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<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
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<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
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[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
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[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
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We want to begin collaborative efforts for examining the storm period chosen for community study -- 2016 Mar 4-8 (DOY 64-68). This will be the encouraged focus for M3I2 GEM Mini-Workshop at 2017 Fall AGU.<br />
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<h2>Session 1: Wednesday 10:30AM - Port VI-VIII - Main Focus: Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
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The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
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*Chair: Barbara Giles Scribe: Shasha Zou <br />
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#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#'''Barbara Giles:''' MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Rick Chappell:''' MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Naritoshi Kitamura:''' Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#'''Lynn Kistler:''' When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#'''Dan Welling:''' Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Jichun Zhang:''' Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#'''Matina Gkioulidou:''' Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#'''Andrew Menz:''' The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
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<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Amphitheater -- Main Focus on Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
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The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? How does the structure and timing relate to Magnetospheric Effects within Mag. Models and observations. Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.<br />
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*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
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#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#'''Shasha Zou:''' High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#'''Poorya Hosseini:''' Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#'''Jacob Bortnik:''' Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#'''Jonathan Krall:''' Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#'''Ralluca Ilie:''' Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Spencer Hatch:''' Stormtime Alfvénic Ion Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35462017 GEM Workshop2017-06-16T17:38:45Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
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<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
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Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
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'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
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'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
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All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
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== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
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=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
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* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
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* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
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1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
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2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
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3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
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4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
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5. Misha Sitnov<br />
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6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
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==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
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*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
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*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
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*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
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*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
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*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
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*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
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==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
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#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
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We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
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==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
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*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
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*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
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*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
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*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
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*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
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*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
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==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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See the description for the first PM session<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
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*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
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*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
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*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
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*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
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*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
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*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
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*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
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*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
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==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
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* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
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* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
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* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
* Inner magnetosphere plasma variations and coupling to ionosphere<br />
#Cristian Ferradas: Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures during a geomagnetic storm<br />
#Chao Yue: The characteristic pitch angle distributions of 1 eV to 600 keV protons near the equator based on Van Allen Probes observantions<br />
#Philip Fernandes: Global distribution of O+/H+ ratio based on Van Allen Probes observantions<br />
#Thiago Brito: Particle tracing modeling of ion fluxes at geosynchronous orbit during substorms<br />
#George Khazanov: Role of MI coupling processes in the formation of superthermal electron precipitations and electric conductance change<br />
#Yiqun Yu: Modeling efforts on the auroral conductance<br />
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=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
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First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
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Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
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==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* Wave dynamics in the inner magnetosphere<br />
#Mykhaylo Shumko: Microburst Scale Size Derived From a Bouncing Packet Observed with FIREBIRD-II <br />
#Kyungguk Min: Ion Bernstein instability as a possible source for O+ harmonic waves<br />
#Anthony Saikin: A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
#Zhaoguo He: Multiple satellites observation of magnetic dip event during the substorm on October 10 2013<br />
#Sam Bingham: Van Allen Probe Observations of Source and Seed Electrons, and Whistler Mode Chorus Wave Growth During ICME and CIR Driven Storms<br />
#Run Shi: Statistical relation between low frequency hiss and convective electron injection<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
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Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
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The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
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We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
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*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
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*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
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*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
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*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
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*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
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*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
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==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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*Discussion on Spacecraft Charging Challenge<br />
**Lutz Rastaetter<br />
**Vania Jordanova<br />
**Raluca Ilie<br />
**Colby Lemon<br />
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== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
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* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
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* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
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==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
*Chair: Barbara Giles Scribe: Shasha Zou <br />
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#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#'''Barbara Giles:''' MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Rick Chappell:''' MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Naritoshi Kitamura:''' Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#'''Lynn Kistler:''' When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#'''Dan Welling:''' Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Jichun Zhang:''' Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#'''Matina Gkioulidou:''' Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#'''Andrew Menz:''' The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
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==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Riometer injections<br />
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=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
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==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''Kyle Murphy''' Substorm Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Substorm Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Substorm Event Discussion<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
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==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
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* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
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==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
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== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
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* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#'''Shasha Zou:''' High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#'''Poorya Hosseini:''' Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#'''Jacob Bortnik:''' Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#'''Jonathan Krall:''' Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#'''Ralluca Ilie:''' Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Spencer Hatch:''' Stormtime Alfvénic Ion Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
<br />
Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Facsko<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
<br />
We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
<br />
* '''Student rewards'''<br />
<br />
=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3531GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-06-15T20:29:47Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<!-- ============ SESSIONS ============== --><br />
<br />
We want to begin collaborative efforts for examining the storm period chosen for community study -- 2016 Mar 4-8 (DOY 64-68). This will be the encouraged focus for M3I2 GEM Mini-Workshop at 2017 Fall AGU.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 1: Wednesday 10:30AM - Port VI-VIII - Main Focus: Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
<br />
*Chair: Barbara Giles Scribe: Shasha Zou <br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#'''Barbara Giles:''' MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Rick Chappell:''' MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Naritoshi Kitamura:''' Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#'''Lynn Kistler:''' When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#'''Dan Welling:''' Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Jichun Zhang:''' Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#'''Matina Gkioulidou:''' Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#'''Andrew Menz:''' The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Amphitheater -- Main Focus on Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? How does the structure and timing relate to Magnetospheric Effects within Mag. Models and observations. Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.<br />
<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#'''Shasha Zou:''' High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#'''Poorya Hosseini:''' Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#'''Jacob Bortnik:''' Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#'''Jonathan Krall:''' Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#'''Ralluca Ilie:''' Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Spencer Hatch:''' Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3530GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-06-15T20:29:24Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<!-- ============ SESSIONS ============== --><br />
<br />
We want to begin collaborative efforts for examining the storm period chosen for community study -- 2016 Mar 4-8 (DOY 64-68). This will be the encouraged focus for M3I2 GEM Mini-Workshop at 2017 Fall AGU.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 1: Wednesday 10:30AM - Port VI-VIII - Main Focus: Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#'''Barbara Giles:''' MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Rick Chappell:''' MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Naritoshi Kitamura:''' Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#'''Lynn Kistler:''' When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#'''Dan Welling:''' Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Jichun Zhang:''' Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#'''Matina Gkioulidou:''' Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#'''Andrew Menz:''' The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Amphitheater -- Main Focus on Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? How does the structure and timing relate to Magnetospheric Effects within Mag. Models and observations. Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.<br />
