Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Characterization and Validation of Solar EUV and Soft X-Ray Spectral Irradiance Models Using Photoelectron Spectra as an Absolute Irradiance Reference
• Effect of the uncertainty and variability of solar irradiance on the thermospheric and the ionospheric weather predictability
• Investigating the Forecast Capabilities of the Modeling of the Solar Spectral Irradiance from the Solar Surface Magnetic Flux
• Using Helioseismic Far-side Imaging to improve Solar EUV Irradiance Prediction
• The Next Generation of Flare Irradiance Spectral Models: FISM-3 and FISM-AI
• Behind F10.7: Understanding The Physical Origin Of Solar F10.7 Index With Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Quantifying global mass and energy transfer rates from solar wind to magnetosphere by magnetopause reconnection
• Pressure Pulse Interactions with the Earth's Magnetosphere
• Specifying Properties of Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection from a Machine-Learning Model for the Earths Cusps
• Interplanetary Disturbances Obliquity Effects in the Generation of db/dt Events
• Role of Solar Wind Fluctuations on Solar Wind- Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling Processes and Magnetotail Energetics
• Foreshock Transients Impact on Magnetospheric Perturbations and Plasma Population
• Advanced Statistical Analysis of the Solar Wind Control of Magnetospheric Activity and Magnetospheric Particle Populations
• Effects of Foreshock and Magnetosheath Kinetic Structures on the Global Magnetosphere

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• A link between weather regimes: Large-scale teleconnections in the Earths atmosphere and ionosphere
• Exploring the response of the ionosphere/thermosphere to the Madden Julian Oscillation
• Imprint of stratospheric QBO on the thermosphere and ionosphere
• Impacts of atmospheric planetary-scale waves on the equatorial ionosphere
• Ionospheric responses to thunderstorm-generated acoustic and gravity waves over the continental US

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Constraining Solar Magnetograph Measurements Using the Observed Interplanetary Field and EUV and White-Light Coronal Images
• Toward a Consensus for Multi-Sourced Photospheric Magnetic Field Cross-Calibrations
• The Origin of the Photospheric Magnetic Field: Mapping Currents in the Chromosphere and Corona
• The Influence of Structure and Turbulence on Coronal and Heliospheric Dynamics - Improved Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling with Data-driven Subgrid-scale Effects
• Linking Surface Magnetic Fields to the Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Corona

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Non-linear Solar Wind Turbulent Heating from 0.08 to 5.2 AU
• Investigating the radial evolution of the interactions between solar wind plasma, macroscopic structures, and intermediate frequency waves
• Global Evolution of Solar Wind along Solar Cycles
• The Alfvénic Slow Solar Wind Over Multiple Solar Cycles
• A Holistic Solar Cycle Approach to Heliospheric Evolution from UCSD 3-D Reconstructions Using Thomson Scattering Data from STEREO HI and SMEI Imagery, and Interplanetary Scintillation Observations

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Understanding warm plasma cloak in the magnetosphere
• Midlatitude topside ionospheric variations associated with plasmaspheric erosion and refilling
• The source of warm plasma cloak due to ion heating by EMIC waves
• Understanding the Sources, Recirculation, and Impacts of Cold Plasma with Self-Consistent Modeling
• Understanding plasmaspheric refilling: an investigation using machine learning models and physics-based simulation

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Global Modeling of Equatorial Spread F
• The Influence of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances on Ionospheric Irregularities
• Contributions of auroral electron precipitation and plasma fluid instabilities to the formation of high-latitude ionospheric density structures and scintillation
• Characteristics of High Frequency Radio Propagation and Scintillation in the Polar-Cap Ionosphere
• Identifying driving mechanisms of GPS scintillation in the high-latitude ionosphere
• Simulating radio wave propagation and scintillations through the turbulent ionosphere
• Driving the Ionosphere from Below: Effects of Planetary Waves and Ion-Neutral Coupling on Low-latitude Plasma Density Irregularities

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Internal decadal anomalies in atmospheric 14C quantified with tree-ring proxies and implications for long-term variability of the sun-climate system
• Understand the effect of solar spectral irradiance partition between the visible and near-IR on high-latitude surface climate through a bottom-up mechanism
• Top-Down Solar Influence on the Madden-Julian Short-Term Climate Oscillation
• Determining the net solar and magnetospheric electron energy contributions to Earth's atmosphere by precipitation mechanism
• Solar Driven Upper Atmosphere Climatology Under the Influence of the Secular Change of Earths Magnetic Field and Anthropogenic Forcing
• The missing link: Relating decades of solar and cosmic ray observations to Lightning and extreme weather patterns on Earth
• Investigations of the solar cycle variations in D/E-region electron density

