Magnetic Topology of Transpolar Auroral Arcs as seen by Global MHD Simulations

Shannon Hill1, Tuija I Pulkkinen1, Austin Brenner1, Qusai Al Shidi1, Agnit Mukhopadhyay2,3, Anita Kullen4, Milan Stephen5, Gemma Bower5, Harald U Frey6, Shasha Zou1 and Michael Warren Liemohn1, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)American University, Washington, United States, (4)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)University of Leicester, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States