, Francesca Di Mare2, Jeff Klenzing4 and Guiping Liu5, (1)Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Science and Technology Institute, Huntsville, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ITM Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Comparing Northern Hemisphere Mid-Latitude Termosphere-Ionosphere Response to Two Recent Geomagnetic Storms (1917531)
Loredana Perrone1, Dario Sabbagh1, Alessandro Ippolito1, Carlo Scotto1, Luca Spogli2, Mauro Regi3 and Paolo Bagiacchi1, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, (2)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, L'Aquila, Italy
 
Transient Features of Geomagnetic Forcing during Substorms and Their Impacts on the I-T System (1949173)
Cheng Sheng, University of Texas at Arlington, Physics, Arlington, TX, United States, Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States, Zihan Wang, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland, Viplaw Bhandari, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, Bill Bristow, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Larry R Lyons, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States
 
TRACERS twin-spacecraft mission to resolve spatiotemporal variations of the ionosphere and upper thermosphere during CME-driven storms (Invited) (1951306)
Li-Jen Chen1, David Miles2, John W Bonnell3, Kevin H Pham4, Wenbin Wang5, Viacheslav G Merkin6, Jasper S Halekas2, Stephen A Fuselier7, Steven Petrinec8, Brandon L Burkholder9, Daniel da Silva1, Dong Lin10, Robert J Strangeway11, Hao Cao12, Katherine Goodrich13, Hyunju KIM Connor14, George B Hospodarsky2 and TRACERS and MAGE teams, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (8)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Belmont, United States, (9)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (10)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)West Virginia University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Interhemispheric Asymmetries in the Polar Cap in Response to Solar Wind Driving (1952142)
Sarah K. Vines, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Wenli Mo, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Robert Colby Allen, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Brian J Anderson, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, John Coxon, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Alex Chartier, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, Astrid I Maute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Gang Lu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, Delores Knipp, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Joey Mukherjee, Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Quantifying the temporal and spatial scales in the thermosphere and ionosphere for multi-satellite mission designs (Invited) (1957833)
Aaron J Ridley, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Atheer Alhothali, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Cusp ion acceleration and outflows: Initial results from TRACERS (1962731)
Yangyang Shen1, Robert J Strangeway1, Hao Cao2, Stephen A Fuselier3, John W Bonnell4, Jasper S Halekas5, David Miles5, George B Hospodarsky5 and Jiashu Wu1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States
 
Resolving the Temporal Coherence of Auroral Forms and Electrodynamics Using Multiple Spacecraft (1963841)
Phillip Charles Anderson, University of Texas at Dallas, W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Richardson, TX, United States
 
Enhancing Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Science ThroughEphemeris Validation and Kamodo-Powered Data Visualization (1966629)
Douglas E. Rowland1, Francesca Di Mare2, Katherine Garcia-Sage1, Jeff Klenzing1, Guiping Liu3 and Ja-Soon Shim4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ITM Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Science and Technology Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, United States
 
Getting Decadal-Class science from multipoint ionosphere/thermosphere measurements (1967943)
Douglas E. Rowland1, Larry Kepko2, Katherine Garcia-Sage1 and The Geospace Dynamics Constellation Science Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
 
Why NASA’s GDC Mission Matters: Lessons from the15 May 2005 Geomagnetic Storm (1970293)
Kevin Delano1, Eftyhia Zesta2, Denny Oliveira3, Daniel J Gershman4, Marilia Samara2, Aaron J Ridley5, Harald U Frey6, Phillip Charles Anderson7 and GDC Science Team, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)GSFC/UMBC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Texas at Dallas, W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Richardson, TX, United States
 
Investigation of Evening Time Mid-latitude Ionosphere Anomalies with COSMIC-1 Radio Occultation Data from Solar Minimum to Solar Maximum. (1973849)
Peyton DeMarco, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Nicholas Zaremba, NOAA, Lanham, United States and Irfan Azeem, NOAA NESDIS, Office of Space Weather Observations, Lanham, United States
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