SM022
Magnetosphere - Plasmasphere - Ionosphere Coupling: Transport of Ionospheric Ions to the Magnetosphere and their Consequences

Session ID#: 72753

Session Description:
The Earth’s ionosphere is composed of dense and cold plasma that includes heavy ions. This plasma can directly escape to the magnetosphere following the Earth's magnetic field lines in the polar regions, and forms the plasmasphere in the low- and mid-latitude regions. The ionosphere is therefore an important source that provides significant amounts of plasma to the magnetosphere and has a profound impact on the global magnetosphere dynamics. 

Recent observations from numerous missions including Cluster, Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, and MMS and simulations identify the origin, transport, and loss of plasma originating in the ionosphere and transported into the magnetosphere. These ionospheric ions modify the plasma properties, and have an impact on key plasma dynamics such as wave generation and transport, particle acceleration or magnetic reconnection. This session welcomes presentations on all aspects related to ionospheric plasma in the magnetosphere. Studies based on observations, theory and simulations are encouraged.

Index Terms:

2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2768 Plasmasphere [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Sergio Toledo Redondo, IRAP-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Conveners:  Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Elena A Kronberg, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany and Sarah K. Vines, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sergio Toledo Redondo, IRAP, Toulouse, France
 
Effect of cold protons and oxygen on the reconnection process (Invited) (484820)
Paul Tenfjord1, Michael Hesse1, Cecilia Norgren1, Hakon Kolsto2 and Susanne Spinnangr2, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
 
Investigating influences of dayside plasma composition on electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves with Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) (486652)
Justin H Lee1, Drew L. Turner2, Robert Colby Allen3, Sarah K. Vines3 and Sergio Toledo Redondo4, (1)Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, (2)The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)IRAP, Toulouse, France
 
The Temperature Dependence of Plasmaspheric Ion Composition (Invited) (495598)
Jerry Goldstein1, Dennis Lee Gallagher2, Paul D. Craven2, Richard H Comfort3, Kevin James Genestreti4, Christopher Mouikis5, Harlan E. Spence4, William S Kurth6, John R Wygant7, Ruth M Skoug8, Brian Larsen8, Reeves Geoffrey8 and Sebastian De Pascuale9, (1)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Retired, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (8)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (9)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
 
The effect of self-consistent ionospheric outflow on magnetotail stability and flows (506378)
Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kevin H Pham, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Roger H Varney, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, William Lotko, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, Mikhail I. Sitnov, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States and Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The cold ion drag and its possible impact on the dayside magnetospheric convection (506781)
Vadim M Uritsky1, Barbara L Giles1, Suzanne Elizabeth Smith2, Levon A Avanov1, William R Paterson3, Jason R Shuster4 and Daniel J Gershman5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Direct entry and radial dependence of O+ in the near-Earth plasma sheet (507837)
Marissa L Hedlund1, Christopher Mouikis2, Lynn M Kistler2 and Michael G Henderson3, (1)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Spacecraft Charging and Spacecraft Velocity Effects on Low Energy Plasma Distribution Functions (507998)
Maria Voskresenskaya1, Geoffrey D Reeves2 and Brian Larsen2, (1)New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Quantification of cold-ion beams in an earthward bursty bulk flow behind a dipolarization front (509369)
W.Y. Li1, Yuxuan Li2, Jiansen He3, Binbin Tang4, Chi Wang4, Qiugang Zong5, Sergio Toledo Redondo6, Mats Andre7, Paul Tenfjord8, Alex Glocer9, Sarah K. Vines10 and James Burch11, (1)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (2)School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China., Beijing, China, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)CSSAR, CAS, Beijing, China, (5)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (7)Swedish Inst Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (8)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (9)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
The further development of the polar magnetic index of geomagnetic activity (510426)
Sonya Lyatsky1, Domenico Di Mauro2 and Wladislaw B Lyatsky1, (1)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
 
The Effect of Ring Current Heating on Plasmaspheric Ion Composition (519258)
Andrew Menz, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Naomi Maruyama, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Phil Richards, George Mason University Fairfax, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, Yuki Obana, Osaka Electro-Communicat. Univ, Osaka, Japan and Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan
 
