HR: 08:50h
AN: SM11C-04 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Context of the Expanding/Contracting Polar Cap, or the ECPC Made Easy-Peasy
AU: * Milan, S E
EM: ets@ion.le.ac.uk
AF: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE2 3FP, United Kingdom
AB: The expanding/contracting polar cap (ECPC) paradigm provides a theoretical framework for understanding the role of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause and in the magnetotail in determining the form, structure, and dynamics of the magnetosphere, including the excitation of ionospheric convection and the occurrence of substorms. This talk will review (a) the basic concepts behind the ECPC paradigm, (b) techniques for measuring the open flux content of the magnetosphere, and (c) recent advances in our understanding of solar wind- magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and substorms in the context of the ECPC.
DE: 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835)
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
DE: 2788 Magnetic storms and substorms (7954)
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting