First Responses of the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere during Extreme Geomagnetic Storms


Ragini Vijaya Balachandran1, Li-Jen Chen2,3, Shan Wang2,3, Thomas Earle Moore4, Mei-Ching Hannah Fok2, Yi-Jiun Su5, Lynn M Kistler6, Robert J Strangeway7, Christopher T Russell8 and Conrad Schiff9, (1)Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School, Rockville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (6)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Aurora Engineering), Greenbelt, United States