**Sun-Earth Connection Physics:**

**The GeoImpact of CMEs, CIRs, and Ordinary Solar Wind**

***Fiesta Americana Hotel,***

***Merida, Mexico***

***November 8-12, 2004***

**Updated November 2, 2004**

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**REGISTRATION**

***Sunday Afternoon***

***Near the Salon Yucatan***

**3:00-6:30**

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**ICEBREAKER**

***Sunday Evening***

***Terraza Montejo***

**7:30-9:30**

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**SESSION 1: Tutorial Talks**

***Monday Morning 8:15-12:10***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Ennio Sanchez***

**8:15-8:30**

**Opening Remarks**

**8:30-9:25**

***George Siscoe***

**GeoImpacts of Solar Wind Forcings**

**9:25-10:15**

***Jack Gosling***

**The Solar Wind**

**10:15-10:35 BREAK**

**10:35-11:25**

***Chris Russell***

**The Earth\'s Magnetosphere**

**11:25-12:15**

***John Foster***

**Global Ionospheric Redistribution during Severe**

**Geomagnetic Storms**

**12:15 END**

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**SESSION 2: Solar and Heliospheric Physics of CMEs**

***Monday Afternoon 2:00-5:20***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Joe Borovsky***

**2:00-2:35**

***Janet Luhmann***

**Potential Field Source Surface Models of the Coronal Magnetic**

**Field and ICME Characteristics**

**2:35-2:55**

***Bernie V. Jackson, A. Buffington, P. P. Hick, M Kojima, and***

***M. Tokumaru***

**Heliospheric Photometric Images and 3D Reconstruction from**

**the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) Data Analyses**

**2:55-3:15**

***Alejandro Lara, Nat Gopalswamy, Grzegorz Michalek, Hong***

***Xie, and Seiji Yashiro***

**Brightness Characteristics of Halo CMEs**

**3:15-3:50**

***Dusan Odsrcil, V. J. Pizzo, C. N. Arge, P. Riley, and X. P. Zhao***

**Propagation of Interplanetary CMEs in Structured Solar**

**Wind**

**3:50-4:10 BREAK**

**4:10-5:00**

***DISCUSSION 1 led by Bob McPherron***

**The Propagation of Features in the Solar Wind: How Do**

**We Improve Predictions?**

**5:00-5:20**

***E. Jensen, M. K. Bird, S. Asmar, L. Iess, J. G. Luhmann,***

***J. D. Anderson, and C. T. Russell***

**Solar Coronal Transients Observed during the Cassini**

**Faraday Rotation Experiment**

**5:20 END**

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**SESSION 3: POSTERS**

***Monday Evening 6:30-9:30***

***Salon Yucatan***

**P1**

***Ernesto Agular-Rogriguez, X. Blanco-Cano, and N.***

***Gopalswamy***

**Composition and Magnetic Structure of Interplanetary**

**Coronal Mass Ejections at 1 AU and Their Solar Association**

**P2**

***A. Carrillo, A. Gonzalez-Esparza, R. Perez-Enriquez, E.***

***Anrade, B. C. Rodriguez, S. Kurtz, A. Kotsarenko, and***

***X. Blanco-Cano***

**MEXART Observations of the Solar Transit: Calibration Tests**

**P3**

***Tom Detman***

**Modeling the 2003 Halloween Chain Storm Massacre**

**P4**

***Americo Gonzalez-Esparza***

**Hydrodynamic Numeric Simulations of in situ Observations of**

**Interacting Ejecta near 1 AU**

**P5**

***L. X. Gonzalez and J. F. Valdes-Galicia***

**Solar Neutron Telescope in Mexico**

**P6**

***Nat Gopalswamy, G. Michalek, H. Xie, S. Yashiro, and R. A. Howard***

**Solar Sources of Large Geomagnetic Storms During Solar Cycle 23**

**P7**

***Dietmar Krauss-Varban, Y. Li, and J. G. Luhmann***

**Entry of Solar Energetic Ions into the Magnetosphere: Impact**

**of Turbulence and Wave-Particle Interactions**

**P8**

***Jared S. Leisner, C. T. Russell, K. K. Khurana, and M. K.***

***Dougherty***

**The Interaction of the E-Ring with the Saturn Magnetosphere**

**P9**

***Veronica Ontiveros and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza***

**Study of Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Flares, Solar Energetic**

**Particle Events and Geomagnetic Storms during the Ascending**

**Phase of Solar Cycle 23**

**P10**

***Cynthia Lopez Portela and Xochitl Blanco Cano***

**Large Scale Perturbations in the Interplanetary Medium:**

**Magnetic Clouds and Complex Ejecta**

**P11**

***Lubomir Prech, Jana Safrankova, Zdenek Nemecek, and Justin Casper***

**Interaction of the Interplanetary Shocks with the Bow Shock**

**and its Manifestation in the Magnetosheath**

**P12**

***Cesar Rodriguez, R. Perez, A. Kotsarenko, A. Carrillo, A.