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Suprathermal Property Scaling and Acceleration Processes from the Near-Sun Environment to 1AU
• The Acceleration of Energetic Particles in Solar Flares and Their Transport in Solar Eruption Regions
• Understanding the role of flare-accelerated suprathermal ions on spectral and abundance variations in large gradual solar energetic particle events
• Generation of Suprathermal Seed Particle Populations by Dynamic Small-scale Flux Ropes in the Vicinity of Traveling Shocks
• The Role of Magnetic Connectivity and SEP Event History in Determining Seed Populations and Large SEP Events
• Investigating the roles of turbulence and reconnection in generating suprathermal seed populations for SEP events
• Suprathermal Seeds for Solar Energetic Particles: Two-stage Acceleration from Flares to CME-Shocks

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Developing the scientific understanding and prediction capability of enhanced radiation levels at aviation altitudes due to energetic electron precipitation
• Quantifying the Global Precipitation of Energetic Electrons and Its Relative Contribution to Radiation Belt Dropout
• The Contribution of Atmospheric Precipitation to Radiation Belt Loss: When, Where, and How
• Analyzing the first all-sky images of DREP events measured with COSI
• Investigating the contribution of microbursts to radiation belt losses
• Quantitative Assessment of Loss Processes in the Radiation Belts

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Wave-Driven Asymmetries in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere due to Asymmetries in the Northern and Southern Polar Vortices
• Hemispheric asymmetries of the electrodynamic environment in the middle and high-latitude ionosphere
• Causes of interhemispheric asymmetries in the ionosphere
• Model-Data Exploration of Hemispherical Asymmetries in the Magnetosphere/Ionosphere System
• Investigation of Interhemispheric Asymmetries in High-Latitude Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Processes
• Impact of Thermospheric Asymmetry On Geospace Coupling
• The impact of the hemispheric asymmetry on the thermal structure and airglow in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) system

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Forecasting of galactic cosmic rays in the Heliosphere over different solar cycles and Forbush decreases
• The Influence of Solar Wind Structures on Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere Over a Wide Energy Range
• Integrated Model for the Solar Energetic Particles, Galactic Cosmic Rays, and Alfven Wave Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere
• Diffusive Particle Acceleration and Extreme Solar Energetic Particle Gradual Events
• Tracking mechanisms efficiently accelerating charged particles at shocks at multiple heliospheric distances out to ~1.5 AU
• High-energy Particle Acceleration by Extreme Coronal Shocks
• A Multi-spacecraft Approach to Understand the Spectral and Temporal Evolution in Large Solar Energetic Particle Events
• Determining the radiation level of galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles in the heliospheric magnetic field based on magnetogram measurements of the solar photosphere

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Modelling the GIC Response from the Solar Wind to the Ground
• Conductivity model evolution from the practical to the ideal
• Magnetospheric and solar wind conditions for potentially hazardous geomagnetic disturbances
• Space weather electromagnetic pulse impacts on modern smart cities and Internet of Things technologies: Observations and modeling of fast and small-scale induced currents in the context of GICs
• Advances in numerical simulations for resolving multi-scale geomagnetic disturbances
• Physics-Based Modeling of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs)
• Interdisciplinary Study of Ionospheric Currents and Associated Geoelectric Fields
• Mesoscale Ionospheric Electrodynamics as a Driver of Rapid Geomagnetic Variability

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Onset of Magnetic Reconnection and Solar Applications
• In-situ investigations of the controlling factors for the onset of magnetic reconnection in solar wind, magnetosheath, and magnetospheric current sheets
• Magnetic Reconnection Rate and its Implications for Fast Reconnection Onset in Solar Flares and Magnetopause
• Magnetotail reconnection: Understanding and quantifying onset conditions using kinetic theory, simulations and data mining
• !urrent sheet configurations and their control of fast reconnection onset
• The Onset of Reconnection and Associated Turbulence in Solar Eruptions
• The role of O+ on reconnection onset in the Earth's magnetotail

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Study of Global-Scale Surface Flows and Migration of Polar Crown Filaments of the Sun in Past 10 Solar Cycles in Comparison with Helioseismology Results in 2 Recent Cycles
• Linking Active Regions and Solar Cycles to Understand How Variable Flows in the Solar Interior Affect Surface Magnetic Field Evolution
• Active Region Dynamics and the Variability of Meridional and Zonal Flows
• Simulating active longitudes by coupling magnetograms with a nonlinear MHD tachocline model: a data assimilation approach
• Processes Shaping the Solar Meridional Circulation
• Do Flows in the Upper Solar Convection Zone Drive Global-Scale Magnetic Fields?
• Improving Long Term Forecasts of Solar Variability with the Advective Flux Transport Model

