WG3/2 Joint Session Science Questions

 

WG2/3 joint session science questions (Tuesday AM):

 

1. What is controlling the response of the penetration electric field to the expansion of the convective electric field and the degree of shielding/overshielding.

  - dependence on temporal time-scale of forcing

  - pre-conditioning in the inner magnetosphere/ring current

  - magnetic field configuration

  - longitude dependence in ionospheric conductivity

 

2. When and where does the ring current produce SAPS and what is their

Relationship to SEDS and plumes.

  - dependence on MLT and latitude

  - many others

 

3. How does the magnetospheric convection pattern expand.

  - evolution from one state to another

  - erosion of plasmasphere or equatorward transport

  - refilling

 

4. Is there a "real" longitude dependence.

  - separating the difference between UT/long and a "real" longitude dependence

  - is there a preferred UT start time of storm?