***

***Gonzalez, and S. Kurtz***

**Acquisition and Analysis of MEXART Data**

**P13**

***Paul Rodriguez***

**HF Radar Astronomy: A New Window on Space Physics**

**P14**

***Chris Russell, J. S. Leisner, K. K. Khurana, M. K. Dougherty,***

***and X. G. Blanco-Cano***

**Ion Cyclotron Waves in the Saturnian Magnetosphere**

**Associated with Cassinis Engine Exhaust**

**P15**

***Jana Safrankova, Andrey Koval, Zdenek Nemecek, Lubomir***

***Prech, and Andrey Samsonov***

**Propagation of Sharp Discontinues through the Solar Wind**

**and Magnetosheath**

**P16**

***Ennio Sanchez and Richard Doe***

**Global Measurements of Reconnection and Plasma Transport**

**in the Earth\'s Magnetosphere**

**P17**

***William R. Sheldon, V. Andersen, J. R. Benbrook, E. A. Bering, and***

***L. S. Pinsky***

**The Zenithal Distribution of Electrons that Produce X-ray**

**Bursts in the Atmosphere**

**P18**

***Virginia M. Silbergleit, S. V. Gigola, and C. E. D. Attellis***

**On the Long Range Dependence in Solar and Geomagnetic**

**Activities**

**P19**

***Maya Lol Sosa Salas and Alejandro Lara Sancez***

**Deteminacion de al Distribucion de Densidad Electronica en**

**Diferentes Estructuras Coronales**

**P20**

***Hong Xie, N. Gopalswamy, A. Lara, and S. Yashiro***

**Improved Empirical CME Arrival Time Prediction Model**

**P21**

***Yuri Yermolaev and M. Y. Yermolaev***

**Comparison of Methods and Results on Magnetic Storm**

**Geoeffectiveness of Solar and Interplanetary Events**

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**EXCURSION #1 Archeological Site at Chichen Itza**

**Tuesday Morning+Afternoon 8:30-5:15**

**See Ignacio de Archaval to sign up.**

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**SESSION 4: CMEs Driving the Magnetosphere**

***Tuesday Evening 6:15-9:15***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair J. Americo Gonzalez***

**6:15-6:50**

***Pat Reiff***

**Magnetospheric Response to CME Events**

**6:50-7:10**

***Zdenek Nemecek, Jana Safrankova, Lubomir Prech, and***

***Andrey Koval***

**Interaction of Interplanetary Discontinuities with the**

**Magnetopause**

**7:10-8:00**

***DISCUSSION 2 led by Terry Onsager***

**What Drives the Ring Current (Dst)? What Drives the**

**Radiation Belts?**

**8:00-8:20 BREAK**

**8:20-8:55**

***Mike Liemohn, J. U. Kozyra, A. J. Ridley, D. L. Gallagher,***

***P. C. Brandt, D. G. Mitchell, and J. Goldstein***

**Assessing Our Ability to Model the Inner Magnetosphere**

**during ICME-Driven Storms**

**8:55-9:15**

***Zdenka Smith and W. Murtagh***

**Solar Wind Low-Energy Energetic Ion Enhancements,**

**Their Sources and their Relationship to Large Geomagnetic**

**Storms**

**9:15 END**

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**SESSION 5: Physics of Solar-Wind/Magnetosphere Coupling**

***Wednesday Morning 8:30-11:50***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Xochitl Blanco-Cano***

**8:30-9:05**

***Ramon Lopez, Salvador Hernandez, Michael Wiltberger,***

***And John Lyon***

**Global MHD Studies of Storm-Time Solar Wind-**

**Magnetosphere Energy Coupling**

**9:05-9:25**

***Joe Borovsky and Herb Funsten***

**The Geoimpact of Turbulence in the Solar Wind: An Eddy-**

**Viscosity Interpretation**

**9:25-9:45**

***Joachim Birn and Michael Hesse***

**Effect of Magnetotail Deformations on Current Sheet**

**Formation and the Onset of Reconnection**

**9:45-10:20**

***Steve Schwartz***

**Cluster Results at the Earth\'s Bow Shock**

**10:20-10:40 BREAK**

**10:40-11:30**

***DISCUSSION 3 led by Jorge Chau***

**How Does the Ionosphere Regulate the Magnetosphere under**

**Different Solar-Wind Conditions?**

**11:30-11:50**

***Jorge L. Chau and B. G. Fejer***

**Jicamarca Capabilities for Storm Studies at Low Latitudes**

**11:50-12:10**

***Delores Knipp***

**Relative Effectiveness of Heating Source for the Thermosphere---**

**Solar Cycles 21-23**

**12:10 END**

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**SESSION 6: CMEs Close to the Sun**