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Dynamic and Coupling Processes in the Mid-Latitude and Equatorial Thermosphere and Ionosphere during Geomagnetic Storms
• Variability of global electric field and its impact on the longitudinal structure of the ionosphere
• Multi-instrument observational and modeling study of equatorial to mid-latitude ionosphere-thermosphere dynamics during geomagnetic disturbances
• Stormtime Longitudinal Variability in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
• Response of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere to Geomagnetic Storms in the Mid to Low Latitudes
• Investigating Penetrating Electric Field Effect on the Vertical Ion Drift
• Exploring the high-latitude origin, evolution, and low-latitude impacts of large scale traveling ionosphere/thermosphere disturbances-NRL1

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Observational Constraints on the Origin and Acceleration of Solar Wind from Coronal Holes
• Understanding solar wind acceleration from global models, remote sensing and in-situ observations
• The Spatial, Temporal, and Charge-State Variability of the Solar Wind
• Investigating the Interaction between Solar Wind Ions and Electromagnetic Waves Using New Observations and Hybrid Simulations
• Coupling electron and proton kinetic physics in the Solar Wind
• Heating of Ions in the Low-beta Compressible Solar Wind
• Improving Localization of the Source Regions of the Solar Wind

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Characterization of M-I coupling electron populations and ionospheric altitude dependence on solar wind conditions and structures
• Response of magnetospheric keV electron population to solar wind structures
• Kinetic modeling of the impact of solar wind structures on the dayside magnetosphere
• Quantifying Wave-Induced Relativistic Electron Flux Variations in Earth's Radiation Belts Driven by Solar Wind Structures
• How are Magnetospheric Field and Plasmas Impacted by Impulsive Changes in Interplanetary Parameters?
• Ring current dynamics and associated wave activity in response to solar wind drivers using machine learning
• The Response of Inner Magnetosphere Wave-Particle Interaction Regime and Efficiency to Solar Wind Parameters

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• New Insights into SEP Sources, Acceleration, and Propagation: An Integrated Observation-Modeling Approach
• Spatial Distribution of Flare-Accelerated Particles and Their Role as Seed Particles for SEPs
• Understanding the Genesis of Coronal Mass Ejections and Shocks via multi-viewpoint EUV and coronagraph analysis
• Understanding the Connection Between Solar Energetic Particle Events and CME Dynamics in the Low Corona by Combining Observations from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory and Spacebased Coronagraphs
• 3D Modeling of Particle Acceleration and Transport at a CME-driven shock
• An investigation on the roles of the shock acceleration and the interplanetary transport on the spectra of solar energetic particle events
• Linking Energetic Storm Particles to their Upstream Physical Conditions and Shock Properties

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Observationally guided simulations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
• Understanding the Role of Helicity Flux in Solar Eruptions from Active Regions
• The Role of Magnetic Reconnection in the Onset of Solar Eruptions
• Investigating Magnetic Flux Emergence with Modeling and Observations to Understand the Onset of Major Solar Eruptions
• Physics-based Understanding and Data-constrained Simulations of CME Initiation and Propagation
• The Role of Magnetic Topology in Determining the Eruptivity of Solar Flares
• Modeling the Causes and Consequences of Solar Eruptive Events that Drive Major Coronal Mass Ejections

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Investigations of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling with RAM-SCB-E
• Modeling oxygen outflow: its origins and energization
• Factors that Control the Ion Composition of the Plasma Sheet and Ring Current
• Heavy Ions Inside Geostationary Orbit
• Tracing the Height-dependence of Upward Acceleration in Ion Outflow
• M-I Coupling Effects on Ion Circulation in the Inner Magnetosphere

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Physics-based modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere system under Carrington-scale solar driving: response modes, missing physics and uncertainty estimates
• Data mining for extreme space weather
• Ionospheric Response to Super Storms and Its Role in Geospace Coupling
• Response of the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere to extreme solar flare events
• Conductance Effects on Global Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Evolution during Storms and Superstorms
• Quantifying deep penetration of energetic electrons and ions in the inner magnetosphere during extreme storms
• Understanding the Thermosphere-Ionosphere Response to Extreme Solar Events
• Quantifying solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere response to extreme driving conditions
• A nighttime ionospheric localized enhancement (NILE) at mid-latitudes during extreme storms

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Characterizing the Earth's Radiation Environment: A Flux Model of the Inner Magnetosphere.
• Effect of solar variability on the geospace radiation environment
• RADIation environment using ARMAS data in the NAIRAS model (RADIAN)
• Data-constrained predictive model of radiation belt dynamics
• Predicting Radiation Variability in Earths Magnetosphere
• Effects of advective and diffusive transport of trapped energetic particles in radiation belt models

