Parallel sessions

The UK MIST (Magnetospheric, Ionospheric and Solar-Terrestrial) community investigates the physics of the Sun-Earth system, and the systems at other planets. This includes study of the solar wind; planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres, thermospheres and mesospheres; and the coupling between these regions. A wide range of techniques is used for the study of these environments, including: the operation of satellite and ground-based instruments and analysis of their datasets; theoretical calculations; simulations and numerical experiments; machine learning and other cutting edge modelling approaches. MIST research covers both the understanding of the fundamental physical processes which govern these complex and dynamic interactions, as well as the resultant effects on Earth’s environment and human society (space weather). We welcome contributions from all MIST disciplines discussing the latest results: from global system-scale dynamics and climatological timescales, down to gyroscale processes.

Schedule:

Session 1
09:00 Cameron Patterson “The Impact of Space Weather on UK Railways”
09:15 Maria-Theresia Walach “Ionosphere and Thermosphere Observations in the Context of Whole Atmosphere Modelling”
09:30 Alan Wood “Variability of ionospheric plasma observed by the Swarm satellites”
09:45 Sachin Alexander Reddy “The impact of spacecraft charging on ionospheric plasma measurements”
10:00 Gemma Bower “Statistics of transpolar arcs identified by an automated detection algorithm.”
10:15 Joseph Eggington “Response Timescales of the Magnetotail Current Sheet during a Geomagnetic Storm: Global MHD Simulations”

Session 2
13:00 Aisling Bergin “Solar cycle variation in empirical distribution and burst statistics of auroral electrojet and ring current geomagnetic indices.”
13:15 James Waters “A statistical exploration of Auroral Kilometric Radiation observations with Wind during the substorm timeline”
13:30 Nigel Meredith “Statistical Investigation of the Frequency Dependence of the Chorus Source Mechanism of Plasmaspheric Hiss”
13:45 Tom Elsden “Traveling through Field Line Resonances”
14:00 Lorenzo Matteini “Waves and structures from Solar Orbiter's encounter with the tail of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS); signatures from magnetic field draping and cometary pick-up ion instabilities”
14:15 Xiangcheng Dong “Multi-scale structures of dayside current layer and secondary reconnection beside ion-scale flux ropes”