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September 18 - 20, 2012
11101 Johns Hopkins Road Building 200 Conference Room 200-E100 JHU/APL, Laurel MD |
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Session B: Solar Wind
Chairs: Charles Smith, Justin Kasper
This solar wind session has been organized around two specific goals: (1) present new solar wind science made possible by advances in solar wind data products, and (2) evaluate techniques for joint analysis of particle and field observations.
Improvements in processing techniques have led to wind observations with higher time resolution, improved calibrations, and new data products. Examples of new magnetic field measurements include the high time resolution magnetic field datasets released by both the ACE and Wind science teams. Examples of new particle measurements include improved ion and electron distribution functions from spacecraft such as ACE, Helios, Wind, and Ulysses. These new datasets present opportunities to advance our understanding of heating, turbulence, and instabilities in the solar wind, especially when particle and field measurements are analyzed simultaneously. This session is an opportunity for scientists working on joint studies of solar wind particle and field observations to meet, share techniques, and compare notes. The session will be divided into two parts.
Part 1: New Science from New Solar Wind Data Products
The first part of the session begins with an overview tutorial on available particle and field observations, including online links to data products. The tutorial is followed by presentations on new results in solar wind science. Presentations that present techniques for combining multiple types of measurements, or measurements from multiple spacecraft, are particularly encouraged.
Part 2: Joint Analysis of Particle and Field Observations
The goal of the second half of this session is to review techniques for joint analysis of particle and field measurements. This part will begin with a presentation on different techniques for quantifying electromagnetic fluctuations on different timescales, from simple power spectra to scale-dependent wavelet analysis. After the introductory presentation, we will have a working discussion of the efficacy of these different techniques, with attendees welcome to present short summaries of recent work, or propose alternative methods.
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