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Workshop Programme
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Saturday
5th September
Sunday
Morning Session*
6th September
Monday
7th September
Tuesday
8th September
Wednesday
INTRO
1 : CIRs and HSSs in the Solar
Wind
10th September
Friday
11th September
Saturday
12th September
Evening Session*
Conference
Registration
2 pm onwards
ICEBREAKER
6-7pm
Local Hike
2 : Large Scale Processes and
Periodicities
3: Radiation Belts, Ring Current,
Wave Particle Interactions
3 : Radiation Belts, Ring
Current, Wave Particle
Interactions
4: Particle Precipitation, Heating,
Winds, Composition
Boat Trip to
Windermere
OPEN DISCUSSION SESSION
9th September
Thursday
Afternoon
Workshop Dinner + Céilidh
Workshop Session: 1
Workshop Session: 2
Solar Wind and Coupling to
Inner Magnetosphere Response 1:
Geospace
Storms and Substorms
Workshop Session: 3
Workshop Session : 4
Inner Magnetosphere Response
Atmosphere/Ionosphere Response
Local Hike
2 : Sources and Loss
(and Summary)
Possible hike up Scafell Pike or Helvellyn, if enough people show interest
(undertaken on a personal basis).
* See below for session times.
Meeting Support kindly provided by:
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AIMS of the Workshop
The workshop is aimed at highlighting the current state of knowledge regarding High Speed Solar
Wind Streams and their interaction with Geospace - from the Earth’s atmosphere, out through the
Earth’s magnetosphere to the solar wind. Knowledge of this field has progressed significantly
during the past few years, and it is timely to bring together workers in this research area to discuss
recent progress, and the outstanding physics questions to focus on in the future.
The aim is to create a workshop-type atmosphere where frank discussion of current topics of
interest is encouraged. To maintain this format the workshop will be limited to a maximum of 40
delegates.
SCIENCE QUESTIONS
1. What determines solar wind/magnetosphere coupling efficiency during HSS?
How important are fluctuations in solar wind velocity, pressure, and magnetic field?
2. Are different magnetospheric modes more likely during high speed streams?
3. How are Pc5 waves made? Which process dominates?
Why are Pc5 waves so dominant in HSS events?
4. Which waves are the most important for acceleration/loss of radiation belt particles?
How can we quantify the relative wave-particle loss rates? What is the MLT dependence?
5. What is the electron energy dependence in response to HSS-driven acceleration and loss?
Does this vary with other drivers of acceleration and loss?
6. What response do high speed streams initiate within the atmosphere?
How can we test coupling mechanisms between different atmospheric regions?
7. Precipitation of energetic (>100 eV) electrons - what implications for the lower
atmosphere?
8. What are the ionospheric/atmospheric responses to particle precipitation?
Are there differences in these responses between HSS and other precipitation events?
9. What is the role of the ring current composition during HSS?
What is the main ring current injection mechanisms?
Why is the Dst response relatively weak (but of long duration) during HSSs?
The 2009 workshop will aim to address these questions (and others) and make genuine progress in
understanding HSS/Geospace interactions.
At the 2007 meeting we agreed to choose two events for coordinated study. These events were:
10-22 October 2003
10-16 November 2003
If you have data for these events, please bring it to the workshop.
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Sunday 6th September
2.00-6.00 pm
REGISTRATION:
6.00-7.00 pm
ICEBREAKER (University of Cumbria Reception).
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Monday 7th September : 8.45 am – 8.10 pm
SESSION 1 : CIRs and High Speed Streams in the Solar Wind
Chair: Mick Denton
8.45
Welcome : Meeting Logistics : Questions to be Answered : Progress since 2007
Mick Denton
9.00
Overview of CIRs in the Solar Wind
John Steinberg
9.40
The Reaction of the Magnetosphere to Coronal Interaction Regions: The Denton-Borovsky
Superposed Epoch Studies
Joe Borovsky
10.20-10.40 -------------------------------------------REFRESHMENTS------------------------------------------------
10.40
The Rise and Fall of Open Solar Flux During the Current Grand Solar Maximum
Mike Lockwood
11.20
CIRs and High Speed Streams in the Solar Wind
Kalevi Mursula, J. Virtala, E. Tanskanen.
11.40
Solar Wind Mach Number and the Dayside Reconnection Rate
Adrian Grocott, S. V. Badman, S. W. H. Cowley, S. E. Milan, J. D. Nichols, and T. K. Yeoman.
12.00
Solar Wind High Speed Streams and Related Geomagnetic Activity: Ambleside I Intervals
(Days 283 to 294, 2003 and Days 314 to 318, 2003)
Bruce Tsurutani, E. Echer, F. L. Guarnieri.
12:20-4.20 -------------------------------------------SESSION BREAK--------------------------------------------------
SESSION 2 : Magnetospheric Response: Large Scale Processes and Periodicities:
Chair: Andrew Kavanagh
4.20
Unusual Features of High-Speed Streams and their Geospace Consequences in the Descent to
Solar Cylce Minimum 23-24
Janet Kozyra, D. DeZeeuw, M. W. Liemohn, M. F. Thomsen.
