GEM: Campaign Coordination and Related Plasma Flow and Boundary Layer Studies

该奖项支持首席研究员作为GEM（地球空间环境建模）计划的尖端和边界层工作组的活动协调员的角色。 此外，PI将分析来自GEM观测活动的数据，以确定极冠电位模式及其与向阳面边界区域以及开放和闭合场线之间的边界的关系。 作为活动协调员，PI将计划和实施一个程序，以指定磁层顶边界正常磁场和重连电场。 他将参与观测的协调，并将促进和参与观测和理论模型之间的比较。 作为研究工作的一部分，活动数据将用于确定向阳面磁重联率及其时空变化，并用于评估向阳面分界线附近极冠对流随时间变化的原因。

This award supports the principal investigator's role as a campaign coordinator for the GEM (Geospace Environment Modeling) Program's cusp and boundary layer working group. In addition, the PI will analyze the data from GEM observing campaigns to determine polar cap potential patterns and their relation to dayside boundary regions and the boundary between open and closed field lines. As campaign coordinator, the PI will plan and implement a program to specify the magnetopause boundary-normal magnetic field and the reconnection electric field. He will be involved in the coordination of observations and will facilitate and participate in comparison between the observations and theoretical models. As part of the research effort, the campaign data will be used for determining the dayside magnetic reconnection rate and its temporal and spatial variations, and for evaluating the cause of temporal changes in the polar cap convective flow near the dayside separatrix.