GEM M3-I2 Sessions June 24-28, 2019

2018 GEM Workshop June 17-23, 2018

Co-Chairs for M3-I2 Sessions

Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC/GPL
Shasha Zou, U. of Michigan/CLaSP
Rick Chappell, emeritus Vanderbilt Univ / emeritus NASA MSFC

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Shall we reboot our collaborative efforts on the Storm Challenges?

• Storm 1: 2016 Mar 4-8 (DOY 64-68)
• Storm 2: 2016 Oct 11-15 (285-289) <-- some work has been done on this event
• Possibly: 2016 May 6-10 (127-131)
• Possibly: 2018 Aug 25-31
  • Especially including new and newly-restored data sets
  • Other specialized events/studies are welcome, especially those speaking to statistical states. It is important to study not only storm times, but also non-storm times in which the ionosphere is feeding the plasma sheet and building it up steadily prior to any reconnection or storm activity.

This will also be a focus for M3I2 GEM Mini-Workshop at 2019 Fall AGU.

Session 1: Tuesday 1:30PM - Room - Main Focus: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Merged Models as a Context for the Observations

• Chair: Rick Chappell -- Scribe: Barbara Giles

1. Rick Chappell, Focus Group co-Chair: Overview and Updates on the Working Group Goals
2. Invited: Lynn Kistler of UNH: Recent Outflow Observations using MMS, Cluster, and also ARASE!
3. additional participants welcome! you are welcome to add your contribution here or to email barbara.giles@nasa.gov

Session 2: Thursday 1:30 PM - Room tbd -- Observations/Physical Processes of the Coupled Ionosphere-Magnetosphere System as a Consequence to Upflow/Outflow

• Chair: Shasha Zou -- Scribe: Rick Chappell

1. Invited: Joe Borovsky of SSI in Boulder: Impacts of ionospheric plasmas on magnetospheric behavior
2. John Wygant of Univ MN: Observations of Strong Field-aligned Poynting Flux in the Earth's Magnetosphere and Its Role in the Efficient Driving of Intense Outflowing Ion Energy Fluxes in the Cusp and Tail : Examples of "Alfvenic" Poynting Flux Driven Winds
3. TBD, Shen Tian
4. Rick Chappell: MMS FPI observations of ion outflows
5. Naritoshi Kitamura of the Univ of Tokyo: Cold ion observations by MMS at the lobe and near PSBL
6. Naritoshi Kitamura of the Univ of Tokyo: In-situ Observation Plans in Next Japanese Space Exploration Mission(FACTORS) for Ion Acceleration/Heating Processes in the Terrestrial Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling System" on behalf of Prof. Masafumi Hirahara
7. additional participants welcome! you are welcome to add your contribution here or to email barbara.giles@nasa.gov and shashaz@umich.edu

Session 3: Thursday 3:30 PM - Room tbd -- Advances/Issues in Modeling of the Coupled Ionosphere-Magnetosphere System and Model-Data Comparisons

• Chair: Barbara Giles -- Scribe: Shasha Zou

1. Invited: Alex Glocer of NASA Goddard: Ionospheric Contributions to the Magnetosphere - blue H+ vs red H+!
2. Invited: Roger Varney of SRI: title is forthcoming
3. Jonathan Krall: SAMI3 simulations suggest a connection between the tongue of ionization and the plasmasphere plume.
4. additional participants welcome! you are welcome to add your contribution here or to email barbara.giles@nasa.gov and shashaz@umich.edu

Session 4: Friday 10:30 AM - Room tbd -- Focus Group Planning Session — Further work on the Community Storm Studies for Upflow/Outflow

• Chair: Rick Chappell -- Scribe: Barbara Giles

1. Rick Chappell, Focus Group co-Chair emeritus: Summary of Progess, thoughts for the next year
2. Barbara Giles of NASA Goddard Additional access to Polar TIDE outflow data base, new tools, new data products
3. additional participants welcome! you are welcome to add your contribution here or to email barbara.giles@nasa.gov and shashaz@umich.edu
4. Open Discussion of Storm Studies
5. Open Discussion of Plans

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