4.40
Role of Saturation of the Polar Cap in Regulating Energy Coupling Efficiency in Magnetic
Storms
Niescja Turner, W. D. Cramer, J. E. Borovsky
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5.00
Comparing Variation of the Open Magnetic Flux on the Sun to the Auroral Region Magnetic
Activity
Eija Tanskanen, B. J. I. Bromage, S. A. Chapman.
5.20
Differences Between Substorms, Periodic Substorms, and Sawtooth Events During High Speed
Stream Driven and CME Driven Storms
Mike Henderson
5.40
Winter-Summer Asymmetry in Substorm Activity: Years 1993 to 2003 Examined
E. I. Tanskanen, K. Mursula.
6.00
Factors Affecting the Timing and Location of Energetic Electron Precipitation During High
Speed Solar Wind Streams
A. J. Kavanagh and F. Honary.
6.20-6.50 -------------------------------------------REFRESHMENTS---------------------------------------------------
SESSION 3 : Inner Magnetosphere: Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Wave/Particle Interactions:
Chair: Nigel Meredith
6.50
Current State of Research on Relativistic Electron Dynamics in the Earth's Radiation Belts
Reiner Friedel, G. Reeves, S. Morley, T. Cayton, R. Christensen.
7.30
Paulikas and Blake Revisited
G. Reeves, Steve Morley, R. Friedel
7.50
Solar Cycle Variation of Rapid Fluctuations of Energetic Particles at Geostationary Orbit
S. A. Starodubstev, Kalevi Mursula, I. G. Usoskin.
8.10 ------------------------------------------------------CLOSE-------------------------------------------------------------
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Tuesday 8th September : 8.30 am - 7.50 pm
SESSION 3 : Inner Magnetosphere: Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Wave/Particle Interactions:
Chair: Nigel Meredith
8.30
Review wave modes and associated wave-particle interactions for radiation belt and ring
current dynamics
Richard Horne
9.10
Ring Current Development in CIR and CME-driven Storms
W. D. Cramer, Niescja Turner,M.-C. Fok, J. L. Roeder.
9.30
Acceleration and Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons: Magnetospheric ULF Wave Generation
During High Speed Solar Wind Events
Scot Elkington and J. P. McCollough
9.50
Modelling Geomagnetic Storms with the New BAS Global Radiation Belt Model
Sarah Glauert, R. B. Horne, N. P. Meredith, M. M. Lam
10.10-10.30 -------------------------------------------REFRESHMENTS-----------------------------------------------Chair: Niescja Turner
10.30
Stormtime Observations of Electromagnetic Ion-Cyclotron Waves at Geosynchronous Orbit
Steve Morley, B. J. Fraser, R. S. Grew.
10.50
Relativistic Electron Loss Timescales in the Slot Region
Nigel Meredith, R. B. Horne, S. A. Glauert, D. N. Baker, S. G. Kanekal, J. M. Albert.
11.10
Origin of Electron Precipitation >30 keV into the Atmosphere
M. M. Lam, Richard Horne, N. P. Meredith, S. A. Glauert.
11.30
Relativistic Electron Losses Related to EMIC Waves During Geomagnetic Storms
Finn Søraas, M. Sandanger, K. Aarsnes, K. Oksavik.
11.50
Properties of Dayside Outer Zone Chorus Emissions During High Speed Solar Wind Streams
Bruce Tsurutani, O. P. Verkhoglyadova, G. S. Lakhina.
12.10
Ground-based Observations of ULF-wave Driven Radial Diffusion and Substorms During High
Speed Solar Wind Streams
Johnathan Rae, I. R. Mann, K. R. Murphy, L. G. Ozeke, A. Kale, D. K. Milling
12.30
High Speed Stream Driven Inferences of Global Wave Distributions At Geosynchronous Orbit:
Relevence to Radiation Belt Dynamics.
Elizabeth MacDonald, L. Blum, S. P. Gary, M. F. Thomsen.
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12:50-4.20 -------------------------------------------SESSION BREAK--------------------------------------------------
SESSION 4 : Neutral Atmosphere Response : Particle Precipitation, Heating, Winds, Composition
Chair: Marty Mlynczak
4.20
Response of the Thermosphere and Mesosphere to High Speed Solar Wind Streams
Marty Mlynczak and L. Hunt
4.50
The Impact of High Speed Solar Wind Streams on the Thermosphere/Ionosphere During The
Extremely Quiet Solar Minimum of 2008
Jiuhou Lei, J. P. Thayer, and J. M. Forbes
5.10
Ionospheric Response to the CIR-Driven Geomagnetic Storms
Dimitry Pokhotelov, P. T. Jayachandran, J. W. MacDougall, C. N. Mitchell, M. H. Denton.
5.40
Solar Forcing of Electron and Ion Auroral Inputs
Barbara Emery, I. G. Richardson, D. S. Evans, F. J. Rich, G. Wilson, S. Gibson, G. deToma, T.