<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#'''Shasha Zou:''' High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#'''Poorya Hosseini:''' Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#'''Jacob Bortnik:''' Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#'''Jonathan Krall:''' Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#'''Ralluca Ilie:''' Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Spencer Hatch:''' Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3529GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-06-15T20:27:14Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<!-- ============ SESSIONS ============== --><br />
<br />
We want to begin collaborative efforts for examining the storm period chosen for community study -- 2016 Mar 4-8 (DOY 64-68). This will be the encouraged focus for M3I2 GEM Mini-Workshop at 2017 Fall AGU.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 1: Wednesday AM - Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Amphitheater -- Main Focus on Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? How does the structure and timing relate to Magnetospheric Effects within Mag. Models and observations. Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.<br />
<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#'''Shasha Zou:''' High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#'''Poorya Hosseini:''' Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#'''Jacob Bortnik:''' Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#'''Jonathan Krall:''' Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#'''Ralluca Ilie:''' Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Spencer Hatch:''' Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35282017 GEM Workshop2017-06-15T20:22:37Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
<br />
Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
<br />
'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
<br />
== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
<br />
* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
<br />
1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
<br />
2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
<br />
3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
<br />
4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
<br />
5. Misha Sitnov<br />
<br />
6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
<br />
*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
<br />
*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
<br />
*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
<br />
*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
<br />
*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
<br />
#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
<br />
We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
<br />
*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
<br />
*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
<br />
*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
<br />
*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
See the description for the first PM session<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
<br />
*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
<br />
*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
<br />
*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
<br />
*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
<br />
*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
<br />
*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
<br />
*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
<br />
*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
<br />
First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
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Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
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==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
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Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
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The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
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We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
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*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
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*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
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*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
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*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
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*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
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*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
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==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
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* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
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* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
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==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
*Chair: Barbara Giles Scribe: Shasha Zou <br />
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#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#'''Barbara Giles:''' MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Rick Chappell:''' MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Naritoshi Kitamura:''' Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#'''Lynn Kistler:''' When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#'''Dan Welling:''' Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Jichun Zhang:''' Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#'''Matina Gkioulidou:''' Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#'''Andrew Menz:''' The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
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==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
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=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
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==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
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==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
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* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
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==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
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== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
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* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
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==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
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#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#'''Shasha Zou:''' High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#'''Poorya Hosseini:''' Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#'''Jacob Bortnik:''' Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#'''Jonathan Krall:''' Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#'''Ralluca Ilie:''' Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Spencer Hatch:''' Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans<br />
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=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
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Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Fascko<br />
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==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
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We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
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== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
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* '''Student rewards'''<br />
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=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35272017 GEM Workshop2017-06-15T20:21:46Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
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<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
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Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
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'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
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'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
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All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
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== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
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=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
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* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
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* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
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1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
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2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
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3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
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4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
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5. Misha Sitnov<br />
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6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
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==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
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*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
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*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
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*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
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*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
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*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
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*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
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==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
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#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
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We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
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==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
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*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
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*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
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*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
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*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
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*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
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*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
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==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
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See the description for the first PM session<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
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'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
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*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
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*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
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*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
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*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
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*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
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*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
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*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
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*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
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==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
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(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
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=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
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Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
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* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
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* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
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* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
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* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
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=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
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Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
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==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
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Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
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Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
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==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
<br />
First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
<br />
Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
<br />
Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
<br />
The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
<br />
We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
<br />
*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
<br />
*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
<br />
*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
<br />
*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
<br />
*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
<br />
*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
<br />
* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
<br />
* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
*Chair: Barbara Giles Scribe: Shasha Zou <br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#'''Barbara Giles:''' MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Rick Chappell:''' MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#'''Naritoshi Kitamura:''' Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#'''Lynn Kistler:''' When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#'''Dan Welling:''' Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#'''Jichun Zhang:''' Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#'''Matina Gkioulidou:''' Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#'''Andrew Menz:''' The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
<br />
* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
<br />
== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#Shasha Zou: High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#Poorya Hosseini: Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#Jacob Bortnik: Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#Jonathan Krall: Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#Ralluca Ilie: Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Spencer Hatch: Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
