SM046
Understanding the Role of Heavy Ions and Plasma Convection in Regulating the Coupled Magnetosphere–Ionosphere Dynamics I

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 11:30-12:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Muhammad Fraz Bashir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Elena A Kronberg, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Lunjin Chen Dr., University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, United States and Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Chairs:  Elena A Kronberg, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States and Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
11:30
Some Impacts of Heavy Ions on Near-Earth Magnetospheric Processes (Invited) (662369)
Joseph Borovsky, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
11:36
The Changing Source of the Plasma Sheet During Geomagnetic Storms (698656)
Lynn M Kistler, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Christopher Mouikis, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Kazushi Asamura, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, Satoshi Kasahara, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Kunihiro Keika, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Petrinec M Steven, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Tomoaki Hori, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Shoichiro Yokota, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan and Iku Shinohara, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ISAS, Sagamihara, Japan
11:40
Poleward Boundary Intensifications, Auroral Streamer Production and STEVE Emissions (746538)
Michael G Henderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
11:44
Investigating the simultaneous occurrence of STEVEs and SAR arcs using all-sky imagers, satellites, and citizen scientist data (Invited) (665653)
Carlos R. Martinis1, Jeffrey L Baumgardner1, Joei Wroten1, Toshi Nishimura2, Ian Grifffin3 and Bea Gallardo-Lacourt4, (1)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, United States, (3)Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:50
The Green Emissions of STEVE: Optical Evidence of an Energy Cascade (706736)
Joshua L Semeter, Boston University, Center for Space Physics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, Michael Hunnekuhl, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, Elizabeth MacDonald, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Michael Hirsch, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Neil Zeller, Alberta Aurora Chasers, Calgary, Canada
11:54
Heavy Ion Effects on Magnetotail Stability in Global Multi-Fluid MHD Simulations (Invited) (665215)
Katherine Garcia-Sage, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kevin H Pham, NCAR, Boulder, CO, CO, United States, Roger H Varney, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 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, Kareem Sorathia, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
12:00
Revealing the role of “hidden heavy ions” component in the terrestrial polar wind outflow (744727)
Mei-Yun Lin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
12:04
The effect of ionospheric conductance on the decay rate of magnetospheric convection (680588)
Therese Moretto1, Michael Hesse1, Lutz Rastaetter2, Maria M Kuznetsova3, Susanne Vennerstrom4 and Paul Tenfjord5, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)National Space Institute, DTU, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (5)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
12:08
Deciphering the Earth’s Magnetospheric “Zebra Stripes”: Recent Advances and Perspectives (Invited) (664894)
Solene Lejosne, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Forrest Mozer, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
12:14
Field-aligned low-energy O+ ion flux variations in the inner magnetosphere observed by Arase (712777)
Masahito Nose1, Ayako Matsuoka2, Yoshizumi Miyoshi3, Kazushi Asamura4, Tomoaki Hori1, Mariko Teramoto5, Iku Shinohara6 and Masafumi Hirahara1, (1)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan, (3)ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (4)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Japan, (6)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ISAS, Sagamihara, Japan
12:18
The role of O+ and He+ on the propagation of Kinetic Alfven Waves in the Earth’s inner magnetosphere (683036)
Pablo S Moya, University of Chile, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Santiago, Chile, Bea Zenteno-Quinteros, University of Chile, Departamento de Fisica, Santiago, Chile, Iván Gallo-Mendez, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile and Victor A Pinto, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States
12:22
Discussion