FG12. Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes

2008 GEM Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes[1]

Conveners: Vassilis Angelopoulos <vassilis @ucla.edu>, Shin Ohtani <Shin.Ohtani @ jhuapl.edu> and Kazuo Shiokawa <shiokawa@ stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

This is the first year for our new focus group, "Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes". We had 3 breakout sessions for three topical areas, that is, substorm onset timing, breakup aurora, and mapping.

This substorm-onset matrix contains all the presentations of GEM Substorm FG on June 24-25, 2010 as well as some previous references. It shows relevance of various observations/modelings to various substorm-onset physical models. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.