<br />
Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Fascko<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
<br />
We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
<br />
* '''Student rewards'''<br />
<br />
=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35262017 GEM Workshop2017-06-15T20:18:56Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
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<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
<br />
Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
<br />
'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
<br />
== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
<br />
* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
<br />
1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
<br />
2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
<br />
3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
<br />
4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
<br />
5. Misha Sitnov<br />
<br />
6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
<br />
*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
<br />
*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
<br />
*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
<br />
*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
<br />
*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
<br />
#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
<br />
We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
<br />
*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
<br />
*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
<br />
*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
<br />
*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
See the description for the first PM session<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
<br />
*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
<br />
*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
<br />
*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
<br />
*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
<br />
*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
<br />
*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
<br />
*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
<br />
*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
<br />
First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
<br />
Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
<br />
Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
<br />
The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
<br />
We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
<br />
*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
<br />
*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
<br />
*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
<br />
*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
<br />
*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
<br />
*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
<br />
* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
<br />
* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
*Chair: Barbara Giles Scribe: Shasha Zou <br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#Barbara Giles: MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Rick Chappell: MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Naritoshi Kitamura: Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#Lynn Kistler: When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#Dan Welling: Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Jichun Zhang: Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#Matina Gkioulidou: Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#Andrew Menz: The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
<br />
* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
<br />
== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#Shasha Zou: High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#Poorya Hosseini: Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#Jacob Bortnik: Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#Jonathan Krall: Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#Ralluca Ilie: Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Spencer Hatch: Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
<br />
Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Fascko<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
<br />
We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
<br />
* '''Student rewards'''<br />
<br />
=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35252017 GEM Workshop2017-06-15T20:18:09Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
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<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
<br />
Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
<br />
'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
<br />
== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
<br />
* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
<br />
1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
<br />
2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
<br />
3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
<br />
4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
<br />
5. Misha Sitnov<br />
<br />
6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
<br />
*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
<br />
*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
<br />
*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
<br />
*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
<br />
*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
<br />
#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
<br />
We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
<br />
*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
<br />
*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
<br />
*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
<br />
*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
See the description for the first PM session<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
<br />
*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
<br />
*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
<br />
*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
<br />
*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
<br />
*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
<br />
*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
<br />
*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
<br />
*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
<br />
First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
<br />
Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
<br />
Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
<br />
The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
<br />
We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
<br />
*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
<br />
*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
<br />
*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
<br />
*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
<br />
*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
<br />
*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
<br />
* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
<br />
* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#Barbara Giles: MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Rick Chappell: MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Naritoshi Kitamura: Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#Lynn Kistler: When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#Dan Welling: Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Jichun Zhang: Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#Matina Gkioulidou: Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#Andrew Menz: The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
<br />
* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
<br />
== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of Ionospheric Outflow & Ionospheric Boundary Goals<br />
#Shasha Zou: High Latitude Ionospheric Boundary<br />
#Poorya Hosseini: Ground-based Wave Measurements in Ionosphere<br />
#Jacob Bortnik: Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics—A Neural Network Approach<br />
#Jonathan Krall: Plasmasphere Modeling<br />
#Ralluca Ilie: Observations of Nitrogen Ions in the Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Spencer Hatch: Ionospheric Mass Outflow & Electron Precipitation<br />
#Session Summary and Open Discussion of Plans<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
<br />
Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Fascko<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
<br />
We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
<br />
* '''Student rewards'''<br />
<br />
=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35242017 GEM Workshop2017-06-15T20:16:39Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
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<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
<br />
Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
<br />
'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
<br />
== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
<br />
* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
<br />
1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
<br />
2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
<br />
3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
<br />
4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
<br />
5. Misha Sitnov<br />
<br />
6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
<br />
*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
<br />
*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
<br />
*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
<br />
*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
<br />
*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
<br />
#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
<br />
We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
<br />
*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
<br />
*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
<br />
*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
<br />
*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
See the description for the first PM session<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
<br />
*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
<br />
*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
<br />
*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
<br />
*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
<br />
*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
<br />
*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
<br />
*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
<br />
*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
<br />
First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
<br />
Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
<br />
Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
<br />
The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
<br />
We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
<br />
*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
<br />
*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
<br />
*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
<br />
*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
<br />
*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
<br />
*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
<br />
* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
<br />
* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#Barbara Giles: MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Rick Chappell: MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Naritoshi Kitamura: Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#Lynn Kistler: When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#Dan Welling: Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Jichun Zhang: Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#Matina Gkioulidou: Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#Andrew Menz: The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
<br />
* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
<br />
== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
<br />
Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Fascko<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
<br />
We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
<br />
* '''Student rewards'''<br />
<br />
=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=2017_GEM_Workshop&diff=35232017 GEM Workshop2017-06-15T20:15:55Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Detailed Schedule'''<br />
<br />
Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.<br />
<br />
'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.<br />
<br />
All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].<br />
<br />
== Monday, June 19 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere<br />
<br />
* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''<br />
<br />
1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"<br />
<br />
2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"<br />
<br />
3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"<br />
<br />
4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"<br />
<br />
5. Misha Sitnov<br />
<br />
6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update<br />
<br />
*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event<br />
<br />
*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms<br />
<br />
*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations<br />
<br />
*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements<br />
<br />
*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:<br />
<br />
#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)<br />
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)<br />
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)<br />
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time) <br />
<br />
We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!<br />
<br />
==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''<br />
<br />
*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability<br />
<br />
*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field<br />
<br />
*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study<br />
<br />
*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind<br />
<br />
*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
See the description for the first PM session<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''<br />
<br />
*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events<br />
<br />
*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events<br />
<br />
*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events<br />
<br />
*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events<br />
<br />
*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By<br />
<br />
*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations<br />
<br />
*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models<br />
<br />
*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions<br />
<br />
==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Tuesday, June 20 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''<br />
<br />
* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''<br />
<br />
First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.<br />
<br />
Additional speaker(s):<br />
George Khazanov<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''<br />
<br />
Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented. <br />
<br />
The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.<br />
<br />
We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''<br />
<br />
*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view<br />
<br />
*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients<br />
<br />
*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects<br />
<br />
*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets<br />
<br />
*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport<br />
<br />
*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Wednesday, June 21 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model<br />
<br />
* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”<br />
<br />
* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles<br />
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach<br />
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?<br />
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes<br />
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft<br />
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss<br />
