FG: Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques

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2014 Announcement

Aarrr Mapping Mateys! We will be having 3 sessions at this year’s GEM in ye olde Ports Ballroom VI-VIII.

• • Wed. 3:30 – 5:00 The open-closed boundary mapping challenge (including presentations by Liz MacDonald, Shasha Zou, Alex Glocer and more; primary event of interest Nov 14, 2012)
  • Thur. 10:30 - 12:15 BARREL mapping challenge (led by Robyn Millan events of interest include Jan 26 & Feb 2 2013; Jan 3–7 2014)
  • Thurs. 1:30 – 3:00 A joint session with the Metrics and Validation focus group (led by Eric Donovan and Lutz Rastaetter) We are soliciting input from researchers interested in developing quantitative tests of model-based magnetic mapping.

There is also room for presentations on other mapping related topics. Please let us know if you would like to join in these exciting discussions and we will see you soon in Portsmouth, VA.

Liz, Rrrobyn, and Errric

2013 GEM Tentative Agenda Lots of discussion is highly encouraged! If you want to speak please get in touch with Liz, Robyn, or Eric.

• Session 1: RBSP Mapping Challenges, Monday 10:30, Salon D
  • Focus on events: Nov 14 (lobe crossings), Jan 17, Jan 26, Feb 2 (BARREL and RBSP wave conjunctions), Mar 17 (geomagnetic storm)
  • Alexa Halford, BARREL
  • Toshi Nishimura, RBSP pulsating aurora mapping
  • Liz MacDonald, HOPE Nov 14 lobes
  • Joe Fennell , Interesting MAGEIS observations
  • Mei-Ching Fok, modeling of Nov 14 lobe event
  • Jo Baker, SuperDARN observations of ionospheric electric fields conjugate to RBSP
  • Asher Pembroke, A CCMC LFM implementation of mapping coordinates
• Session 2: Mapping Challenge Potpourri, Monday 1:30, Salon D
  • Lutz Rastaetter, CCMC FAST boundary crossings
  • Mike Henderson, PSD matching to test B-field models
  • Shasha Zou, Comprehensive Assessment of SWMF in Magnetic Mapping
  • Yue Chao, 3D force balance magnetic field mode
  • Mike Schultz, Source-Surface Modeling of Planetary Magnetospheres
  • Jone Peter Reistad, auroral non-conjugacy
• Session 3: Joint with Substorm Expansion Onset FG, Tuesday 10:30, Salon D
  • Matina Gkioulidou, RBSP observations of injections
  • Xiangning Chu, UCLA, Magnetic perturbations of the substorm current wedge
  • Phil Erickson (given by Robyn Millan), Ground-based measurements during BARREL substorms and connection to in situ electric fields
  • Tetsuo Motoba, Conjugate observations of onset auroral dynamics
  • Eric Donovan, Identifying magnetic conjugacy between satellites and the ground during onset

• Talks are posted here!

2012 Mini GEM Sunday Dec 2, 2012 from 2:30 to 4:30 PM

• Speakers included Bob McPherron and Howard Singer (super-substorm 4/5/10), Chao Yue (UCLA, 3d force balance modeling during substorm growth phase), James Weygand for Feifei Jiang, Eric Donovan (Statistics of boundary crossings), Allison Jaynes (pulsating aurora mapping), Robyn Millan (BARREL mapping preview), James Weygand for James Weygand (omega band mapping), Ruth Skoug (RBSP HOPE Lobe crossings), and Lutz Rastaetter (for CCMC).
• Talks are posted here!

2012 GEM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday June 18 - 20, 2012 from 3:30 to 5:00 PM Goal/Overview Summary

• Session 1: Magnetic Mapping Techniques (Co-chairs: Liz MacDonald and Robyn Millan) Salon D
  • Natalia Ganushkina, Interhemispheric magnetic conjugacy
  • Chia-Lin Huang, Comparison of different field models to measured fields at GOES
  • Mike Henderson, Tutorial on Event-Based Modeling (expanded version)
  • Kyungguk Min, New, rapid L* calculation
  • Jun Liang, In-situ calculation of magnetic field-line curvature and its application in M-I mapping
  • Gang Lu, Magnetic field modeling constrained by GOES and THEMIS
  • Rob Redmon, DMSP auroral boundaries
  • Joachim Birn, Tail modeling and ionosphere connection
  • Bob Strangeway, FAST consideration

• Session 2: Joint with Substorms, Late Growth Phase Mapping (Co-chairs: Eric Donovan and Shin Ohtani) Salon D
  • Shin Ohtani, Introduction
  • Toshi Nishimura, Mapping implications of the onset arc location relative to the Birkeland Currrents
  • Jun Liang, The magnetospheric "root" of the onset auroral arc
  • Larry Lyons, Mapping implications of the very thin auroral oval in the late growth phase
  • Jian Yang, Growth phase magnetic field model

• Session 3: CHALLENGE! (Co-chairs: Larry Kepko, Eric, Liz, and Robyn) Salon C
  • We'll present a few ideas on challenge suggestions. CCMC folks are very interested in facilitating a challenge. Robyn will also present a few thoughts on RBSP-centric upcoming mapping opportunities.
  • Event Lists
    • From T. Nishimura, Pulsating Aurora-Chorus point to point examples listed (GRL, 2011).
    • From N. Ganjushkina (Event-based examples, coming soon)
    • From M. Kuznetsova (CCMC examples, coming soon)
    • From E. Spanswick (THEMIS omega band or proton aurora, coming soon)

2011 Mini-GEM Sunday Dec. 4, 2011 from 2:30 to 4:30 PM, in the Franciscan I room.

• We would like to invite community participation in our session, by simply adding input to our survey forms on Mapping Science questions (http://bit.ly/vYuGc5) and Mapping Techniques (http://bit.ly/ucmMLQ). The survey results will be discussed at the mini-GEM and form the basis for planning of activities for the 2012 summer GEM Workshop. They will also be posted online (http://bit.ly/vPLlv9, http://bit.ly/uFw8Uz). We also welcome 1 slide presentations on specific questions or techniques if you wish. V. Papitashvili will give a brief intro to magnetic coordinate systems at the mini-GEM also.

We look forward to a productive discussion and thank you for your input in advance.

2011 GEM

• Magnetic Mapping Sessions Agenda for GEM/CEDAR 2011 (final)
• Magnetic Mapping Sessions talks by Donovan, Strangeway, Baker, Nishimura, Denton, Pembroke, Wang, and Merkin

Please send copies of presentations to Liz MacDonald (macdonald@lanl.gov)

2010 Mini-GEM

• Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques 2010 focus group proposal by Eric Donovan, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Robyn Millan

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