Location
Yosemite National Park
Start Date
2-10-2014 8:10 AM
End Date
2-10-2014 8:45 AM
Description
In this talk the status of magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) coupling research in 1974 will be briefly reviewed as background to a description of recent advances in the field. Outstanding questions and needed experimental research and modeling will be identified and discussed. It is now realized that the magnetosphere and ionosphere comprise one coupled system and that future significant progress will require the deployment of multiple spacecraft with highly targeted measurements and objectives along with sophisticated models that can reveal the global effects of the measured MI interactions. Planetary missions have shown that MI coupling is also very important in other magnetospheres, some of which have strong interactions with the exospheres and ionospheres of their orbiting moons. In rotation-dominated planets such as Jupiter and Saturn the modes of MI coupling are fundamentally different from those at Earth making comparative studies especially important.
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling-Past and Future
Yosemite National Park
In this talk the status of magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) coupling research in 1974 will be briefly reviewed as background to a description of recent advances in the field. Outstanding questions and needed experimental research and modeling will be identified and discussed. It is now realized that the magnetosphere and ionosphere comprise one coupled system and that future significant progress will require the deployment of multiple spacecraft with highly targeted measurements and objectives along with sophisticated models that can reveal the global effects of the measured MI interactions. Planetary missions have shown that MI coupling is also very important in other magnetospheres, some of which have strong interactions with the exospheres and ionospheres of their orbiting moons. In rotation-dominated planets such as Jupiter and Saturn the modes of MI coupling are fundamentally different from those at Earth making comparative studies especially important.
Comments
The presentation was preceded by a viewing of Jim Burchs's 1974 presentation.
The 2014 presentation begins at 3:05