<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-43ec21d8-7fff-fbaf-66fa-f9277c08f153"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the </span>SM024 session <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">“ Multiscale Plasma Convection: Mechanisms, Structures, and Effects in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) System" at the 2021 AGU Meeting. The conference will be hybrid from Dec 13th to 17th, 2021 in New Orlean, LA. </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The abstract submissions are due </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4th of August 2021, 23.59 EDT</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session Title: </span>SM024--<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> Multiscale Plasma Convection: Mechanisms, Structures, and Effects in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) System</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Session Link: </span><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/prelim.cgi/Session/121675">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/prelim.cgi/Session/121675</a></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Session Description: <span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">Plasma convection in the tightly coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (MIT) system occurs at various scales. On large-scale, plasma exhibits a two-cell or four-cell pattern under southward or northward IMFs. Embedded in the large-scale, localized and transient flow structures play fundamental roles in magnetic flux transportation and energy deposition. This session solicits studies on various MIT coupling processes associated with multi-scale plasma convection. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: (1) flow structures: flow channels in the auroral oval, cusp, and polar cap, dawnside auroral polarization stream (DAPS), subauroral polarization stream (SAPS), and penetration electric field,; (2) flow mechanisms: magnetic reconnection, Bursty Bulk Flows (BBFs), dipolarization, particle injection; (3) flow effects: ionospheric density structures including storm enhanced density (SED), the tongue of ionization (TOI), polar cap patches, main trough, and ion-neutral coupling, thermospheric wind, and heating (such as STEVE). We encourage presentations based on observations, theories, modeling, and machine learning.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. W</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">e look forward to receiving your contributions</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">!</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Banafsheh Ferdousi</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ying Zou</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ercha Aa</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Don Lin</font><font face="Arial" style="font-size:11pt">
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