SM058
Magnetotail Dipolarization and Other Mesoscale Processes Throughout Geospace: A Key Element of Global Dynamics I

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 11:30-12:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, Space Sciences Department, El Segundo, CA, United States
Conveners:  Matina Gkioulidou1, Drew L. Turner1 and Astrid I Maute2, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States(2)NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, Space Sciences Department, El Segundo, CA, United States
Chairs:  Christine Gabrielse1, Astrid I Maute2, Matina Gkioulidou3 and Drew L. Turner3, (1)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States(2)NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States(3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States
11:30
SM058-01
Relative contributions of large-scale and wedgelet currents in the substorm current wedge (Invited) (694862)
Toshi 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, Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States, James M Weygand, IGPP/UCLA---ESS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Eric Donovan, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:37
SM058-02
Effects of idealized plasma sheet bubble injections on global distribution of field aligned currents (679319)
Sina Sadeghzadeh1, Jian Yang1 and Frank Toffoletto2, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, (2)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States
11:44
SM058-03
Is the Substorm Current Wedge an Ensemble of Wedgelets?: Revisit to Midlatitude Positive Bays (745504)
Shinichi Ohtani, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Jesper W Gjerloev, Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
11:51
SM058-04
Ballooning/Interchange Heads in the Earth’s Magnetotail and Their Ionospheric Manifestations (Invited) (666320)
Evgeny V Panov1, Philip L Pritchett2, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Marina V Kubyshkina3, San Lu4, Rumi Nakamura5 and James M Weygand6, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (6)IGPP/UCLA---ESS, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:58
SM058-06
Three-Dimensional Simulations of Magnetospheric Substorm Onset by Kinetic Cross-Tail Instabilities (767979)
Samuel Totorica, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
12:05
SM058-07
Influence of multi-scale geomagnetic forcing on the ionosphere-thermosphere system (Invited) (662047)
Yue Deng1, Cheng Sheng1, Qingyu Zhu2, Delores J Knipp3, Liam M Kilcommons4, Phillip Charles Anderson5, William A Bristow6 and Yukitoshi Nishimura7, (1)University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Texas at Dallas, W. B. Hanson Center for Space Science, Richardson, TX, United States, (6)Penn State, State College, PA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
12:12
SM058-08
Comparing simulation and results from two models during a period of large IMF By (733096)
Ramon E Lopez1, Kevin H Pham2, Alex Glocer3, Robert J Strangeway4, Pauline Marie Marie Dredger1 and Daniel T Welling1, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, CO, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
12:19
Discussion
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