Onsager, J. Lei
6.00
Modification of Ionospheric Parameters in the F2 layer by Persistent High Speed Solar Wind
Streams
Mick Denton, T. Ulich, E. Turunen.
6.20-6.50 -------------------------------------------REFRESHMENTS---------------------------------------------------
6.50
Use of POES SEM-2 Observations to Examine Radiation Belt Dynamics and Energetic
Electron Precipitation into the Atmosphere
Craig Rodger, M. A. Clilverd, J. Green, M. M. Lam
7.10
Precipitation of MeV Electrons and Consequences for the Lower Atmosphere
Mark Clilverd, C. J. Rodger, A. Seppälä, and the AARDDVARK team.
7.30
Geomagnetic Activity and Polar Surface Air Temperature
Annika Seppälä, C. E. Randall, M. A. Clilverd, E. Rozanov, C. J. Rodger
7.50 ------------------------------------------------------CLOSE-------------------------------------------------------------
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Wednesday 9th September : 8.30 – 11.30 am
Chairs: Janet Kozyra and Joe Borovsky
OPEN DISCUSSION SESSION, WORKSHOP PLANNING and OVERVIEW OF EVENTS
EVENT 1: 10-22 October 2003
EVENT 2: 10-16 November 2003
11.30 ------------------------------------------------------CLOSE-----------------------------------------------------------
Presentations to be made in workshop sessions:
Evidence for Enhanced Solar Wind Driving of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System During
Periods of Alfvénic IMF.
J. Kim, Larry Lyons, X. Xing, S. Zou, T. Boudourrdis, C. Heinselman, M. Nicholls, M. McCready,
D-Y. Lee, V. Angelopoulos, D. Larson, J. McFadden, A. Runov, K.-H. Fornacon.
An Investigation of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere response to Real and Idealised CIR events
through Global MHD Simulations.
Raluca Ilie, M. Liemohn, Janet Kozyra, J. E. Borovsksy
CIR vs. CME-drivers of the ring current and plasmasphere during intense magnetic storms.
M. W. Liemohn, M. Jazowski, Janet Kozyra, N. Ganushkina, J. E. Borovsky, M. F. Thomsen.
Probing the Relationship Between EMIC Waves and Plasmaspheric Drainage Plumes Near
Geosynchronous Orbit.
J. L. Posch, M. J. Engebretson, M. T. Murphy, M. R. Lessard, Mick Denton, R. B. Horne.
Importance of Solar Wind Alfvén Number on Polar Cap Potential Saturation.
B. Lavraud and Joe Borovsky.
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Thursday 10th September : 9.00 am - 8.00 pm
Morning Session (9.00 - 12.30)
Workshop Session 1 : Solar Wind and Coupling to Geospace
Chairs: John Steinberg and Bruce Tsurutani
Evening Session (4.30 - 8.00)
Workshop Session 2 : Inner Magnetosphere Response 1: Storms and Substorms
Chairs: Steve Morley and Mike Henderson
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Friday 11th September : 9.00 am - 8.00 pm
Morning Session (9.00 - 12.30)
Workshop Session 3 : Inner Magnetosphere Response 2 : Sources and Loss
Chairs: Richard Horne and Reiner Friedel
Evening Session (4.30 - 8.00)
Workshop Session 4 and Summary : Atmosphere/Ionosphere Response
Chairs: Craig Rodger and Mick Denton
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Proposed Leisure Activities
Guided Walks: Monday + Friday
(assemble in lobby of University of Cumbria at TBD)
Ambleside and the surrounding countryside contain some of the UK’s most stunning scenery. To
take advantage of the workshop location there will be two guided walks on Monday and Friday of
the workshop, starting at TBD from the entrance to Univeristy of Cumbria on Rydal Road (near the
mini-roundabout). Details of these trips will be available at the workshop.
Boat Trip to Bowness-on-Windermere: Wednesday
(assemble in lobby of University of Cumbria at TBD)
A boat tour will take delegates to Bowness-on-Windermere. Windermere is the largest lake in
England and weather permitting, allows great views of the surrounding countryside. Bowness-onWindermere is around a 15 minute walk from the town of Windermere proper.
RETURN from Bowness at TBD prompt - the ferry won’t wait!!
Around Ambleside:
The area around Ambleside contains numerous public footpaths, hills, streams and valleys. In good
weather there is nothing better than exploring the area on foot.
One of the most frequent causes of walkers experiencing a problem when straying off the beaten
track is the UK climate. Weather conditions can deteriorate very quickly and fog, rain, sleet and
snow all may occur in September. If you do go exploring off the beaten track use your common
sense.
1. Inform someone where you have gone and what time you expect to be back.
2. Wear good boots and carry a waterproof coat.
3. Check the weather report before you leave.
Contact a local organiser if you would like further advice on likely conditions in the area.
Workshop Meal and Céilidh
The workshop meal will be held on Wednesday evening, and will be followed by a céilidh. For
those of you unaware of what this entails, Wikipedia provides a good introduction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceilidh
Dress is informal. Dancing is compulsory!!!
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UC Reception
HILLTOP
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