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Interactive Visualizations of Magnetic Reconnection: State-of-the-Art Spacecraft Observations and Simulations eLightning

Thursday, 10 December 2020: 07:00-08:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Cecilia Norgren, University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway and Frederick D Wilder, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Cecilia Norgren, University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway and Frederick D Wilder, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
07:00
Electron Energy Density Dissipation Rate and Turbulent Cascade Rate in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath (Invited) (709259)
Arya S Afshari1, Gregory G Howes2, Craig Kletzing1, David Hartley1 and Scott A Boardsen3, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
07:03
Electron-scale currents in the dayside magnetopause: Observations over two seasons (Invited) (666650)
Yi Qi, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Robert J Strangeway, UCLA IGPP/ESS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Ying-Dong Jia, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Mark Alexander Alexander Hubbert, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, James Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, William R Paterson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
07:06
Current-Sheet Equilibria with Crescent Distributions: Structure, Evolution, and Wave-Particle Interactions (701517)
David Newman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium and Martin V Goldman, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
07:09
Polynomial reconstruction of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) spacecraft: New results (701205)
Richard Eugene Denton1, Yi-Hsin Liu2, Roy B Torbert3, Hiroshi Hasegawa4, Bengt Sonnerup2 and Kevin James Genestreti5, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
07:12
Deformations of the geomagnetic tail during flapping observed by MMS (716867)
Anthony J Rogers, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics, Durham, NH, United States, Charles J Farrugia, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States and Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
07:15
Integration of multi-moment fluid models into the OpenGGCM global magnetosphere model (765604)
Kai Germaschewski, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Liang Wang, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Chuanfei Dong, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Ammar Hakim, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States and Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
07:18
A Statistical Comparison of Global MHD Simulations and Geomagnetic Storm Indices (669546)
Qusai Abdulla Al Shidi, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Tuija I Pulkkinen, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland, Austin Brenner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Gabor Toth, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space, Center for Space Environment Modeling, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Shasha Zou, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
07:21
Development of cross-reference framework CoToCoA and application to macro- and micro-scale simulations in the space plasma (687344)
Keiichiro Fukazawa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Yuto Katoh, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Takaeshi Nanri, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan and Yohei Miyake, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
07:24
Magnetic Reconnection in a Sheared Magnetic Flux Tube: Slippage versus Tearing (693146)
Hidetaka Kuniyoshi1, Michael Hesse2, Paul Tenfjord2, Cecilia Norgren2 and Norah Kaggwa Kwagala2, (1)The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan, (2)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
07:27
Whistler Mode Waves Observed During Reconnection in the Earth’s Turbulent Magnetosheath (686658)
Megan Conley1, Frederick D Wilder2, Alexandros Chasapis3, Robert Ergun3, Narges Ahmadi3, Sanni Hoilijoki4, Steven Schwartz3, Tai Phan5, James Burch6, Roy B Torbert7, Barbara L Giles8, Robert J Strangeway9 and Olivier Le Contel10, (1)Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France
07:30
Acceleration and thermalization of cold ions during magnetic reconnection (734429)
Cecilia Norgren1, Michael Hesse2, Paul Tenfjord2 and Therese Moretto2, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
07:33
Balancing the electron Vlasov equation with MMS: Characterizing phase space density gradients during magnetopause reconnection (757378)
Jason R Shuster1, Daniel J Gershman2, Barbara L Giles2, John Dorelli2, Shan Wang1, Naoki Bessho1, Li J Chen2, Daniel da Silva2, Vadim M Uritsky2 and William R Paterson3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
07:36
Dynamics of Variable Dusk-Dawn Flow Associated with Magnetotail Current Sheet Flapping (728203)
James Lane1, Adrian Grocott2 and Nathan Case1, (1)Lancaster University, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (2)Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom
07:39
Summary of THEMIS observations of magnetopause reconnection (707365)
Emil Atz1, Brian Walsh1, Ying Zou2 and Jeffrey Michael Broll1, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
07:42
Discussion