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS<br />
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
*Chair: Shasha Zou Scribe: Barbara Giles<br />
<br />
<br />
#Overview of the Working Group Goals <br />
#Barbara Giles: MMS Measurements/Opportunities for Ionospheric Outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Rick Chappell: MMS Measurements of Lobal and Polar Wind outflow into the Plasma Sheet<br />
#Naritoshi Kitamura: Measurements from the March 4-8, 2016 Storm<br />
#Lynn Kistler: When do we need to consider the solar wind as a source for oxygen in the magnetosphere?<br />
#Dan Welling: Magnetospheric Modeling including Ionospheric Outflow<br />
#Jichun Zhang: Ionospheric outflow variations observed by MMS during the 23 June 2015 intense storm<br />
#Matina Gkioulidou: Low-energy (<keV) O+ ion outflow into the inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes observations<br />
#Andrew Menz: The role of convection in the buildup of the ring current pressure during the 17 March 2013 storm<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows<br />
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE<br />
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections<br />
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”<br />
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons<br />
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations<br />
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field<br />
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space<br />
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts<br />
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers<br />
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance<br />
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions<br />
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion<br />
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG<br />
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio<br />
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model<br />
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data<br />
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations<br />
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event<br />
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock<br />
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics<br />
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region<br />
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.<br />
<br />
* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars<br />
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model<br />
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS<br />
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results<br />
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements<br />
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC<br />
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index<br />
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD<br />
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling<br />
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms<br />
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow<br />
<br />
== Thursday, June 22 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause<br />
<br />
* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges<br />
<br />
=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”<br />
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES<br />
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations<br />
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks<br />
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms<br />
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation<br />
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks<br />
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere<br />
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013<br />
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====<br />
<br />
Location: Holley Ballroom<br />
<br />
(PLACE AGENDA HERE)<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====<br />
<br />
Location: Port VI-VIII<br />
<br />
''General Validation Session''<br />
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge<br />
- resources for model-data comparison and validation<br />
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation<br />
<br />
Speakers: <br><br />
Howard Singer <br><br />
Seth Claudepierre <br><br />
Yari Collado-Vega <br><br />
Gabor Fascko<br />
<br />
==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.<br />
<br />
We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.<br />
<br />
== Friday, June 23 ==<br />
<br />
=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Portsmouth IV-V<br />
<br />
* '''Student tutorial'''<br />
<br />
* '''Student rewards'''<br />
<br />
=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===<br />
<br />
Location: Amphitheater<br />
<br />
* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3459GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-05-26T20:17:06Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
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We want to begin collaborative efforts for examining the storm period chosen for community study -- 2016 Mar 4-8 (DOY 64-68). This will be the encouraged focus for M3I2 GEM Mini-Workshop at 2017 Fall AGU.<br />
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<h2>Session 1: Wednesday AM - Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? How does the structure and timing relate to Magnetospheric Effects within Mag. Models and observations. Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3458GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-05-26T20:06:44Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
<br><br />
<br />
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<br />
<h2>Session 1: Wednesday AM - Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? How does the structure and timing relate to Magnetospheric Effects within Mag. Models and observations. Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3457GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-05-26T20:05:24Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
<br><br />
<br />
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<br />
<h2>Session 1: Wednesday AM - Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma.<br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=GEM_M3-I2_Sessions_June_18-23,_2017%C2%A0&diff=3456GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 2017-05-19T20:47:14Z<p>Vinceeccles: New page: <h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1> <!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --> <h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2> [http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.g...</p>
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<div><h1> 2017 GEM Workshop June 18-23, 2017 </h1><br />
<!-- ============ CONVENORS SECTION ============== --><br />
<h2> Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions </h2><br />
[http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/barbara.giles Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL]<br />
<br><br />
[http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/shashaz Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP]<br />
<br><br />
[http://cass.usu.edu/htm/faculty-staff-students/research-scientists?memberID=10190 Vince Eccles, USU/CASS]<br />
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<h2>Session 1: Wednesday AM - Ion Outflow Effects on the Magnetosphere and Ring Current <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss model-measurement of ion outflow on the magnetosphere and ring current during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are open to any study of ion outflow effects in the magnetosphere and ring current. We encourage the integration of the observations from MMS and Van Allen probes with support from additional magnetospheric satellites (THEMIS, GEOTAIL, etc) when available. The intention is to move towards second-generation ion-outflow/magnetosphere modeling and understanding of the eventual distribution and history of the ionospheric ion component of magnetospheric plasma. <br />
<br />
<h2>Session 2: Thursday AM - Ion Outflow and the Ionospheric Boundary <br>Merged Modeling & Measurement</h2><br />
<br><br />
Description:<br />
<br><br />
The focus group leaders for Merged Modeling and Measurements for the Magnetosphere with Ionospheric Ion Outflow (M3-I2) invite speakers to discuss the physics, modeling, and measurements of ion outflow into the magnetosphere and inner magnetosphere during quiet, storm, and recovery times. We are striving to address the physics and modeling efficacy of ion outflow modeling into magnetospheric models. What is the ion outflow structure product from underlying ionosphere boundary conditions in subauroral, cusp, auroral, polar cap, dayside/nightside? How important are kinetic electron effects? Where are the regions and altitudes of wave-particle interactions for ion energization? Measurement and Model comparisons are encouraged.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3455M3I22017-05-19T20:28:05Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
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<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
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'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
*[[GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 18-23, 2017 ]]<br />
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'''M3-I2 Community Storm Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]] <br />
Storm 2 Still in discussion because ACE data interruptions (Possibly: 2016 May 6-10 (127-131))<br />
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==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
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'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
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'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
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'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
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'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
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'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
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(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
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(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
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(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
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(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
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'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
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- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
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- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
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- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
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- Special journal section(s).<br />
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'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
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- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
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- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
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- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
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- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
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- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
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'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
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Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
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We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
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Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3-I2_email_list&diff=3412M3-I2 email list2017-03-02T18:08:44Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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"Albarran, Robert" <robert.albarran@my.erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"andersson" <laila.andersson@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Andre, Mats" <mats.andre@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Angelopoulos"<vassilis@ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Daniel" <daniel.baker@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Jo" <jo.baker@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barakat, Abdallah" <abdallah.barakat@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barghouthi" <barghouthi@science.alquds.edu>;<br/><br />
"Berthelier, JeanJacques" <Jean-Jacques.Berthelier@latmos.ipsl.fr>;<br/><br />
"Birn" <jbirn@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky" <borovsky@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky"<jborovsky@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"bortnik" <jbortnik@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Burch, Jim" <jim.burch@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Carlson, Herbert" <herbert.c.carlson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Chandler,Michael O." <michael.o.chandler@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Chappell, Rick" <rick.chappell@vanderbilt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Chen" <mchen@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Chi, Peter" <pchi@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Clauer" <rclauer@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"clj" <clj@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"cmcully" <cmcully@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Coffey, Victoria N."<victoria.coffey@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cohen, Ian" <Ian.Cohen@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Craven,Paul D."(MSFC-EM50)<paul.craven@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cravens" <cravens@ku.edu>;<br/><br />
"cwc" <cwc@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Danadoras, Iannis" <Iannis.Dandouras@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Delcourt, Dominique" <dominique.delcourt@lpp.polytechnique.fr>;<br/><br />
"Donovan, Eric" <edonovan@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"dpawlows" <dpawlows@emich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Eccles, Vince" <vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu>; <br/><br />
"Eriksson, Anders" <anders.eriksson@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"fennell, Joseph" <joseph.fennell@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Fok,Mei-Ching H." <mei-ching.h.fok@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Fraser, Brian" <brian.fraser@newcastle.edu.au>;<br/><br />
"Fritz, Bruce" <bruce.fritz@wildcats.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Fuselier, Stephan" <sfuselier@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gallagher, Dennis L." <dennis.gallagher@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Ganuna" <ganuna@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Garcia-Sage, Katherine" <katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Gardner, Larry" <larry.gardner@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Giles, Barbara (GSFC-6730)" <barbara.giles@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Glocer, Alex" <alex.glocer-1@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Goldstein" <JGoldstein@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gombosi, Tamas" <tamas@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Haaland, Stein" <Stein.Haaland@ift.uib.no>;<br/><br />
"Heelis, Rod" <heelis@utdallas.edu>;<br/><br />
"hgodinez" <hgodinez@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"homakar" <homakar@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"howarth" <howarth@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Huba, Joseph" <huba@ppd.nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"Huddleston" <mhuddleston@trevecca.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hudson, Marry" <mary.hudson@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hughes" <hughes@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Immel" <immel@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Janhunen, Pekka" <Pekka.Janhunen@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Jiannan" <jiannan_tu@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"jsni" <jsni@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Khazanov, George V." <george.v.khazanov@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Kistler, Lynn" <lynn.kistler@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Kitamura, Naritoshi" <kitamura@stp.isas.jaxa.jp>;<br/><br />