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Understanding the Impacts of Dynamic Drivers on Global Storm-time Ionosphere-Thermosphere (IT) System
• Global Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Influence on the Thermosphere
• Quantifying the variability of equatorial electrodynamics during disturbed geomagnetic conditions using first-principle models
• Storm Enhanced Density, Tongues of Ionization, and Sub Auroral Polarization Streams
• Ionospheric Electrodynamics  A Quantitative Characterization
• Ionospheric Storm-Time Electrodynamics: Coupling Across Latitudes and Magnetospheric Imprint

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Magnetic Data Driven Global Model for Simulating the Solar Atmosphere and Inner Heliosphere in Real Time
• Data-Optimized Modeling of ICMEs with Internal Magnetic Structure
• Using Far-Side Imaging to Provide Improved Magnetic Maps to Drive Atmospheric and Solar Wind Models
• A NASA Focused Science Topic to Combine World IPS Data and Standardize its Analysis
• The Global State of the Solar Atmosphere and Inner Heliosphere during Cycles 23 and 24
• FRAN: Fluxon Rapid Assimilative Nowcasting
• Developing Vector Magnetic Maps from SDO/HMI that can Drive Space Weather Models
• Implementing and Evaluating a Vector-Magnetogram-Driven Magnetohydrodynamic Model of the Magnetic Field in the Low Solar Atmosphere (NASA GSFC)

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Space weather at Mercury: The effect of interplanetary coronal mass ejections on Mercury's atmosphere and magnetosphere  
• Solar Wind Interaction with the Mars Upper Atmosphere: The Impact of ICME Events  
• Improving Solar EUV Spectral Irradiance Models with Multi Vantage Point Observations  
• Understanding the effects of solar flares on the upper atmospheres of Mars and Venus
• Space Weather at Mercury and its Effect on the Exosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• The Heliosphere in Time: Scaling Heliospheric Parameters with Stellar Evolution of Solar Analogs and Studying Heliospheric Consequences of Young Active Suns  
• Evolving Models of Stellar Photospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields
• Exploring the Solar-Stellar Connection Using K2  
• Identifying Causal Relationships in Stellar Activity Cycle Dynamics
• Stellar Insights into Solar Magnetism: Exploring Fundamental Dynamo Physics Across the Lower Main Sequence  
• Observational Constraints and Tests for Dynamos in Solar-like Stars  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• An investigation of solar energetic particles from poorly connected solar events by propagation through 3-dimensional interplanetary and coronal magnetic fields  
• The Role of Solar Activity in the Longitudinal Broadening of SEP Events  
• Evolution of the magnetic field in solar transients between the upper corona and 1 AU  
• A comparative study of the timing and the radial and lateral extent of CME-driven shocks associated with metric type II radio bursts relative to the onset time and other properties of SEP events in interplanetary space  
• Trapping, Transport and Dynamic Behavior of Magnetic Connectivity and Energetic Particles in the Inner Heliosphere: Implications for Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter and Heliospheric Prediction  
• Observer global shock connectivities inferred from ENLIL runs and SEP measurements  
• Multi-spacecraft Observations and Modeling of Solar Energetic Particle Events  
• Understanding the Longitudinal Extent and Timing of the SEP Onset  

Targeted Science Team Research Highlights

• Robust Prediction of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field using Statistical and Physics-Based Model Approaches

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Quantifying the Impact of the Neutral Atmosphere on the Topside Ionosphere During Storms  

Targeted Science Team Research Highlights

• The Topside Ionosphere and Thermosphere: Dynamics and Coupling During Geomagnetic Storms  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• An Investigation of Solar Energetic Particles from Poorly Connected Solar Events by Propagation Through 3-Dimensional Interplanetary and Coronal Magnetic Fields  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Vertical winds: possible forcing and influence on the upper atmosphere  
• Modeling of Storm-Time Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Dynamics  
• Thermospheric wind and the evolution of the ionospheric and magnetospheric electron and ion densities at altitudes below 4000 km during geomagnetic storms  
• Global Thermospheric Wind Response to Geomagnetic Storms  

Targeted Science Team Research Highlights

• A LWS Targeted Investigation on Thermospheric Dynamics During Geomagnetic Storms  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Observed Atmospheric Responses to Short-Term Solar UV Variations

Targeted Science Team Research Highlights

• Response of the Atmosphere to Impulsive Solar Events (RAISE)  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Effect of Alfvén Fluctuations in Solar Wind on Dynamic Variability of Outer Delt Relativistic Electrons  
• Relative Roles of Different Solar Wind Drivers of ULF Waves in Radial Transport of Relativistic Electrons in the Outer Radiation Belt
• The ring current response to solar and interplanetary structures and the corresponding radiation belt variability  
• Drift Phase Sructure as a Diagnostic of Different Radial Transport Mechanisms in the Outer Radiation Belt  

