1995 SNOWMASS PROGRAM

BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN WG 1:  RECONNECTION ELECTRIC FIELD AND MAGNETOPAUSE
BOUNDARY NORMAL MAGNETIC FIELD

ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO PARTICIPATE SHOULD RESPOND TO NELSON AND/OR
LARRY AS SOON AS IS FEASIBLE.  INPUT FROM LAST YEARS GEM CAMPAIGNS IS DESIRED,
AND PLEASE LET US OF ANY GOOD EVENTS 

Times below are approximate and flexible

I.  MONDAY, JUNE 26 (10:30-12; 3:30-4:15)

Periods of good multi-instrument coverage of the dayside cusp region at ~13 to
16 UT, with IMF available (27 Jan. 1992;  29 Mar. 1992;  21 July 1992)

     Scientific goal:  Identify separatrix and 2-dimensional flow versus time
across and in vicinity of separatrix.

     Plan:  Bring data in usable format to Snowmass;  present results that
have been obtained and data that could be used by itself and/or in conjunction
with other data, to address the above goals.

     Contributors:

          Study coordinator:  Lyons

          Goose Bay data:  Baker/Greenwald

          Halley Bay data:  Rodger/Pinnock

          Sondrestrom data:  Blanchard/Lyons

          AMIE:  Gang Lu

          Eiscat:  Mike Lockwood

     29 Mar. 1992 (Good Goose and Halley Bay data; variable IMF)
          Baker:  Goose Bay and Halley Bay study of dayside reconnection
                      rates including motion of polar cap boundary
          Blanchard/Lyons:  Comparisons with Sondrestrom data
          Lu:     Large-scale AMIE potential patterns during period of
                   reconnection measurements
          Lockwood:  cusp transients seen by EISCAT at 9-10 UT

     21 July 1992 (Good Goose and Halley Bay data; IMF?)
          Rodger/Pinnock:  Analysis of Halley Bay data
          Baker:  Preliminary Goose (and perhaps Halley) reconnection results
          Blanchard/Lyons:  Comparisons with Sondrestrom data
          Lu:     Large-scale AMIE potential patterns during period of
                   reconnection measurements

     27 Jan. 1992 (Good Goose Bay data, but little from Halley;  stable IMF)
          Baker, Rodger/Pinnock, Blanchard/Lyons, Lu:  Reminder of what
                  is available from Goose Bay, Halley, Sondrestrom, and AMIE

II:  MONDAY JUNE 26 (4:15-4:25):  2-3 Aug., 1981 AMIE results during times of
dayside poleward progressions (G. Lu).

III:   MONDAY JUNE 26 (4:25-5:00):  Identification of data gathered during
last year's GEM coordinated data campaigns and discussion of data campaign
plans for upcoming year

IV:  TUESDAY JUNE 27 (8:45-10:10, 1:30-2:00)

Test separatrix identification techniques with dayside optical observations,
DMSP, and radars.

     Dates:  6-7 Jan. 1992;  14 Jan. 1994,  6-7 Dec. 1994

     Plan:  Bring data in usable format to Snowmass;  present results that
have been obtained and data that could be used by itself and/or in conjunction
with other data, to address the above goals.

     Contributors:

          Study coordinator:  Maynard

          Optical data:  Jacobsen, Minnow, Smith

          Sondrestrom radar:  Blanchard/Lyons
	
          DMSP:  Hairston

          AMIE:  Knipp

     Data from above dates will be discussed.

V.  TUESDAY JUNE 27 (2:00-2:30)

Continue determinations of polar-cap convection patterns and estimates of
separatrix and boundary locations for intervals of relative stable IMF.

     Dates:  27-29 Jan. 1992;  20-21 July 1992; 12-13 Jan. 1989

          Coordination:  Lu, Lyons

          Review of technique and intital results for 27-29 Jan.:  Lyons

		      IMF and AMIE results review for 20-21 July & 12-13 Jan.:  Lu



VI:  TUESDAY JUNE 27 (2:30-3:00):  Group summary of what we've done, where we
are, and where we are going.

Larry Lyons  (Larry_Lyons@qmail2.aero.org;  SPAN:  Dirac2::Lyons) 
Nelson Maynard  (Maynard@zircon.plh.af.mil)