"klecker" <klecker@mpe.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Kletzing" <craig-kletzing@uiowa.edu>;<br/><br />
"Knudsen, Dave" <Knudsen@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"korth" <korth@linmpi.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Krall, Jonathan" <jonathan.krall@nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"kronberg" <kronberg@mps.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"larry" <larry@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"lemaire" <lemaire@astr.ucl.ac.be>;<br/><br />
"Lessard, Marc" <marc.lessard@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"liemohn" <liemohn@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"loto, William" <william.lotko@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lu, Gang" <ganglu@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lund, Eric" <eric.lund@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lybekk, Bjorn" <bjorn.lybekk@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Lynch, Kristina" <Kristina.a.lynch@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lyon, John" <John.G.Lyon@Dartmouth.EDU>;<br/><br />
"Lysak, Bob" <bob@aurora.space.umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"MacDonald, Elizabeth A." <elizabeth.a.macdonald@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Maher, Aldayeh" <maher.aldayeh@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Main, Daniel" <daniel.main@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Martin" <martin@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Maruyama, Naomi" <naomi.maruyama@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mauk, Barry" <barry.mauk@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"McCollough, James" <james.mccollough@us.af.mil>;<br/><br />
"McFadden" <mcfadden@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"McPherron, Robert" <rmcpherron@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Merkin, Slava" <Slava.Merkin@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Moen, Joran" <j.i.moen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Moore, Thomas E." <thomas.e.moore@gsfc.nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mostafa" <mostafa@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Mouikis, Chris" <chris.mouikis@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Murphy, Kyle R." <kyle.r.murphy@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Nagai" <nagai@geo.titech.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Nilsson, Hans" <hans.nilsson@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Nose" <nose@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Omelche" <omelche@yahoo.com>;<br/><br />
"Omidi" <omidi@solanasci.com>;<br/><br />
"Orsini, Stefano" <stefano.orsini@ifsi-roma.inaf.it>;<br/><br />
"Palmroth, Minna" <Minna.Palmroth@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Pedersen, Arne" <arne.pedersen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Perlong" <nperlong@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Peterson, William (Bill)" <wkpeterson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Petrinec" <petrinec@lmsal.com>;<br/><br />
"Pollack, Ilana" <ilana.pollack@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Pollock, Craig" <craig@denaliscientific.org>;<br/><br />
"Raeder, J." <J.Raeder@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Redmon, Rob" <rob.redmon@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Richmond, Art" <richmond@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Ridley, Aaron" <ridley@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rilie" <rilie@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"rmt" <rmt@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rowland, Douglas" <douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Sanchez, Ennio" <ennio.sanchez@sri.com>;<br/><br />
"Sauvaud, Jean-Andre" <Jean-Andre.Sauvaud@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Sazykin" <sazykin@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Schulz" <mschulz43@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Schunk, Robert" <robert.schunk@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Seki" <seki@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Semeter, Josh" <jls@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"shw" <shw@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Simmsl" <simmsl@augsburg.edu>;<br/><br />
"Singer, Howard" <howard.singer@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Slapak, Rikard" <rikard.slapak@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Song, Paul" <paul_song@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"Spann, James F." <jim.spann@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Spence, Harlan" <harlan.spence@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Strangeway, Robert" <strange@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Streltsa" <streltsa@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Thomsen" <mthomsen@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"tian" <tian.luo.th@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Toffo" <toffo@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vahe" <vahe@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vania" <vania@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"Varney, Roger" <rvarney@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"welling" <dwelling@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wiltberger, Michael" <wiltbemj@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Winglee" <winglee@ess.washington.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wygant"<wygan001@umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yau" <yau@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Yhliu" <yhliu@atlas.sr.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yiqun Yu" <yiqunyu17@gmail.com><br/><br />
"Zettergren" <zettergm@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Jichun" <Jichun.Zhang@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Binzheng" <binzheng@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zou, Shasha" <shashaz@umich.edu>;<br/></div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-8_(64-68)&diff=3411Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)2017-03-01T23:16:50Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1 for GEM Workshop Sessions (2017)''' <br />
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'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
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We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
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The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
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*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]] <br />
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The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
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- Space-based:<br />
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* AMPERE currents<br />
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* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
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* MMS<br />
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* Van Allen Probes<br />
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* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
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- Ground-based:<br />
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* Magnetometers<br />
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* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
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* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
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* TEC<br />
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The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
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-Magnetosphere Models:<br />
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* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
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-Inner Magnetosphere Models:<br />
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* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
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* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
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* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
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- High-Latitude Ionosphere Models:<br />
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* Topside ion upflow<br />
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* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
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* Electron precipitation<br />
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* TEC Structure<br />
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- Polar Wind Models:<br />
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* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
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* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3-I2_email_list&diff=3410M3-I2 email list2017-03-01T23:08:47Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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*[[M3-I2Announcement]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 GEM-CEDAR Sessions]]<br />
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''Anyone may copy and paste from here to broadcast to the entire focus group. You are also welcome to add and subtract from the list below, maintaining the format and alphabetic ordering. FORMAT: double quotes around name, bra-kets around email address and comma at the end are all required for pasting into e-mail programs.'' <br />
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"Albarran, Robert" <robert.albarran@my.erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"andersson" <laila.andersson@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Andre, Mats" <mats.andre@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Angelopoulos"<vassilis@ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Daniel" <daniel.baker@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Jo" <jo.baker@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barakat, Abdallah" <abdallah.barakat@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barghouthi" <barghouthi@science.alquds.edu>;<br/><br />
"Berthelier, JeanJacques" <Jean-Jacques.Berthelier@latmos.ipsl.fr>;<br/><br />
"Birn" <jbirn@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky" <borovsky@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky"<jborovsky@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"bortnik" <jbortnik@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Burch, Jim" <jim.burch@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Carlson, Herbert" <herbert.c.carlson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Chandler,Michael O." <michael.o.chandler@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Chappell, Rick" <rick.chappell@vanderbilt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Chen" <mchen@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Chi, Peter" <pchi@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Clauer" <rclauer@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"clj" <clj@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"cmcully" <cmcully@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Coffey, Victoria N."<victoria.coffey@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cohen, Ian" <Ian.Cohen@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Craven,Paul D."(MSFC-EM50)<paul.craven@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cravens" <cravens@ku.edu>;<br/><br />
"cwc" <cwc@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Danadoras, Iannis" <Iannis.Dandouras@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Delcourt, Dominique" <dominique.delcourt@lpp.polytechnique.fr>;<br/><br />
"Donovan, Eric" <edonovan@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"dpawlows" <dpawlows@emich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Eccles, Vince" <vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu>; <br/><br />
"Engel, Miles" <miles.a.engel@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Engwall, Erik" <erik.engwall@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Eriksson, Anders" <anders.eriksson@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"fennell, Joseph" <joseph.fennell@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Fok,Mei-Ching H." <mei-ching.h.fok@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Fraser, Brian" <brian.fraser@newcastle.edu.au>;<br/><br />
"Fritz, Bruce" <bruce.fritz@wildcats.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Fuselier, Stephan" <sfuselier@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gallagher, Dennis L." <dennis.gallagher@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Ganuna" <ganuna@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Garcia-Sage, Katherine" <katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Gardner, Larry" <larry.gardner@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Giles, Barbara (GSFC-6730)" <barbara.giles@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Glocer, Alex" <alex.glocer-1@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Goldstein" <JGoldstein@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gombosi, Tamas" <tamas@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Haaland, Stein" <Stein.Haaland@ift.uib.no>;<br/><br />
"Heelis, Rod" <heelis@utdallas.edu>;<br/><br />
"hgodinez" <hgodinez@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"homakar" <homakar@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"howarth" <howarth@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Huba, Joseph" <huba@ppd.nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"Huddleston" <mhuddleston@trevecca.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hudson, Marry" <mary.hudson@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hughes" <hughes@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Immel" <immel@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Janhunen, Pekka" <Pekka.Janhunen@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Jiannan" <jiannan_tu@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"jsni" <jsni@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Khazanov, George V." <george.v.khazanov@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Kistler, Lynn" <lynn.kistler@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Kitamura, Naritoshi" <kitamura@stp.isas.jaxa.jp>;<br/><br />
"klecker" <klecker@mpe.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Kletzing" <craig-kletzing@uiowa.edu>;<br/><br />
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"Lessard, Marc" <marc.lessard@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"liemohn" <liemohn@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"loto, William" <william.lotko@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lu, Gang" <ganglu@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
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"Lybekk, Bjorn" <bjorn.lybekk@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Lynch, Kristina" <Kristina.a.lynch@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lyon, John" <John.G.Lyon@Dartmouth.EDU>;<br/><br />
"Lysak, Bob" <bob@aurora.space.umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"MacDonald, Elizabeth A." <elizabeth.a.macdonald@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Maher, Aldayeh" <maher.aldayeh@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Main, Daniel" <daniel.main@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Martin" <martin@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Maruyama, Naomi" <naomi.maruyama@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mauk, Barry" <barry.mauk@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"McCollough, James" <james.mccollough@us.af.mil>;<br/><br />
