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'''Chairs: Delores Knipp, Geoff Crowley, Stefan Eriksson, and Ramon Lopez'''

(delores.knipp at gmail.com)   (gcrowley at astraspace.net)
(eriksson at lasp.colorado.edu)   (relopez at uta.edu)


FACs and Energy Deposition (FED)

===GOAL===

''Explain the relation between enhanced dayside Poynting flux and field-aligned currents, sources of field-aligned currents in the solar wind and magnetosphere and their impacts in the ionosphere-thermosphere system''


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===Description===

Recent efforts to improve satellite drag prediction have revealed a set of events with anomalous thermospheric density signatures (B. Bowman, personal comm.).  These events are associated with interplanetary shocks and large in-the-ecliptic interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) values, often, but not exclusively, while the IMF BZ is positive (Knipp et al., GEM Meeting 2009).  Crowley et al. (2010) used the Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE) procedure to verify extreme values of Joule heating at the foot points of the near-cusp and polar cap field lines during such events  and associate them with unmodeled density enhancements.  A new Poynting flux data set from the DMSP F-15 satellite confirms the localized dayside energy input (Knipp et al., Work In Progress (WIP), 2010) and further links these events with instances of strong upward ion flow.  Although we cite mostly northward IMF literature below, such events also occur with neutral and slightly southward IMF in the presence of a large IMF BY component.

===Expected Activities and Research Topics===

We propose to investigate the disturbances described above.  There is a significant likelihood that such events direct energy into the dayside thermosphere with little energy input to the magnetotail.  Thus the Dst index, could remain unperturbed or even show storm recovery while the coupled dayside high-latitude region is greatly disturbed.  We anticipate the following will be fruitful research topics.

*Dayside energy sources and transport for events with large IMF By and Bx  (with Bz +/-)

*Dayside field-aligned current systems for large in-the-ecliptic IMF (By and Bx with Bz +/-)

*The location and nature of Poynting and particle energy deposition for IMF  Bz>0 and large BY

*The role of enhanced solar wind density and speed during such events

*The relation of such events to cusp region thermospheric density anomalies

*Overall energy contributions to the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere
 
*Methods for detecting such disturbances; indices vs. space based monitors

*More realistic MHD modeling of such disturbances

*Overall magnetospheric structure during such disturbances

*Daily and seasonal conductivity effects of high-latitude Joule heating events




==GEM Summer 2010 Meeting FED Topics==

The FED focus group will hold two sessions at the upcoming GEM Workshop (June 20-25) in Snowmass, covering data, theory, modeling aspects of the following topics:

*Dayside Poynting Flux, Joule Heating and Field Aligned Currents 

*Particle Energy Deposition on the Dayside

*Dissipation of Magnetospheric Energy in the Dayside Thermosphere

*Thermospheric Density Enhancements and Traveling Atmospheric/Ionospheric Disturbances

*Solar Wind Drivers for Extreme Dayside Poynting Flux Events


Session Highlights:
Session highlights

•	Multiple events under study or consideration—mostly during 2005 (Knipp)

•	Apparent relation to FACs adjacent to well-defined flow channels (AMIE, DMSP) (Eriksson and Crowley)

•	Conclusive evidence of large thermospheric density effects (CHAMP, AMIE & TIMEGCM-Crowley)

•	Evidence of reverse convection in both hemispheres during strong Bz+, Poynting Flux largest in sunlight       hemisphere (OPENGGCM and Cluster- Lu)

•	Likely relation to ion upwelling and ion outflows (Strangeway)

•	Success with initial MHD modeling (OPENGGCM-Li), (LFM-Wiltberger)

•	Additional/alternative possible cause: Bowshock current closure (Lopez)

•	New statistical summary of field-aligned currents from DMSP (Wing)

•	Discussion of importance/relation of open closed fields and field topology (Strangeway)

•	Discussion of By vs Bz effects on Dst (Mitchell)

•	Discussion of new global thermospheric heating empirical model (Weimer)

•	Discussion on rocket experiment results for oxygen upwelling in cusp (Jaynes)

•	Post session discussion of Joule heating (Song)  [[Image:Dayside_NBZ_heating_Song.pdf |thumb]]

•	Discussion of new observing opportunities AMPERE, AMISR, SWARM

•	Significant interest from broader GEM community ( Modes of Response, Ion Outflow, MI-coupling and GGCM FAs)

•	Two events adopted by GGCM metrics FA for further study:

            15 May 2005 and 9-11 July 2005 (Sheath/CME) 

•	Significant Interest during M-I Coupling Session at CEDAR

==Potential Event Study List with OMNIweb Data==

*Nov 7-10 2004 Two major storms in sequence  
     Second storm had prolonged interval of Large By
     OPENGGCM run completed for first storm
     [[Image:Nov_2004.pdf|alt=Nov_6-13_2004_OMNIweb_Data]]
     [[Image:DMSP_F-15_along_orbit_vertical_Poynting_Flux.pdf]]

*Jan 21 2005  Second storm of two-storm sequence
     This event had long interval of Bz+ with By large
     OPENGGCM run completed for second storm
     See OMNI_data below 


*May 15 2005  Isolated major storm
     This event had long interval of Bz+ with By and Bx large and rotating
[[Image:Ace_May15_2005.png |thumb]]
     See OMNI_data below and Eriksson et al., 2008 (c.f. DMSP ExB response on the right)
[[Image:Dmsp_exb_polar_20050515.jpg|thumb]]



*Jul 09-10 2005  Isolated major storm
     Long lead up with  more than 18 hr of moderate Bz-.
     See OMNI_data below   

*Aug 24 2005  Isolated major storm
     This event had long interval of Bz+ with By large and rotating
     TIMEGCM run completed for this event
     See OMNI_data below and Aug 24 DMSP D-15 Poynting Flux in thumbnail
     Crowley et al., 2010
     [[Image:Poynting Flux DMSP F-15.jpg|thumb]]

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[[Image:Jan_2005.gif|Jan_16-23_2005_OMNIweb_Data]]
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[[Image:May_2005.gif|May_14-18_2005_OMNIweb_Data]]

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[[Image:Jul_2005.gif|Jul_09-13_2005_OMNIweb_Data]]

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[[Image:Aug_2005.gif|Aug_23-26_2005_OMNIweb_Data]]