SP9
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling

Main Organiser
Gang Lu, National Center for Atmospheric Research
ganglu@ucar.edu
ganglu@hao.ucer.edu

Co-Organiser(s)
Kazuo Shiokawa, University of Nagoya, Japan
shiokawa@stdb2.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Zuyin Pu, Peking University, China
zypu@pku.edu.cn

Brief Description
This symposium focuses on the dynamics, energetics and structures of the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere. Through the interactions with the magnetosphere, part of the solar wind mass and momentum is being transferred to the magnetosphere and ionosphere. Geomagnetic storms and substorms are magnetospheric manifestations of the release and redistributions of the excess solar wind energies. The high-latitude ionosphere and thermosphere are directly impacted by the energy input from the magnetosphere via auroral particle precipitation which ionizes the neutral gas and plasma convection which produces Joule frictional heating. Papers on observational, theoretical, and simulation studies of magnetospheric storms and substorms, high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics, and ionospheric/thermospheric disturbances are solicited, with an emphasis on the interaction among the different regions.