"McFadden" <mcfadden@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"McPherron, Robert" <rmcpherron@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Merkin, Slava" <Slava.Merkin@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Moen, Joran" <j.i.moen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Moore, Thomas E." <thomas.e.moore@gsfc.nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mostafa" <mostafa@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Mouikis, Chris" <chris.mouikis@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Murphy, Kyle R." <kyle.r.murphy@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Nagai" <nagai@geo.titech.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Nilsson, Hans" <hans.nilsson@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Nose" <nose@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Omelche" <omelche@yahoo.com>;<br/><br />
"Omidi" <omidi@solanasci.com>;<br/><br />
"Orsini, Stefano" <stefano.orsini@ifsi-roma.inaf.it>;<br/><br />
"Palmroth, Minna" <Minna.Palmroth@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Pedersen, Arne" <arne.pedersen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Perlong" <nperlong@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Peterson, William (Bill)" <wkpeterson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Petrinec" <petrinec@lmsal.com>;<br/><br />
"Pollack, Ilana" <ilana.pollack@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Pollock, Craig" <craig@denaliscientific.org>;<br/><br />
"Raeder, J." <J.Raeder@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Redmon, Rob" <rob.redmon@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Richmond, Art" <richmond@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Ridley, Aaron" <ridley@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rilie" <rilie@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"rmt" <rmt@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rowland, Douglas" <douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Sanchez, Ennio" <ennio.sanchez@sri.com>;<br/><br />
"Sauvaud, Jean-Andre" <Jean-Andre.Sauvaud@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Sazykin" <sazykin@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Schulz" <mschulz43@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Schunk, Robert" <robert.schunk@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Seki" <seki@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Semeter, Josh" <jls@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"shw" <shw@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Simmsl" <simmsl@augsburg.edu>;<br/><br />
"Singer, Howard" <howard.singer@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Slapak, Rikard" <rikard.slapak@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Song, Paul" <paul_song@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"Spann, James F." <jim.spann@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Spence, Harlan" <harlan.spence@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Strangeway, Robert" <strange@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Streltsa" <streltsa@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Thomsen" <mthomsen@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"tian" <tian.luo.th@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Toffo" <toffo@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vahe" <vahe@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vania" <vania@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"Varney, Roger" <rvarney@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"welling" <dwelling@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wiltberger, Michael" <wiltbemj@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Winglee" <winglee@ess.washington.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wygant"<wygan001@umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yau" <yau@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Yhliu" <yhliu@atlas.sr.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yiqun Yu" <yiqunyu17@gmail.com><br/><br />
"Zettergren" <zettergm@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Jichun" <Jichun.Zhang@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Binzheng" <binzheng@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zou, Shasha" <shashaz@umich.edu>;<br/></div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3409M3I22017-02-27T21:25:13Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
<br />
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<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
<br />
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<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''M3-I2 Community Storm Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]] <br />
Storm 2 Still in discussion because ACE data interruptions (Possibly: 2016 May 6-10 (127-131))<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3408M3I22017-02-27T21:24:56Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
<br />
{| style="width=50%;"<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''M3-I2 Community Storm Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]] <br />
#2 Still in discussion because ACE data interruptions (Possibly: 2016 May 6-10 (127-131))<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3407M3I22017-02-27T21:24:39Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
<br />
{| style="width=50%;"<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top;"|<br />
'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''M3-I2 Community Storm Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]] <br />
Still in discussion because ACE data interruptions (Possibly: 2016 May 6-10 (127-131))<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-8_(64-68)&diff=3406Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)2017-02-24T23:38:03Z<p>Vinceeccles: New page: '''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1''' '''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90''' We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm...</p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]] <br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- High-Latitude Ionosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Polar Wind Models:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3405M3I22017-02-24T23:37:55Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
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<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
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'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
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'''M3-I2 Community Storm Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]]<br />
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==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3404Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T23:36:56Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]] <br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- High-Latitude Ionosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Polar Wind Models:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_2:_2016_Oct_11-15_(285-289)&diff=3403Storm 2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)2017-02-24T21:34:49Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #2''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #2: 2016 October 11-15 (285-289) KDst = -104, Kp=6.3, F10.7=98, F107A=77'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (285,286), the day of the storm main phase (287), and two recovery days (288,289). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3402Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T21:34:29Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]] <br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- High-Latitude Ionosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Polar Wind Models:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3-I2_email_list&diff=3401M3-I2 email list2017-02-24T21:32:46Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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'''Links and information:'''<br />
*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
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'''2016 GEM/CEDAR:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2Announcement]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 GEM-CEDAR Sessions]]<br />
|}<br />
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''Anyone may copy and paste from here to broadcast to the entire focus group. You are also welcome to add and subtract from the list below, maintaining the format and alphabetic ordering. FORMAT: double quotes around name, bra-kets around email address and comma at the end are all required for pasting into e-mail programs.'' <br />
<br />
"Albarran, Robert" <robert.albarran@my.erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"andersson" <laila.andersson@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Andre, Mats" <mats.andre@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Angelopoulos"<vassilis@ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Daniel" <daniel.baker@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Jo" <jo.baker@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barakat, Abdallah" <abdallah.barakat@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barghouthi" <barghouthi@science.alquds.edu>;<br/><br />
"Berthelier, JeanJacques" <Jean-Jacques.Berthelier@latmos.ipsl.fr>;<br/><br />
"Birn" <jbirn@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky" <borovsky@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky"<jborovsky@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"bortnik" <jbortnik@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Burch, Jim" <jim.burch@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Carlson, Herbert" <herbert.c.carlson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Chandler,Michael O." <michael.o.chandler@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Chappell, Rick" <rick.chappell@vanderbilt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Chen" <mchen@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Chi, Peter" <pchi@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Clauer" <rclauer@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"clj" <clj@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"cmcully" <cmcully@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Coffey, Victoria N."<victoria.coffey@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cohen, Ian" <Ian.Cohen@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Craven,Paul D."(MSFC-EM50)<paul.craven@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cravens" <cravens@ku.edu>;<br/><br />
"cwc" <cwc@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Danadoras, Iannis" <Iannis.Dandouras@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Delcourt, Dominique" <dominique.delcourt@lpp.polytechnique.fr>;<br/><br />
"Donovan, Eric" <edonovan@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"dpawlows" <dpawlows@emich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Eccles, Vince" <vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu>; <br/><br />
"Engel, Miles" <miles.a.engel@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Engwall, Erik" <erik.engwall@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Eriksson, Anders" <anders.eriksson@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"fennell, Joseph" <joseph.fennell@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Fok,Mei-Ching H." <mei-ching.h.fok@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Fraser, Brian" <brian.fraser@newcastle.edu.au>;<br/><br />
"Fritz, Bruce" <bruce.fritz@wildcats.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Fuselier, Stephan" <sfuselier@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gallagher, Dennis L." <dennis.gallagher@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Ganuna" <ganuna@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Garcia-Sage, Katherine" <katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Gardner, Larry" <larry.gardner@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Giles, Barbara (GSFC-6730)" <barbara.giles@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Glocer, Alex" <alex.glocer-1@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Goldstein" <JGoldstein@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gombosi, Tamas" <tamas@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Haaland, Stein" <stein.haaland@issi.unibe.ch>;<br/><br />
"Heelis, Rod" <heelis@utdallas.edu>;<br/><br />
"hgodinez" <hgodinez@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"homakar" <homakar@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"howarth" <howarth@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Huba, Joseph" <huba@ppd.nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"Huddleston" <mhuddleston@trevecca.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hudson, Marry" <mary.hudson@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hughes" <hughes@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Immel" <immel@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Janhunen, Pekka" <Pekka.Janhunen@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Jiannan" <jiannan_tu@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"jsni" <jsni@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Khazanov, George V." <george.v.khazanov@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Kistler, Lynn" <lynn.kistler@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Kitamura, Naritoshi" <kitamura@stp.isas.jaxa.jp>;<br/><br />
"klecker" <klecker@mpe.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Kletzing" <craig-kletzing@uiowa.edu>;<br/><br />
"Knudsen, Dave" <Knudsen@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"korth" <korth@linmpi.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Krall, Jonathan" <jonathan.krall@nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"kronberg" <kronberg@mps.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"larry" <larry@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"lemaire" <lemaire@astr.ucl.ac.be>;<br/><br />
"lenn" <lenn@mail.spasci.com>;<br/><br />
"Lessard, Marc" <marc.lessard@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"liemohn" <liemohn@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"loto, William" <william.lotko@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lu, Gang" <ganglu@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lund, Eric" <eric.lund@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lybekk, Bjorn" <bjorn.lybekk@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Lynch, Kristina" <Kristina.a.lynch@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lyon, John" <John.G.Lyon@Dartmouth.EDU>;<br/><br />
"Lysak, Bob" <bob@aurora.space.umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"MacDonald, Elizabeth A." <elizabeth.a.macdonald@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Maher, Aldayeh" <maher.aldayeh@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Main, Daniel" <daniel.main@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Martin" <martin@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Maruyama, Naomi" <naomi.maruyama@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mauk, Barry" <barry.mauk@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"McCollough, James" <james.mccollough@us.af.mil>;<br/><br />
"McFadden" <mcfadden@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"McPherron, Robert" <rmcpherron@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Merkin, Slava" <Slava.Merkin@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Moen, Joran" <j.i.moen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Moore, Thomas E." <thomas.e.moore@gsfc.nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mostafa" <mostafa@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Mouikis, Chris" <chris.mouikis@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Murphy, Kyle R." <kyle.r.murphy@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Nagai" <nagai@geo.titech.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Nilsson, Hans" <hans.nilsson@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Nose" <nose@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Omelche" <omelche@yahoo.com>;<br/><br />
"Omidi" <omidi@solanasci.com>;<br/><br />
"Orsini, Stefano" <stefano.orsini@ifsi-roma.inaf.it>;<br/><br />
"Palmroth, Minna" <Minna.Palmroth@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Pedersen, Arne" <arne.pedersen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Perlong" <nperlong@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Peterson, William (Bill)" <wkpeterson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Petrinec" <petrinec@lmsal.com>;<br/><br />
"Pollack, Ilana" <ilana.pollack@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Pollock, Craig" <craig@denaliscientific.org>;<br/><br />