Targeted Science Team Research Highlights

• Competing Pathways of Radiation Belt Response to Solar Interplanetary Structures  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Formation, Evolution, and Eruption of Solar Filaments for a Full Cycle: Simulations Verified by Observations  

Targeted Science Team Research Highlights

• Investigating the Origin and Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Heliosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Computational and Observational Investigations into the Atmospheric Response to Flare Accelerated Particles  
• Bridging the Gap in Space, from the Ground: Dynamics and Magnetic Fields of Flares in the Photosphere and in the Chromosphere  
• Characterization of Sunquake Signatures in Terms of Energy and Momentum, and Their Relationship with the Flare Impulsive Phase  
• Coupling of Particle Acceleration and Atmospheric Response Processes in Solar Flares: Combined Kinetic-fluid Modeling and Multiwavelength Observations  
• Study of Flare Footpoint Emissions Using Advanced Observing Tools  
• Bridging the Gap in Space, from the Ground: Dynamics and Magnetic Fields of Flares in the Photosphere and in the Chromosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• On the Global Dynamics of the Time-Dependent and Three Dimensional Ionospheric Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events  
• Characterization of the stratospheric, lower thermospheric, and ionospheric variability related to the sudden stratospheric warmings  
• Mechanistic Studies of Stratosphere-Ionosphere Coupling during SSW Events  
• Coupling of the Atmosphere and Ionosphere During Stratospheric Sudden Warming Events: Signals, Processes and Their Sensitivities  
• The Dynamical Effects of Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events on the Thermosphere  
• Communication of solar variability to the Earth's surface via the stratosphere  
• What can the data and model tell us about the stratospheric warming effect on the ionosphere?  
• Investigating the Temporal Evolution of Mesospheric Dynamics Before, During, and After Recent SSW Events Using a High-altitude Data Assimilation and Modeling System

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Quantifying the effect of wave-driven electron precipitation on ionospheric conductivities
• Transport and trapping of energetic plasmasheet electrons in the inner magnetosphere  
• Understanding the Dynamics of the Radiation Belts  
• Energy transport from tail to ring current via fast, low entropy flows
• Energization and Transport of O+ Ions in the Nightside Magnetosphere  
• Energetic particle acceleration and transport towards the inner magnetosphere via transient dipolarizations  
• RCM-E investigation of magnetospheric bubbles and their effects on inner magnetosphere particles and fields  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Seed Particle Populations in the Solar Corona  
• Preconditioning of the interplanetary medium as responsible for large intense SEP events: Radial and longitudinal effects  
• An analytical investigation of factors controlling the variability of large gradual SEP events
• Understanding the Variable Intensity and Evolution of CME-Shock-Accelerated Solar Energetic Particles  
• Investigation of solar energetic particle event properties  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Intensity Variation of Large Solar Energetic Particle Events: Source and Environmental Factors  
• Including Quasilinear and Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions in Global Radiation Belt Models  
• Ring Current Instabilities and Their Magnetospheric Consequences  
• Modeling the global distribution of chorus, plasmaspheric hiss, and equatorial magnetosonic waves, and their effect on radiation belt dynamics  
• Ring Current Control of the Outer Radiation Belt: Local Wave-Particle Interactions and Large-Scale Magnetopause Losses  
• EMIC Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere: Spatial Distribution and Properties  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Dynamics and Physical Properties of Coronal Jets and Plumes  
• Modeling Reconnection-Driven Jets and their Coronal/Heliospheric Consequences  
• Investigation of the Production and Evolution of Chromospheric, EUV, and X-Ray Jets using Observations from Hinode, STEREO, and SDO  
• High-Spatial and High-Spectral Resolution Study of Small-Scale Jets  
• Linking Photospheric Dynamic Magnetic Fields to Chromospheric Jetting Activity  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Modeling of gravity wave and tidal influences on low- and mid-latitude plasma dynamics  
• ELECTRODYNAMICS OF EQUATORIAL PLASMA INSTABILITIES  
• Towards a Predictive Capability for Equatorial Plasma Bubble Locations  
• Investigation of the low-latitude electrodynamics and seeding conditions of plasma structures by utilizing multi-instrument observations
• Kinetic 2D and 3D simulations and theory of low- to mid-latitude ionospheric irregularities  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights
Team Lead: Pontus Brandt

• The Role of Currents and Conductance in Controlling Plasmasphere Dynamics  
• Modeling the Plasmasphere and its Influence on Plasma Waves and Ring Current Distributions in the Inner Magnetosphere  
• A First-Principles Model of the Plasmasphere  
• MHD Modeling of the Plasmasphere  
• A 3D climate and weather global topside ionosphere and plasmasphere model  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Modeling Dynamical Flux Emergence as the Driver of Coronal Mass Ejections  
• Using a Sophisticated MHD Model to Improve Prediction of CME Initiation and Propagation  
• Using helioseismology measurements to predict active region flaring probability  
• The Dynamics of Neutral-Line Flows During CMEs and Flares  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights
Team Lead: Geoffrey Crowley

