*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 14, Number 17 May 14, 2004 -------------------------------------------------- Plasma Acceleration and Transport Sessions at GEM -------------------------------------------------- From: Terry Onsager The working group "Plasma Acceleration and Transport" of the Global Interactions Campaign is planning three sessions for the 2004 GEM workshop (http://gem.rice.edu/~gem). Relevant contributions to these sessions are welcome. The contents of the three sessions are: 1. Plasma Sheet Properties: This session will focus on observations relating to the plasma character of the plasma sheet and their dependencies on magnetospheric/solar wind conditions. This includes in particular observations on the ion composition and distribution (for instance of oxygen) as an indicator of possible solar wind or ionospheric origin. 2. Source and Transport Mechanisms: This session will focus on models and observations of plasma transport to the plasma sheet. Which boundary processes are important for plasma entry? What are the paths of plasma from the different boundary regions to the plasma sheet? Solar wind as well as ionospheric sources will be considered. One focus will be the structure and formation of the plasma sheet in global models. Aspects here should include the heating or acceleration of the plasma sheet material. 3. Coordination of future activities: This session will focus on the planning and issues regarding a plasma sheet modeling challenge, and on the coordination of efforts with the "Reconnection dynamics, cusp, and LLBL" working group, which is the other working group within the Global Interactions Campaign. We welcome brief presentations for these sessions, and we hope to reserve a fair amount of time for open discussion. If you would like to give a presentation in one of these sessions, please contact the co-chairs: Antonius Otto (ao@gi.alaska.edu) and Terry Onsager (terry.onsager@noaa.gov). +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To subscribe GEM Messengers, send an e-mail to | | with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: | | subscribe gem | |To remove yourself from the mailing list, the command is: | | unsubscribe gem | | | |To broadcast a message to the GEM community, please contact Peter Chi at | | | |Please use plain text as the format of your submission. | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html | |Workshop Information: http://gem.rice.edu/~gem | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+