Quantify the deep penetration of energetic electrons and ions in extreme storms
Team PI
Suk-Bin Kang
Who Will Do What:
CUA (Kang, Komar): Conducting the entire event simulation tasks. Minor CIMI development.
NASA/GSFC (Fok, Glocer): developing and updating CIMI.
Umich (Tóth): updating SWMF and BATS-R-US (global MHD) model
What Are Our Expectations:
Each member will individually work and contribute to the project. All decision making in the project will be based on collective discussions between the team members involved.
What Are Our Objectives:
Quantify the deep penetration of energetic electrons and ions in the inner
magnetosphere during extreme storms.
What Are Our Goals:
SQ1. What are the global distribution and dynamics of electric and magnetic fields in the magnetosphere and ionospheric potential during extreme events?
SQ2. What causes the deep penetration of energetic electrons and ions to low L-shells during extreme events?
What Are Our Milestones:
Year 1 – 2: Conduct extensive simulations for a Carrington event. Adding field line curvature scattering and plasmasphere-MHD coupling.
Year 3 – 4: Select extreme storms from 1980 to present and conduct simulations for the selected extreme events. Validate simulation results by quantitatively comparing with observational data.
COIs
Mei-Ching Fok
Colin Komar
Gábor Tóth
Alex Glocer
CUA (Kang, Komar): Global simulation and kinetic particle dynamics.
NASA/GSFC (Fok, Glocer): Ring current model development and coupling with global MHD
Umich (Tóth): Global MHD model development.