RBSP Science Working Group Meeting 2013-08-14 | Van Allen Probes Science Gateway

RBSP Science Working Group, University of Iowa

Monday, August 12, 2013 (Team Meetings Only)

9:00-5:00

EMFISIS Team Ops/Processing

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 (Team Meetings Only)

9:00-5:00	EMFISIS Team Science
1:00-5:00	RBSPICE Team Meeting
1:00-5:00	EFW Team Meeting

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

8:30	Welcome and logistics / Agenda and Objectives (Kletzing / Mauk, Fox)
8:40	Mission Status (Health, Trending, Radiation effects, Lifetime Expectations) (Kirby)
9:10	Investigation Status Topic to include: Instrument Health and Performance, Data Product Status (Quality and availability), Publications Status / Special Issue / Presentations at AGU, Student Activities, General Science Activities, Cross Calibration Activities and Status EFW ECT RBSPICE RPS BARREL EMFISIS
12:00	ERG, etc. and Van Allen Probes Coordination; RBSP Extended Mission Miyoshi: ERG Status Takahashi: ERG White Paper Matsuoka: Akebono-VAP Collaboartion
12:30	Lunch
1:00	Start of participant designated ongoing projects (This notional plan assumes that we would have a couple of periods where we would have short presentations followed by small group workshop interactions. This notion can be changed to one long period of presentations followed by one long period of small group interactions if that is desired) Day-1: Workshop Presentations Whistlers and related wave particle interactions Fennell: Van Allen Probes observations of direct wave-particle interactions Millan and Halford: BARREL Events - Jan. 26, 2013 - Evidence of drift echoes in precipitation; microbursts and whistlers Summers: Experimental tests of nonlinear theory of whistler-mode wave growth using Van Allen Probes observations ULF and EMIC Waves Korth: Statistical distribution of ULF wave activity in the inner magnetosphere Miscellaneous Sturner: Spacecraft Potential Fluctuations and Photoelectron-Mediated Wave Rectification: Simulation and Laboratory Results Planning Thorne: Juno / Van Allen Probes coordination during the 9 October 2013 Juno encounter with Earth. Global Dynamics Baker: The acceleration, transport, and loss of high-energy electrons during March 2013 O’Brien and Mazur: An empirical investigation of radial topology in the outer radiation belt Yu and Jordanova: Boundary condition for RC modeling Kurth: March 17 Injections Gkioulidou: multi-species ion injection contribution to the ring current pressure build-up during the March 17th storm
2:30	Transition to small-group or one-on-one working groups (Transition time TBD)

Thursday, August 15, 2013

8:30	Student forum: Discussion / Demonstration / Motivation of a new Gateway capability for Students and others to provide high level documentation of their research topic (Sibeck)
8:50	Space Weather Broadcast (Fox/Kessel)
9:10	Telemetry allocation (Fox)
9:20	Independent assessment of the availability of Van Allen Probes resources and data (Sibeck)
9:40	Discussion: How are we doing so far in meeting the Mission Success Criteria? (Kessel/Fox)
10:00	Coordinating observations with Cluster. EMFISIS request (Jolene Picket)
10:15	Double Layer Observations and role in particle acceleration (Forrest Mozer)
10:30	New explanation for electron “Zebra Stripes”. RBSPICE request. (Sasha Ukhorskiy)
10:45	Continuation of participant designated ongoing projects Whistlers and related wave particle interactions Big Chorus: Bounds-1 Bounds-2 Bounds-3 ULF and EMIC Waves Millan and Halford: BARREL Events - Jan. 17, 2013 - Connections between ULF waves and precipitation (including Pc4-5 and EMIC waves) Mauk: EMIC wave control of ring current spectral intensities Takahashi: ULF waves in the plasmasphere Kristoff/Argall: EMIC Planning Millan and Kletzing: Planning the next BARREL Campaign. Include coordination with FIREBIRD cubesat Sigsbee: SC Conjunctions Global Dynamics Armstrong & Manweiler: The relationships between Van Allen Probes observations of magnetospheric ions and ACE observations at L1 for two major events in 2013: Plan for analyses Baker: The “Equinoctial” effect in radiation belt efficiency (possible workshop or “forward looking” topic.) Min: electron acceleration and electron loss rates during a geomagnetic storm on 1 March 2013 using RBSPICE, EMFISIS, and THEMIS data Sibeck et al.: Possible multiple presentation. 14 November 2012 dynamic events: Possible focus includes: magnetic field stretching, strong currents in the magnetosphere, composition and disappearance of thermal and energetic particle fluxes, characteristics of pulsations, comparisons of observed magnetic fields with those in empirical and first-principle models, and the signatures seen by ground radars. Thorne: Long term stability and slow decay of ultra-relativistic outer belt electrons Injections Millan and Halford: BARREL Events - Feb 2, 2013 - Precipitation related to injection events

Friday, August 16, 2013

8:30

Forward looking science discussion topics; some possibilities:

EMIC waves. Generation, Structure, Locations, Role in the loss of radiation belt electrons, Role in the loss of ring current particles and storm recovery (Preparing for prime season).

Keika (observations)
Thorne (theory)
Jordanova (modeling)
Volunteers (on misc. topics)
- Zhang
- Argall
- Strangeway
- Horne: Discussion of space weather predictions at: http://fp7-spacecast.eu and the desire to include Van Allen Probes data

11:30

SWG Assessment Discussion

11:45

Continued small group workshop