"Raeder, J." <J.Raeder@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Redmon, Rob" <rob.redmon@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Richmond, Art" <richmond@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Ridley, Aaron" <ridley@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rilie" <rilie@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"rmt" <rmt@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rowland, Douglas" <douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Sanchez, Ennio" <ennio.sanchez@sri.com>;<br/><br />
"Sauvaud, Jean-Andre" <Jean-Andre.Sauvaud@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Sazykin" <sazykin@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Schulz" <mschulz43@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Schunk, Robert" <robert.schunk@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Seki" <seki@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Semeter, Josh" <jls@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"shw" <shw@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Simmsl" <simmsl@augsburg.edu>;<br/><br />
"Singer, Howard" <howard.singer@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Slapak, Rikard" <rikard.slapak@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Song, Paul" <paul_song@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"Spann, James F." <jim.spann@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Spence, Harlan" <harlan.spence@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Strangeway, Robert" <strange@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Streltsa" <streltsa@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Thomsen" <mthomsen@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"tian" <tian.luo.th@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Toffo" <toffo@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vahe" <vahe@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vania" <vania@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"Varney, Roger" <rvarney@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"welling" <dwelling@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wiltberger, Michael" <wiltbemj@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Winglee" <winglee@ess.washington.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wygant"<wygan001@umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yau" <yau@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Yhliu" <yhliu@atlas.sr.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yiqun Yu" <yiqunyu17@gmail.com><br/><br />
"Zettergren" <zettergm@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Jichun" <Jichun.Zhang@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Binzheng" <binzheng@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zou, Shasha" <shashaz@umich.edu>;<br/></div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3400Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T20:17:11Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- High-Latitude Ionosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Polar Wind Models:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3399Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T20:16:33Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere Models:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind Models:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3398Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T20:12:17Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, THEMIS, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS, THEMIS, GEOTAIL predictions as available<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3397M3I22017-02-24T19:50:52Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
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| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
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'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
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| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
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'''M3-I2 Community Storm Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_2:_2016_Oct_11-15_(285-289)&diff=3396Storm 2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)2017-02-24T19:50:25Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #2''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #2: 2016 October 11-15 (285-289) KDst = -104, Kp=6.3, F10.7=98, F107A=77'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (285,286), the day of the storm main phase (287), and two recovery days (288,289). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3395Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T19:49:37Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* TEC Structure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3394Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T19:48:42Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
* Temperature structure<br />
<br />
* Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_1:_2016_Mar_4-9_(64-68)&diff=3393Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)2017-02-24T19:47:51Z<p>Vinceeccles: New page: '''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1''' '''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90''' We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm...</p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
* Temperature structure<br />
<br />
* Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3392M3I22017-02-24T19:47:41Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
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<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
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'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
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'''M3-I2 Community Storms Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]]<br />
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==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_2:_2016_Oct_11-15_(285-289)&diff=3391Storm 2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)2017-02-24T19:46:20Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #2''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #2: 2016 October 11-15 (285-289) KDst = -104, Kp=6.3, F10.7=98, F107A=77'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (285,286), the day of the storm main phase (287), and two recovery days (288,289). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
[[FG: Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)|Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M<sup>3</sup>I<sup>2</sup>) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics]] M3-I2 Home Page<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
* Temperature structure<br />
<br />
* Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm_2:_2016_Oct_11-15_(285-289)&diff=3390Storm 2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)2017-02-24T19:44:29Z<p>Vinceeccles: New page: '''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #2'' '''Storm #2: 2016 October 11-15 (285-289) KDst = -104, Kp=6.3, F10.7=98, F107A=77''' We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to t...</p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #2''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #2: 2016 October 11-15 (285-289) KDst = -104, Kp=6.3, F10.7=98, F107A=77'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (285,286), the day of the storm main phase (287), and two recovery days (288,289). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
* Temperature structure<br />
<br />
* Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3389M3I22017-02-24T19:41:31Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
<br />
{| style="width=50%;"<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''M3-I2 Community Storms Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_#1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)]]<br />
<br />
*[[Storm_2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3388M3I22017-02-24T19:40:39Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
<br />
{| style="width=50%;"<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top;"|<br />
'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 1%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''M3-I2 Community Storms Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm_#1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm_#2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm&diff=3387Storm2017-02-24T19:39:20Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
* Temperature structure<br />
<br />
* Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm&diff=3386Storm2017-02-24T19:37:17Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
- Ground-based:<br />
<br />
* Magnetometers<br />
<br />
* Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
* SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
* TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
- Space-based:<br />
<br />
* AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
* DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
* MMS<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
* Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
- N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
* Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
* Temperature structure<br />
<br />
* Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
<br />
-Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
-Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm&diff=3385Storm2017-02-24T19:35:27Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
<br />
Ground-based:<br />
<br />
- Magnetometers<br />
<br />
- Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
- SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
- TEC<br />
<br />
<br />
Space-based:<br />
<br />
- AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
- DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
- MMS<br />
<br />
- Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
- Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
<br />
N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields:<br />
<br />
* Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
* Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
* Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
- Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
- Temperature structure<br />
<br />
- Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
* 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
<br />
Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
* 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
* Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
<br />
Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
* MMS predictions</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm&diff=3384Storm2017-02-24T19:33:26Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
Ground-based:<br />
<br />
- TEC<br />
<br />
- Magnetometers<br />
<br />
- Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
<br />
- SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
<br />
Space-based:<br />
<br />
- AMPERE currents<br />
<br />
- DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
<br />
- MMS<br />
<br />
- Van Allen Probes<br />
<br />
- Other satellites as available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields (in order of importance to M3-I2):<br />
<br />
- Topside ion upflow<br />
<br />
- Ionospheric convection potential<br />
<br />
- Electron precipitation<br />
<br />
- Vertical TEC Structuring<br />
<br />
- Temperature structure<br />
<br />
- Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
<br />
N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
- 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
- 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
- Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
<br />
- 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
<br />
- Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
- MMS predictions</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm&diff=3383Storm2017-02-24T19:31:55Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90'''<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
Ground-based:<br />
<br />
- TEC<br />
- Magnetometers<br />
- Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
- SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
Space-based:<br />
<br />
- AMPERE currents<br />
- DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
- MMS<br />
- Van Allen Probes<br />
- Other satellites if available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields (in order of importance to M3-I2):<br />
<br />
- Topside ion upflow<br />
- Ionospheric convection potential<br />
- Electron precipitation<br />
- Vertical TEC<br />
- Temperature structure<br />
- Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
- 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
- 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
- Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
- 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
- Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
- MMS predictions</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Storm&diff=3382Storm2017-02-24T19:29:43Z<p>Vinceeccles: New page: M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1 Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90 We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the d...</p>
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<div>M3-I2 Community Storm Study #1<br />
<br />
Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68) KDst = -98, Kp=6.3, F10.7=96, F107A=90<br />
<br />
We propose modeling and measuring the two quiet days prior to the storm (4,5), the day of the storm main phase (6), and two recovery days (7,8). <br />
<br />
The choice of this storm is based on the excellent measurement support of ground-based instrumentation and the reasonable support of magnetospheric satellites (MMS, Van Allen Probes). I choosing these two recent storms to encourage other validation focus groups within NSF-GEM and NSF-CEDAR communities to join in these model-measurement studies. This invitation includes magnetosphere, inner magnetosphere, ring current, polar wind outflow, high-latitude ionosphere & electrodynamics, and the full coupled system. <br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the collection of reduced data sets including ground-based and space-based data sets:<br />
<br />
Ground-based:<br />
<br />
- TEC<br />
- Magnetometers<br />
- Incoherent Scatter Radar Ne, Te, Ti profiles<br />
- SuperDARN line-of-sight<br />
<br />
Space-based:<br />
<br />
- AMPERE currents<br />
- DMSP j/4 electron precipitation & cross-track drifts<br />
- MMS<br />
- Van Allen Probes<br />
- Other satellites if available (Geotail, ...)<br />
<br />
The M3-I2 focus group leaders are also committed to helping the GEM/CEDAR community in the merging of models and sharing of results. We anticipate several nominal output fields but are open to new suggestions of important shared fields and benchmark results.<br />
<br />
N/S high-latitude ionosphere fields (in order of importance to M3-I2):<br />
<br />
- Topside ion upflow<br />
- Ionospheric convection potential<br />
- Electron precipitation<br />
- Vertical TEC<br />
- Temperature structure<br />
- Penetration electric fields<br />
<br />
N/S Polar Wind fields:<br />
<br />
- 2D Ion outflow flux at 2.5 Re<br />
- 2D Ion N, V, T at 2.5 Re<br />
<br />
Inner Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
- Calculated Dst and Ring Current<br />
- 2D Ne, [O+], [H+], [He+] densities in equatorial plane<br />
- Van Allen Probe predictions of HOPE instrument<br />
<br />
Magnetosphere:<br />
<br />
- MMS predictions</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3381M3I22017-02-24T18:52:59Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
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<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
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| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
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'''M3-I2 Community Storms Studies:'''<br />
*[[Storm #1: 2016 Mar 4-9 (64-68)]]<br />
*[[Storm #2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289)]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3I2&diff=3380M3I22017-02-24T17:33:18Z<p>Vinceeccles: /* Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) */</p>
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<div>== Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2) ==<br />
<br />
{| style="width=50%;"<br />
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'''LINKS AND INFORMATION:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2 email list]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
*[http://sw04.spaceweather.usu.edu/~eccles/M3I2/index.html M3-I2 Web Support]<br />
<br />
| style="background:white; width: 2%;"|<br />
<br />
| style="background:lightgrey; border: 1px; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: darkgrey; width:25%; vertical-align:top"|<br />
