Ring Current Dynamics, Coupling, and Consequences in the Inner Magnetosphere
Ring Current Dynamics, Coupling, and Consequences in the Inner Magnetosphere
Session ID#: 282142
Session Description:
The ring current is a fundamental component of the Earth’s inner magnetosphere, playing a central role in geomagnetic storm evolution, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and the redistribution of energy across geospace. Due to the ring current’s coupling with many regions and populations across geospace combined with its own complex evolution, its behavior and dynamics are important yet challenging to understand. This session welcomes studies that advance understanding of the ring current and its role in inner-magnetospheric dynamics. We encourage contributions from observations, theory, modeling, and combined approaches, including work that connects processes across regions and scales. Fields of interest include:
- Ring current formation, transport, composition, and storm-time evolution.
- Coupling of the ring current with the plasmasphere, radiation belts, and ionosphere.
- Wave generation by ring current particles.
- Wave-particle interactions, including nonlinear processes.
- Particle scattering, precipitation, and related loss processes.
- Feedback of precipitation and loss on ring current evolution and inner-magnetospheric dynamics.
Index Terms:
7807 Charged particle motion and acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7839 Nonlinear phenomena [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7867 Wave/particle interactions [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Longzhi Gan, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: Qianli Ma, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Anthony Sciola, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States and Jiabei He, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
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