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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear CEDAR Scientists,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We would like to invite you to participate in our mini-GEM session titled “</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">3D
ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere (MIT) coupled system”. The session will be held between
<b>12:00-17:00 on Sunday December 8 in the Redwood Room at the Holiday Inn San Francisco-Golden Gateway.
</b>Our last session is a joint session with the MMV FG and will be held between 1530-1700.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">The tentative schedule for this meeting is as follows.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">********* Session 1 : 12:00-13.30 Redwood Room ********* </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">5 min. Talk + 5 min. Discussion (5 slide limit)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">1. Russell Cosgrove -
<i>Limits on Electrostatic Theory and a New, Semi-Analytical Electromagnetic Model for Coupling to the E-region Ionosphere</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">2. Robert Rankin -
<i>A new algorithm for MIT-coupling based on overset grids</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">3. Doga Ozturk -
<i>A new framework to incorporate high-latitude input for meso-scale electrodynamics: HIME</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">4. Xiaojia Zhang -
<i>Electron precipitations driven by ULF waves</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">5. Qianli Ma -
<i>Global electron precipitation by whistler mode chorus waves in the magnetosphere</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">6. Hyunju Connor -
<i>Diffuse aurora precipitation and ionospheric conductance driven by the inner magnetospheric waves</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">7. Chih-Ping Wang -
<i>DMSP-THEMIS conjunction events: magnetospheric processes leading to soft electron precipitations and ionospheric upflows</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">8. Christine Garbrielse -
<i>Using All-Sky-Imagers to Probe Energy Flux and Conductance on Meso-scales</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">9. Agnit Mukhopadhyay -
<i>The new empirical conductance model in the SWMF</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">********* Session 2 : 13.45-15.15 Redwood Room ********* </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">5 min. Talk + 5 min. Discussion (5 slide limit)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">1. Toshi Nishimura -
<i>Extreme high-latitude MIT responses to a supersubstorm</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">2. Larry Lyons -
<i>MI coupling associated with the azimuthal expansion of plasma sheet bubbles and their heat flux divergence</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">3. Banafsheh Ferdousi -
<i>Association of SAPS Morphology with Ionosphere Parameters</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">4. Ying Zou -
<i>Substorm-driven winds and their possible preconditioning role for Steve</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">5. Lindsay Goodwin -
<i>Dayside Polar Cap Flows and Density Enhancements Triggered by Substorms</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">6. Andrew Menz -
<i>The Effect of Ring Current Heating on the Plasmaspheric Ion Density</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">7. Shasha Zhou -
<i>Segmentation of Storm Enhanced Density (SED) by Boundary Flows Associated with Westward Drifting Partial Ring current</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">8. Qingyu Zhu -
<i>High-latitude electrodynamic forcings and their impacts on the ionosphere and thermosphere: Static-binned vs boundary-oriented forcings</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">9. Naomi Maruyama - TBD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">********* Session 3 : 15.30-17.00 Redwood Room ********* </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">This is a joint session with the Modeling Methods & Validation (MMV) focus group on Ionospheric conductance challenge session.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">This session specifically focuses on the following events.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">1. 2013 Mar 17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">2. 2016 Oct 13-15</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">3. 2015 Jul 21-24</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">4. 2012 March 9</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We welcome any presenters with results on the challenge events to present at the beginning of the session. We kindly ask
the presenters to prepare 1 summary slide on these results. The session will then proceed in a free discussion format with key discussion points.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">More information can be found at our Focus Group Website:
</span><a href="https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We hope to see you all there!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Dogacan Su Ozturk</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">p.p. Hyunju Connor, Binzheng Zhang, Gang Lu, Haje Korth</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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