'''MEETINGS:'''<br />
*[[GEM/CEDAR M3-I2 Sessions]]<br />
*[https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12921|SM014 2016 Fall AGU Session]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==== NEW FOCUS GROUP, STARTING YEAR 1 OF 5 ====<br />
<br />
'''CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical):'''<br />
<br />
'''Vince Eccles''', Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State University, vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu <br />
<br />
'''Barbara Giles''', Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, barbara.giles@nasa.gov<br />
<br />
'''Shasha Zou''', Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), University of Michigan, shashaz@umich.edu <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''GOAL:''' Our goal is to understand the role of the ionosphere in populating the magnetosphere with plasma and the magnetospheric dynamics that are influenced by this process. Key components of this goal:<br />
<br />
(1) refined outflow models through comparison to measurements and inter-model comparisons<br />
<br />
(2) merge GGCMs with coupled ion-outflow models<br />
<br />
(3) quantitative and qualitative understanding of the ion upflow and the effects of ion outflow on plasma sheet, ring current, substorm dynamics<br />
<br />
(4) Decadal Survey recommendations for M-I studies & future satellite missions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DELIVERABLES:''' <br />
<br />
- Furthering the development of mature Merged GGCM models of the ionosphere-thermosphere, polar wind, and magnetosphere AND encouragement/support for the steady development of OpenGGCM. <br />
<br />
- Inclusion of specific data sets of Merged Model and Measurement comparisons. These spacecraft and ground-based data sets will strive to present quiet time and active time periods with a range of season and solar cycle for comparison against the merged model results.<br />
<br />
- GEM GGCM modeling challenge, including models specific to most urgent, focused science questions to be solved<br />
<br />
- Special journal section(s).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''KEY NEW FEATURES:''' <br />
<br />
- Refining the physics of ionospheric ion energization through the examination of data and comparisons of different Polar Wind models.<br />
<br />
- Differentiating the influence of ion outflow on regions of the magnetosphere ring current, tail substorm physics, dayside magnetopause including plasmaspheric plumes, outflow through lobes into plasma sheet. <br />
<br />
- Engaging the new and growing community by identifying open questions and potential approaches, to further develop the underlying physics embedded the Polar Wind Models and GGCM’s. <br />
<br />
- Leveraging new data sets for model-data comparisons (ePOP, MMS, RBSP).<br />
<br />
- Including ionospheric datasets to examine GGCM drivers and lower boundary conditions of the ionosphere (SuperDARN, GPS-TEC, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Sounding Rocket, … ). Best accomplished through collaborations with CEDAR community.<br />
<br />
'''TOPIC SUMMARY:'''<br />
<br />
Over the past four decades it has become progressively more obvious that the Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, the understanding of the strength and dynamics of the outflow of ionospheric particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low energy particles. Our current need is to first understand the origin, energization, and dynamics of these particles from the topside ionosphere through both measurement and merged modeling. It is necessary examine these processes using two approaches to build and test an accurate GGCM that can be used to predict ionosphere-magnetosphere coupled dynamics. This goal is the principal motivation for this proposed GEM focus group.<br />
<br />
We intend to bring together an international group of experimentalists and modelers to study the physics of the ionospheric source and the effects of populating the magnetosphere with ionospheric plasma. A previous GEM focus group brought together data and models to provide a first look into the topic by demonstrating the importance of ionospheric outflow, but it revealed deep differences between different models and between data and models. This new GEM focus will address model differences and comparisons with data from new satellite missions: the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the E-POP ionospheric outflow mission. To refine the study of the different ionospheric outflow models we intend to include ionospheric spacecraft and ground-based data to properly account for the ionospheric boundary below the energization of the ion outflow. Completion and inter-comparison of these merged models will be an important part of this proposed focus group activity. <br />
<br />
Importantly, the new availability of the E-POP and MMS data is ideal for comparison with the merged models. The unique and extensive capabilities of the four spacecraft MMS mission will bring a comprehensive set of plasma instrument techniques that will permit the measurement of the low energy outflowing ionospheric plasma and observe its progressive energization in the lobes, the plasma sheet, and the ring current. The MMS orbits are ideal to follow the outflow of the plasma from the ionosphere across the polar cap and the lobes of the tail and into the plasma sheet region where it is energized and transported Earthward becoming the warm plasma cloak and the ring current. Being able to measure this process and to compare it with the evolving merged models will an important component of GEM activities over the 5 years of the focus area.</div>Vinceeccleshttps://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=M3-I2_email_list&diff=3299M3-I2 email list2016-11-29T18:31:25Z<p>Vinceeccles: </p>
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'''Links and information:'''<br />
*[[M3I2|Back to M3I2]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Modeling Assets]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 Measurements Assets]]<br />
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'''2016 GEM/CEDAR:'''<br />
*[[M3-I2Announcement]]<br />
*[[M3-I2 GEM-CEDAR Sessions]]<br />
|}<br />
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''Anyone may copy and paste from here to broadcast to the entire focus group. You are also welcome to add and subtract from the list below, maintaining the format and alphabetic ordering. FORMAT: double quotes around name, bra-kets around email address and comma at the end are all required for pasting into e-mail programs.'' <br />
<br />
"Albarran, Robert" <robert.albarran@my.erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"andersson" <laila.andersson@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Andre, Mats" <mats.andre@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Angelopoulos"<vassilis@ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Daniel" <daniel.baker@lasp.colorado.edu>;<br/><br />
"Baker, Jo" <jo.baker@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barakat, Abdallah" <abdallah.barakat@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Barghouthi" <barghouthi@science.alquds.edu>;<br/><br />
"Berthelier, JeanJacques" <Jean-Jacques.Berthelier@latmos.ipsl.fr>;<br/><br />
"Birn" <jbirn@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky" <borovsky@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Borovsky"<jborovsky@spacescience.org>;<br/><br />
"bortnik" <jbortnik@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Burch, Jim" <jim.burch@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Carlson, Herbert" <herbert.c.carlson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Chandler,Michael O." <michael.o.chandler@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Chappell, Rick" <rick.chappell@vanderbilt.edu>;<br/><br />
"Chen" <mchen@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Chi, Peter" <pchi@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Clauer" <rclauer@vt.edu>;<br/><br />
"clj" <clj@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"cmcully" <cmcully@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Coffey, Victoria N."<victoria.coffey@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cohen, Ian" <Ian.Cohen@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Craven,Paul D."(MSFC-EM50)<paul.craven@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Cravens" <cravens@ku.edu>;<br/><br />
"cwc" <cwc@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Danadoras, Iannis" <Iannis.Dandouras@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Delcourt, Dominique" <dominique.delcourt@lpp.polytechnique.fr>;<br/><br />
"Donovan, Eric" <edonovan@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"dpawlows" <dpawlows@emich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Eccles, Vince" <vince.eccles@aggiemail.usu.edu>; <br/><br />
"Engel, Miles" <miles.a.engel@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Engwall, Erik" <erik.engwall@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"Eriksson, Anders" <anders.eriksson@irfu.se>;<br/><br />
"fennell, Joseph" <joseph.fennell@aero.org>;<br/><br />
"Fok,Mei-Ching H." <mei-ching.h.fok@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Fraser, Brian" <brian.fraser@newcastle.edu.au>;<br/><br />
"Fritz, Bruce" <bruce.fritz@wildcats.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Fuselier, Stephan" <sfuselier@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gallagher, Dennis L." <dennis.gallagher@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Ganuna" <ganuna@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Garcia-Sage, Katherine" <katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Gardner, Larry" <larry.gardner@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Giles, Barbara (GSFC-6730)" <barbara.giles@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Glocer, Alex" <alex.glocer-1@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Goldstein" <JGoldstein@swri.edu>;<br/><br />
"Gombosi, Tamas" <tamas@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Haaland, Stein" <stein.haaland@issi.unibe.ch>;<br/><br />
"Heelis, Rod" <heelis@utdallas.edu>;<br/><br />
"hgodinez" <hgodinez@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"homakar" <homakar@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"howarth" <howarth@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Huba, Joseph" <huba@ppd.nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"Huddleston" <mhuddleston@trevecca.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hudson, Marry" <mary.hudson@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Hughes" <hughes@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Immel" <immel@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"Janhunen, Pekka" <Pekka.Janhunen@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Jiannan" <jiannan_tu@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"jsni" <jsni@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Khazanov, George V." <george.v.khazanov@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Kistler, Lynn" <lynn.kistler@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Kitamura, Naritoshi" <kitamura@stp.isas.jaxa.jp>;<br/><br />
"klecker" <klecker@mpe.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Kletzing" <craig-kletzing@uiowa.edu>;<br/><br />
"Knudsen, Dave" <Knudsen@ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"korth" <korth@linmpi.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"Krall, Jonathan" <jonathan.krall@nrl.navy.mil>;<br/><br />
"kronberg" <kronberg@mps.mpg.de>;<br/><br />
"larry" <larry@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"lemaire" <lemaire@astr.ucl.ac.be>;<br/><br />
"lenn" <lenn@mail.spasci.com>;<br/><br />
"Lessard, Marc" <marc.lessard@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"liemohn" <liemohn@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"loto, William" <william.lotko@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lu, Gang" <ganglu@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lybekk, Bjorn" <bjorn.lybekk@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Lynch, Kristina" <Kristina.a.lynch@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Lyon, John" <John.G.Lyon@Dartmouth.EDU>;<br/><br />
"Lysak, Bob" <bob@aurora.space.umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"MacDonald, Elizabeth A." <elizabeth.a.macdonald@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Maher, Aldayeh" <maher.aldayeh@swri.org>;<br/><br />
"Main, Daniel" <daniel.main@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Martin" <martin@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Maruyama, Naomi" <naomi.maruyama@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mauk, Barry" <barry.mauk@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"McCollough, James" <james.mccollough@us.af.mil>;<br/><br />
"McFadden" <mcfadden@ssl.berkeley.edu>;<br/><br />
"McPherron, Robert" <rmcpherron@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Merkin, Slava" <Slava.Merkin@jhuapl.edu>;<br/><br />
"Moen, Joran" <j.i.moen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Moore, Thomas E." <thomas.e.moore@gsfc.nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Mostafa" <mostafa@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Mouikis, Chris" <chris.mouikis@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Murphy, Kyle R." <kyle.r.murphy@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Nagai" <nagai@geo.titech.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Nilsson, Hans" <hans.nilsson@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Nose" <nose@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Omelche" <omelche@yahoo.com>;<br/><br />
"Omidi" <omidi@solanasci.com>;<br/><br />
"Orsini, Stefano" <stefano.orsini@ifsi-roma.inaf.it>;<br/><br />
"Palmroth, Minna" <Minna.Palmroth@fmi.fi>;<br/><br />
"Pedersen, Arne" <arne.pedersen@fys.uio.no>;<br/><br />
"Perlong" <nperlong@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Peterson, William (Bill)" <wkpeterson@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Petrinec" <petrinec@lmsal.com>;<br/><br />
"Pollack, Ilana" <ilana.pollack@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Pollock, Craig" <craig@denaliscientific.org>;<br/><br />
"Raeder, J." <J.Raeder@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Redmon, Rob" <rob.redmon@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Richmond, Art" <richmond@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Ridley, Aaron" <ridley@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rilie" <rilie@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"rmt" <rmt@atmos.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Rowland, Douglas" <douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov>; <br/><br />
"Sanchez, Ennio" <ennio.sanchez@sri.com>;<br/><br />
"Sauvaud, Jean-Andre" <Jean-Andre.Sauvaud@cesr.fr>;<br/><br />
"Sazykin" <sazykin@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Schulz" <mschulz43@gmail.com>;<br/><br />
"Schunk, Robert" <robert.schunk@usu.edu>;<br/><br />
"Seki" <seki@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Semeter, Josh" <jls@bu.edu>;<br/><br />
"shw" <shw@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp>;<br/><br />
"Simmsl" <simmsl@augsburg.edu>;<br/><br />
"Singer, Howard" <howard.singer@noaa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Slapak, Rikard" <rikard.slapak@irf.se>;<br/><br />
"Song, Paul" <paul_song@uml.edu>;<br/><br />
"Spann, James F." <jim.spann@nasa.gov>;<br/><br />
"Spence, Harlan" <harlan.spence@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Strangeway, Robert" <strange@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Streltsa" <streltsa@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Thomsen" <mthomsen@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"tian" <tian.luo.th@dartmouth.edu>;<br/><br />
"Toffo" <toffo@rice.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vahe" <vahe@igpp.ucla.edu>;<br/><br />
"Vania" <vania@lanl.gov>;<br/><br />
"Varney, Roger" <rvarney@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"welling" <dwelling@umich.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wiltberger, Michael" <wiltbemj@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Winglee" <winglee@ess.washington.edu>;<br/><br />
"Wygant"<wygan001@umn.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yau" <yau@phys.ucalgary.ca>;<br/><br />
"Yhliu" <yhliu@atlas.sr.unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Yiqun Yu" <yiqunyu17@gmail.com><br/><br />
"Zettergren" <zettergm@erau.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Jichun" <Jichun.Zhang@unh.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zhang, Binzheng" <binzheng@ucar.edu>;<br/><br />
"Zou, Shasha" <shashaz@umich.edu>;<br/></div>Vinceeccles