• Plasma-Neutral Gas Coupling  
• on-Neutral Coupling in Solar Prominence Structure and Dynamics  
• Thermal and magnetic models for ion-neutral chromospheric studies based upon Hinode, TRACE, SDO and ground-based data
• Modeling Effects of Ion-Neutral Coupling on Reconnection and Flux Emergence in the Chromosphere  
• Investigation of Ion-neutral coupling processes in the equatorial F-region  
• Global Ionospheric Electric Field Variations in Response to Changes in Geophysical Conditions  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Using Impulsive SEP Events as Probes of Solar-Heliospheric Structures and the Coronal Origins of the Slow Solar Wind  
• Characterizing relations between solar energetic particles and the associated slow wind source regions  
• Characterizing the Origin and Nature of Slow Wind Sources During Solar Cycle 23 and 24  
• Multispacecraft Studies of the Origin and Evolution of the Slow Solar Wind with Predictions for Inner Heliosphere Probes
• The Wind from the Open-Closed Field Interaction Region  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Multiscale Theory and Modeling of Solar Reconnection  
• Multiscale Gyrokinetics in the Magnetosphere
• Parametrization of the kinetic processes responsible for the onset of reconnection in the magnetotail  
• Magnetic Reconnection, Particle Energization, and Plasma Heating in a Global Kinetic Model  
• Integration of Anomalous Transport Effects by Kinetic Instabilities into Global Models

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Multiscale Model of the Magnetosphere  
• Using dynamo models and data assimilation methods for modeling and forecasting properties of solar cycles  
• Facular Studies to Understand Solar Dynamo and Irradiance Behavior  
• Determination of the large-scale and meridional flows in the deep convection zone by time-distance helioseismology  
• The Sun's Polar Fields and the Dynamo  
• Helioseismology of the Solar Dynamo  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Single- and Multi-View 3D Localization and Analysis of Coronal Mass Ejections
• MODELING THE RADIAL DEPENDENCE OF THE SHOCK ACCELERATION OF SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES FROM THE CORONA TO EARTH WITH A TIME-DEPENDENT FOCUSED TRANSPORT MODEL  
• Simulating CME-Driven Shocks and SEP Acceleration  
• Shock Acceleration and Transport of Solar Energetic Particles from the Corona to > 1 AU  
• Tracking CMEs Through the Inner Heliosphere  
• Understanding Interplanetary Shock Dynamics in the Inner Heliosphere with New Observations and Modeling Techniques  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Modeling the consequences of realistic spatial structure of solar energy deposition into the upper atmosphere  
• Determination Of The Causes Of Observed Neutral Density Enhancements In The Auroral Cusp
• Understanding the Thermospheric and Ionospheric Response to Solar Flares  
• The Effects of Solar Activity on the Middle and Low-Latitude Ionosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights
Team Lead: Spiro Antiochos

• Investigation of Alfvenic Interactions in the Magnetotail and Their Relationships With the Onset of Substorms  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights
Team Lead: Elsayed Talaat

• Thermosphere--Ionosphere Response to Variability of Solar X-ray and EUV Radiation During Solar Flares  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Understanding the Dynamic Connections Between the Photosphere and Corona  
• Observations and Modeling of Alfven Waves in the low Atmosphere  
• Exploring the Magnetic Connection and Associated Dynamics from the Photosphere through Chromosphere to the Corona  
• Evolving Nonlinear Force-Free Magnetic Models of the Solar Corona  
• Coronal Morphology - The Interplay of Structure and Energetics  
• Solar Spicules, Spicule-like Features, and their Magnetic Environment  
• Coronal Magnetic Fields from Radio Observations  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Predictions the magnitude and orientation of magnetic fields in magnetic clouds from solar surface data  
• IMF Prediction with Cosmic Rays  
• Stepping Stones Toward CME Prediction: Characterizing the IMF at L1  
• Studying Complex Ejecta at L1 Using Realistic Models of CME Evolution and Interplanetary Magnetic Field

