| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Transient Phenomena in the Solar Wind and Magnetosphere |
| Main Convener | Dr. Alexei Dmitriev (National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Qiugang Zong (Peking University, China) Dr. Guan Le (National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States) Prof. Hui Zhang (University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States) Dr. David Sibeck (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States) |
| Session Description | The Earth's magnetosphere can be significantly affected by transient solar wind features, including intrinsic features such as solar wind structures and locally generated phenomena such as the kinetic effects in the foreshock that produce hot flow anomalies. Important energy transfer and plasma transport occur during the interaction of transient solar wind features with the Geospace system. Solar wind energy in various forms can propagate into the magnetosphere and ionosphere. Charged particle energy can be transformed to electromagnetic energy and vice versa. An in-depth understanding of how the magnetosphere and ionosphere respond to transient solar wind features will enhance our knowledge of and ability to predict the solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling. This joint session will provide a forum to present the latest results from in-situ spacecraft observations (e.g., NASA MMS, Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, ESA Cluster, etc), ground-based observations (all-sky camera, radar, magnetometer), and global simulations. Discussions concerning the future SMILE mission and other novel remote sensing methods involving ENA, X-ray, UV and other imaging techniques encouraged. |