SM010
Geospace Systems Science: Current Understanding and Future Planning
Geospace Systems Science: Current Understanding and Future Planning
Session ID#: 160199
Session Description:
Understanding solar wind interaction with the Earthâs space environment is highly relevant to the NASA Heliophysics overarching goal and crucial to predict hazardous space weather impact on our high-tech society. The Earthâs magnetosphere system includes various regions like bow shock, magnetopause, magnetosphere, cusps, plasmasphere, plasmasheet, magnetotail, ring current, upper atmosphere, and exosphere. Each region is governed by different physical processes (e.g., magnetic reconnection, wave-particle interaction, neutral-ion charge exchange, and photoionization) at various spatiotemporal scales. Understanding the holistic behavior of our dynamic magnetospheric system requires study of not only an individual region but also interconnection between the regions. This session solicits papers addressing geospace systems science that utilize multi-point spacecraft observations, ground observations, theories, simulations, or combination of them. We also invite mission concept studies for addressing unsolved questions in the geospace environment.
Index Terms:
2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2788 Magnetic storms and substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2794 Instruments and techniques [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Hyunju Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Syau-Yun Wang Hsieh, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, C Philippe Escoubet, ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands and David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Hyangpyo Kim, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
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