Oxygen Ion Butterfly Distributions observed in a Magnetotail Dipolarizing Flux Bundle (533040)
Shaojie Zhao1, Suiyan Fu1, Weijie Sun2, Xuzhi Zhou1, Zuyin Pu1, Lun Xie1, Tong Wu1, Ying Xiong1 and Hui Zhang1, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Coupling of Earth’s Ionosphere, Magnetosphere and Solar Wind (535948)
Ensang Lee1, George K Parks2, Hee-Eun Kim3, Zhongwei Yang4, Ying D. Liu4 and Suiyan Fu5, (1)Kyung Hee University, School of Space Research, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea, (4)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (5)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Plasmasphere, Torus, and Cloak: An Initial View of the Typical Distribution of Cold-to-Warm Ions in the Inner Magnetosphere during the Van Allen Probes Era (540838)
Jörg-Micha Jahn1, Jerry Goldstein2, Michael Warren Liemohn3, Raluca Ilie4, John R Wygant5, William S Kurth6, Brian Larsen7, Philip A Fernandes7, Reeves Geoffrey7, Ruth M Skoug7, Harlan E. Spence8 and Kristine M Sigsbee6, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
New Perspective Concerning the Influence of Heavy Ions on Magnetospheric Processes: N+ Band of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves (549107)
Muhammad Fraz Bashir and Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Momentum Coupling in Magnetized Plasmas (560648)
David L Cooke, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Remington R Reid, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, AFRL/RDHP, Albuquerque, NM, United States, James P Patton, Air Force Research Lab Albuquerque, AFRL/RVBX, Albuquerque, United States and Ashley C Stiles, Assurance Technology Corp.,, Chelmsford, MA, United States
 
Investigation of O+ and H+ Properties During the Evolution of Two Intense Geomagnetic Storms: Implications for Solar Wind Conditions' Effect on the Abundance of Ionospheric vs. Solar Wind Plasma Source in the Inner Magnetosphere. (561149)
Matina Gkioulidou1, Shinichi Ohtani2, Donald G Mitchell1, Brian Larsen3 and Sarah K. Vines4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Electrostatic spacecraft potential structure and wake formation effects for characterization of cold ionospheric ions in the Earth’s magnetosphere (564603)
Sergio Toledo Redondo1, Benoit Lavraud2, Stephen A Fuselier3, Mats Andre4, Yuri Khotyaintsev5, Rumi Nakamura6, C Philippe Escoubet7, W.Y. Li8, Klaus Torkar9, Fabrice Cipriani10, Alex C Barrie11, Barbara L Giles12, Thomas Earle Moore13, Daniel J Gershman14, Per-Arne Lindqvist15, James Webster16, Christopher T Russell17 and James Burch3, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Swedish Inst Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (6)Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (7)ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (8)CSSAR, CAS, Beijing, China, (9)Space Research Institute / Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (10)ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (SGT Inc.), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (16)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
HOPE and RAM-SCB Comparisons of Inner Magnetosphere Oxygen Enhancement Events (569248)
Philip A Fernandes1, Alisha Vira2, Ruth M Skoug1, Miles Engel1, Michelle F Thomsen3, Herbert O Funsten1, Jörg-Micha Jahn4, Vania K Jordanova1, Brian Larsen1 and Geoffrey D Reeves1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Smith College, Northampton, MA, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, AZ, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Observations of Energy-Dispersed Narrow Band Structures in the Plasmaspheric Region (570343)
Junhyun Lee, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), Ensang Lee, Dept. of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi, South Korea and Khan-Hyuk Kim, Kyung Hee University, School of Space Research, Yongin, South Korea
 
Simulation of the impact of a plasmaspheric plume on the dayside magnetic reconnection (575164)
Jérémy Dargent, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Nicolas Aunai, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648) CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris Paris (France, Paris, France, Benoit Lavraud, IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France and Francesco Califano, Universita' di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
 
Investigation of Cold Proton Heating and Statistical Analysis of Ion Pitch Angle Distribution using Van Allen Probes and MMS (591826)
Myeong Joon Kim1, Jerry Goldstein2, Stephen A Fuselier3, Michael Denton4, James Burch3, Harlan E. Spence5, Reeves Geoffrey6 and Ruth M Skoug6, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, United States, (2)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) study of the plasmaspheric plume at Earth’s dayside magnetopause under varying solar wind conditions (608903)
Suzanne Elizabeth Smith, Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States, Vadim M Uritsky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, William R Paterson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Levon A Avanov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
GAMERA-CHIMP simulations of ionospheric outfllow and it's effects on the magnetosphere (623778)
John Lyon, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Kareem Sorathia, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States and Binzheng Zhang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Where does cold, dense plume plasma originate from? (628981)
Naomi Maruyama, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Heavy ion effects on wave normal angle of linearly polarized electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves (633196)
Kyung-Dong Lee, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), Eun-Hwa Kim, Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, NJ, United States and Hyomin Kim, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Edison, NJ, United States
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