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Simulations of the Effects of Extreme Solar Fares on Technological Systems at Mars  
• Extreme Solar Particle Event Modeling
• A Study of Space Environment and CMEs Using Radio Burst Imaging and IPS Measurements
• Study of the Martian Ionospheric and Atmospheric Responses to Extreme Space Weather Events  
• Onset Times, Spectra, and Abundances of Historic Large Solar Energetic Particle Events  
• Extreme Solar Energetic Particle Events: Origin and Impact on the Moon, Mars, and Interplanetary Space Environment  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• An Investigation of the Electron Outer Radiation Belt's Boundaries  
• Duskside Relativistic Electron Precipitation (DREP) Events and Outer Belt Electron Losses  
• Empirical Model of Electrons and Ions at the Inner Edge of the Plasma Sheet  
• The Excitation of Equatorial Magnetosonic Waves and Their Effect on Radiation Belt Particles
• Research on the Properties of Electromagnetic Chorus in Dayside Minimum-B Pockets: Relevance to Energetic Electron Losses and Acceleration

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Towards a Predictive Model for the Day-To-Day Variability of Equatorial Ionospheric Spread-F Bubbles  
• Thermal upwelling of neutral particles at high latitudes  
• Thermospheric Variability in Aurora  
• Determination of the Causes of Day-to-Day Variability in the Middle and Low Latitude Ionosphere  
• Ionosphere-Thermosphere Variability: The Interaction of Solar Irradiance Changes with Atmospheric Dynamics  
• Collaborative Research: Midlatitude Spread F - Exploring Correlations with Geophysical Forcing and Gravity Wave Propagation Conditions  
• Investigations of the Sources and Changes of the Daily Variability of the Thermosphere and Ionosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Physical Models of Cosmic Ray Response to Solar Inputs and their Effects on Cosmogenic Nuclei
• Evolving Solar Magnetic Activity on Time Scales Relevant for Space Climate  
• Understanding solar EUV Irradiance (EUVI) observed over the 11-year solar cycle  
• Workshop Support: Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment  
• The Long-Term Evolution of the Sun's Open and Closed Magnetic Flux and Its Relation to Cosmogenic and Geomagnetic Activity Records

