THEMIS/ARTEMIS SWT Meeting Spring 2012
Meeting Information
Presentations
March 21-23, 2012 at UCLA De Neve Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Schedule
Wednesday, March 21
Mission Updates & Programmatics (Vassilis, David)
News from HQ (Dennis Gallagher, Acting Program Scientist)
THEMIS – ERG Collaboration (Yoshizumi Miyoshi, STEL)
THEMIS/ARTEMIS Instrument status reports
FGM (Ferdinand)
SCM
EFI (John, Mike)
ESA
SST (Vassilis for Drew, Andrei)
GBO
Mission planning
Thursday, March 22
Joint session with IMC-II: Mission Synergy (lead by Yoshi Mioshi and A. Runov)
http://www.i-mp.org/conference/i-mp_2012/#program
Friday, March 23
I. Solar Wind, Magnetosheath, Dayside Science, Global Modes
Hui Zhang (UAF), Hot Flow Anomaly
Ferdinand Plaschke, Magnetopause surface waves: A THEMIS case compared to MHD theory PDF
Michael Hartinger, Observations of global modes outside the plasmasphere
Xinlin Li, Recent enhancements on ULF waves study
II. ARTEMIS & lunar science
Harlan Spence, CRaTER results at the Moon and opportunities for joint science with ARTEMIS PDF
Andrew Poppe, ARTEMIS observations of lunar pick-up ions in the terrestrial magnetotail PDF
III. ARTEMIS & tail
Shanshan Li, Two-point observations of plasmoid growth and expulsion PDF
Emmanuel Masongsong, THEMIS/ARTEMIS EPO PDF
IV. Plasma sheet, Aurora, MIC, Global current systems
Chih-Ping Wang, Ion anisotropy in the plasma sheet
Jenni Kissinger, Diversion of plasma due to high pressure in the inner magnetosphere during steady magnetospheric convection PDF
James Weygand, Spherical elementary current systems associated with north-south auroral arcs
Jonathan Rae, Properties of large- and small-scale currents in the magnetosphere and ionosphere surrounding substorm onset
Victor Sergeev, Observations of R2 currents associated with Substorm Current Wedge PDF
Stephen Mende, Pressure gradients and auroral currents
Xiaoyan Xing, On the Formation of Pre-Onset Azimuthal Pressure Gradient in the Near-Earth Plasma Sheet
Toshi Nishimura, Formation of substorm Pi 2: A coherent response to auroral streamers and currents
V. Near-Earth Plasma Sheet Transients
Victor Sergeev, Observation of kinetic ballooning/interchange instability signatures prior to breakup (on behalf of E.Panov, P.Pritchett et al.) PDF
Jiang Liu, Shape and Properties of the Dipolarization Front Current Sheet: Statistics PDF
Larry Lyons, Dipolarization fronts and substorms
Plans for the next THEMIS & ARTEMIS SWG