| Session Description |
The inner magnetosphere occupies a prominent place in space weather research. Residing in its domain are the radiation belts, the ring current, and plasmasphere. The interest in the inner magnetosphere is heightened by the successful launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) in August, 2012. The new mission plus several on-going missions such as Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS), Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-Atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Cluster, Geotail, geosynchronous satellites (Los Alamos satellites and Geostationary Operational Environment satellites (GOES)), and Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) furnish a rare opportunity to advance our understanding of the physical processes in the inner magnetosphere and its linkage to other space plasma domains. All research approaches to probe the inner magnetosphere dynamics are solicited for this special session. |
