Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Asymmetry
Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Asymmetry
Session ID#: 120504
Session Description:
The uniqueness of polar regions for conducting geospace research has been acknowledged for decades. This is because instrumentation located at high-latitudes allows access to a natural laboratory for studying the Earth’s atmosphere, its space environment, and solar-generated interplanetary structures. Given that the polar regions are critical for geospace research, the interhemispheric conjugacy and asymmetries in the polar regions remain an area fraught with unknowns and open questions, representing a barrier to understanding the thermosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system. These interhemispheric features may manifest in a number of ways, including auroral patterns, induced electrical currents, geomagnetic field geometry, ionospheric electrodynamics, ion-neutral coupling, temperature and winds in the neutral atmosphere, and more. This session solicits papers on recent advances in space physics, aeronomy and space weather focusing on interhemispheric conjugacy and asymmetries in polar regions. Studies discussing observations or modeling results that place polar dynamics in global context are highly encouraged.
Index Terms:
2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2475 Polar cap ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
2704 Auroral phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2776 Polar cap phenomena [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Hyomin Kim, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners: Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, Astrid I Maute, NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Primary Liaison: Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
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