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Integrated Assessment of Radiation Belt Drivers  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Predicting Active Region Emergence, Evolution, and Flare Productivity using Local Helioseismic Measurements and Discriminant Analysis  
• Detection of Emerging Active Regions and Forecast of Their Evolution and Activity by Time-Distance Helioseismology  
• Applying Magneto-Convection Simulations to Helioseismology and Flux Emergence  
• A Study of Seismic Signatures of Active Regions in Farside Imaging for Applications to Space-Weather  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Understanding Propagation Characteristics of Heavy Ions to Assess the Contribution of Solar Flares to Large SEP Events  
• 3D MHD Modeling of Flare Reconnection for Solar Energetic Particle Acceleration  
• Solar Flares as a Source of Gradual Solar Energetic Particle Events  
• Comparison of Accelerated Particle Populations at 1 AU and at the Sun  
• The Disappearance of Large, Fe-Rich Solar Energetic Particle Events in the Declining Phase of Cycle 23: Implications for the Role of Flares  
• Stochastic particle acceleration in solar flares  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Effects of Stormtime Plasma Redistribution on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling  
• Ionospheric Redistribution: Storm Enhanced Density as a Source for Ion Outflow in the Cusp and Polar Cap  
• Auroral Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Plasma Transport with Alfvén Kinetic Effects  
• A comprehensive self-consistent inner magnetosphere model
• Solar Wind Drivers of Plasma Sheet Composition  
• Storm-Time Plasma Redistribution Processes and Consequences  
• Ionospheric Plasma Outflow Scaling Laws as a Function of Solar Cycle  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Ionospheric Dynamics Associated with Large-Scale Density Gradients  
• Characterizing the composition of large mid-latitude topside-ionospheric/plasmaspheric gradients  
• Modeling Large Scale Electron Density Gradients in the Low- to Mid-Latitude Ionosphere  
• Investigation of Tropospheric Ionospheric Interactions  
• An investigation of the highly structured topside ionosphere at mid- and low-latitudes and its dependence on magnetic storms as observed with the DEMETER and DMSP satellites  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Coronal Heating Origins of the Solar Spectral Irradiance  
• Understanding the sources of the solar spectral and total irradiance variability and forecasting tools  
• Physics-based Modeling of Emission in Active Regions  
• Magnetic Origins of Solar Irradiance Variations  
• The Fine Structure of Active Regions and Weak Magnetic Fields from MDI Images  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• An Analytical Theory of Diffusive Shock Acceleration for Gradual SEP Events  
• Understanding Energetic Particle Responses to Local Interplanetary Shocks through Observations and Theory  
• SELF-CONSISTENT SOLAR-ENERGETIC PARTICLE ACCELERATION AT EVOLVING SHOCKS ASSOCIATED WITH CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS  
• Modeling and Observations of Solar Energetic Particle Spectral Breaks  
• A Self-Consistent Investigation of SEP Production in Gradual Events Based on Realistic Models of Turbulence and IMF  
• Study of SEP Events and Shocks in the Inner Heliosphere  
• Search for Shocks Ahead of LASCO CMEs
• Plasma Transport from The Solar Wind to the Magnetosphere  
• Ionospheric Behavior During the First Few Hours of Intense Geomagnetic Storms  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• An observationally-driven predictive capability for the acceleration and heating of fast and slow solar wind streams  
• Heating the Corona and the Solar Wind by Magnetic Reconnection  
• Solar wind origin and acceleration over the solar cycle  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Intermittent Heating of the Solar Wind in Coronal Holes  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Solar-Wind Ion Entry into the Magnetosphere through the Magnetosheath  
• Predicting the Spacecraft-Charging Environment in the Magnetosphere from Upstream Solar-Wind Parameters  
• Theory and Hybrid Simulations of Transport due to Kinetic Alfven Waves at the Magnetopause  
• Formation of Earth's Low-Latitude Boundary Layer and Cold, Dense Plasma Sheet under Northward IMF  
• Dynamical data-based modeling of the magnetospheric magnetic field with enhanced spatial resolution  
• Plasma sheet ion properties, sources, and transport for different solar wind, geomagnetic, and solar cycle conditions  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Modeling the Impact of Storm-time Electrodynamics on the Mid and Low Latitude Ionosphere  
• Storm-time sub-auroral electric fields: Ionospheric and magnetospheric control  
• Storm-Time Ionospheric Electric Fields  
• Multi-Instrument Investigation of Inner-Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Disturbances  
• Understanding the Evolution and Impacts of Storm-Enhanced Electric Fields in the Mid-Latitude Ionosphere  
• Modeling the impact of stormtime electrodynamics on the mid and low latitude ionosphere  
• Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams Effects on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• A Data Analysis and Modeling Study of Secular Change in Thermospheric Density  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Effects of Hi- and Mid-Latitude Electric Fields on Thermospheric Composition and Winds  
• Heating and mixing of thermospheric constituents in small scale aurora  
• Quantifying the effects of magnetospheric energy inputs to the thermosphere  
• Quantification of the Thermospheric Density Response to Solar Forcing  
• Improvements in solar irradiances during flare periods for use in thermospheric and ionospheric models  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Physics of the Sun-Heliosphere Magnetic Connection  
• Supporting Theoretical Studies of the Processes that Control the Topology and Evolution of the Open Magntic Flux of the Sun  
• Probing Solar Open Magnetic Fields With Near-Relativistic Electron Beams In The Heliosphere  
• Simulation and Analytical Investigation of Waves Supported by Solar-Wind Tangential Discontinuities  
• Towards a global 3D MHD solar wind model with realistic energy flux: tracing the turbulent energy flow from the photosphere to the corona and beyond  
• Understanding and Modeling the Evolution of the Sun's Open Magnetic Flux  
• Understanding magnetic complexity in active regions from structure functions of observed magnetic fields  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Radial Diffusion Coefficients for use in Radiation Belt Models  
• A Physical Model of the Radiation Belt  
• Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Driver Modeling: The Stormtime Ring Current and Plasmasphere  
• Predicting Energetic Ions in the Inner Magnetosphere  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Fluxon Modeling of CME Onset  
• Dynamics and Topology of Coronal Mass Ejections  
• The CME-ICME Connection: Understanding ICMEs from a Magnetic Analysis of their Solar Progenitors  
• Relating Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections to their Source on the Sun  
• Solar Connection of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections  
• Near-real-time Characterization of CMEs using Multi-view White Light Solar Observations  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Data Analysis and Modeling of Large Solar Energetic Particle Events of Cycle 23  
• Particle acceleration at CME-driven and interplanetary shock and transport in inner heliosphere  
• Particle Acceleration in Reconnecting Current Sheets in Solar Flares
• NUMERICAL STUDIES OF THE SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE ACCELERATION USING A DYNAMICAL FIELD-LINE-ADVECTION MODEL COUPLED WITH A REALISTIC CME MODEL  
• Development and Validation of a Realistic Model of the Acceleration and Transport of Solar Energetic Particles Produced by CME-Driven Shocks  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Radial Diffusion Coefficients for use in Radiation Belt Models  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Solar UV Irradiance Variation during the Solar Cycle  
• Modeling the Climate System's Response to the 11-Year Solar Cycle  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Rolando Garcia
• A Model of Long-Term Variability of Solar UV and EUV Irradiance  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Heliospheric Disturbance Propagation from Remote Sensing Observations - Data Analysis and Modeling  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Energetic Particles and the Earth's Environment in Space  

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

Focused Science Team Research Highlights

• Pressure Pulse Interactions with the Earth's Magnetosphere  
• Pressure Pulse Interactions with the Earth's Magnetosphere