| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar-Terrestrial Environment |
| Main Convener | Dr. Qiang Hu (University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Hiroshi Hasegawa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan) Dr. Hongqiang Song (Shandong University, China) |
| Session Description | Magnetic flux ropes, embedded in Coronal Mass Ejections, Earth’s magnetopause and magnetotail, and planetary ionosphere etc, are an important type of structures in Solar-Terrestrial Space. Since they are a key ingredient of severe space weather phenomena and in the energy and mass transfer across regions, their origination, morphology, dynamic and physical/causal interaction with the surrounding environment at large are active topics being pursued in heliophysics research. We solicit contributions that utilize theoretical, empirical, observational, and numerical means addressing a wide range of problems concerning magnetic flux ropes in space plasmas. We especially encourage and will facilitate and highlight contributions from the representative research areas highly relevant to Asia and Oceania. |