***Wednesday Afternoon 12:30-1:25***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Gary Geernaert***

**12:30-1:05**

***Russ Howard and Nat Gopalswamy***

**Properties of Coronal Mass Ejections Observed by SOHO**

**1:05-1:25**

***Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, A. Carrillo, E. Andrade, C.***

***Rodriguez, R. Perez-Enriquez, S. Kurtz, and X. Blanco-Cano***

**Calibration Testings of the MEXART Antenna: An**

**Interplanetary Scintillation Array in Mexico**

**1:25 END**

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**Free time to see Merida and Progresso**

***Times for bus to Progresso to be announced***

**See Ignacio de Archaval to sign up.**

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**SESSION 7: CIRs and Comparison with CMEs**

***Thursday Morning 8:30-11:35***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Mike Liemohn***

**8:30-9:05**

***Masayoshi Kojima, M. Tokumaru, K. Fujiki, M. Yamashita,***

***and D. Baba***

**Solar Wind Observed with Unbiased Interplanetary**

**Scintillation Measurements**

**9:05-9:25**

***Lan Jian, C. T. Russell, and J. T. Gosling***

**Using the Total Perpendicular Pressure to Diagnose**

**Corotating Interaction Regions and ICMEs**

**9:25-10:00**

***Pete Riley***

**Modeling Corotating Interaction Regions**

**10:00-10:20 BREAK**

**10:20-10:55**

***Michelle Thomsen, Mick Denton, Mike Liemohn, and Jichun Zhang***

**The Storm-Time Plasma Sheet at Geosynchronous Orbit**

**10:55-11:15**

***Bob McPherron***

**A Comparison of the Solar Wind and Magnetospheric Activity**

**during Passage of Corotating Interaction Regions and**

**Ordinary Solar Wind**

**11:15-11:35**

***Yuri Yermolaev, M. Y. Yermolaev, A. A. Petrukovich, and L. M.***

***Zelenyi***

**Statistic Study of Relationship between Solar, Interplanetary,**

**and Geomagnetic Disturbances**

**11:35 END**

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**EXCURSION #2 Archeological Site at Dzibilchaltun**

***Thursday Afternoon 12:30-5:30***

**See Ignacio de Archaval to sign up.**

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**SESSION 8: CMEs in the Heliosphere**

***Thursday Evening 6:30-9:00***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Alejandro Lara***

**6:30-6:50**

***Dietmar Krauss-Varban, J. G. Luhmann, Y. Li, I Roth, and S.***

***Ledvina***

**Ion Acceleration at Interplanetary Shocks and Spatio-**

**Temporal Profiles of ESP Events**

**6:50-7:10**

***Sergio Dasso, C. H. Mandrini, A. M. Gulisano, and P. Demoulin***

**A New Model-Independent Method to Quantify Magnetic**

**Helicity in Interplanetary Clouds**

**7:10-7:30**

***Richard A. Fallows, A. R. Breen, H. B. Vo, S. E. Pryse, M. M.
Bisi,***

***K. L. Dewis, R. A. Jones, and H. R. Middleton***

**Tracking the Signatures of Solar Events through the Inner**

**Heliosphere**

**7:30-8:20**

***DISCUSSION 4 led by Nat Gopalswamy***

**For a Better Understanding of the Sun-Earth Connection, What**

**Science Needs to Be Done in Heliospheric Physics?**

**8:20-8:40 BREAK**

**8:40-9:00**

***Jack Gosling, Ruth Skoug, Dave McComas, and Chuck Smith***

**Direct Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind**

**near 1 AU**

**9:00 END**

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**SESSION 9: Ordinary Solar Wind and Its Effect on the**

**Magnetosphere**

***Friday Morning 8:30-12:15***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Nat Gopalswamy***

**8:30-9:05**

***Jean-Pierre St. Maurice***

**The Not-So-Passive Role Played by the Ionosphere in the**

**Response of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System to the**

**Solar Wind Input**

**9:05-9:25**

***Don Mitchell, Pontus Brandt, and Jerry Goldstein***

**Magnetosphere Ionosphere Coupling \-- The Missing Link**

**9:25-9:45**

***Xochitl Blanco Cano, Nick Omidi, and Chris Russell***

**Influence of ULF Waves on the Solar-Wind Magnetosphere**

**Coupling**

**9:45-10:05**

***Ennio Sanchez and Russell Cosgrove***

**Measurement of Coherence of Directly Driven and Intrinsic**

**ULF Pulsations in the Earth\'s Magnetosphere**

**10:05-10:25 BREAK**

**10:25-11:15**

***DISCUSSION 5 led by Josh Semeter***

**ULF Waves in the Magnetosphere: What Are their Sources**

**and What Are their Effects?**

**11:15-11:35**

***Roman Perez-Enriques, A. Carillo, and C. Rodriguez***

**Multifractal Character of the Inner Heliosphere as Obtained**

**from Wavelet Analysis of IPS Data for the Period 1991-1994**

**11:35-11:55**

***Judy Cumnock***

**The Influence of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field on the**

**High-Latitude Aurora during Steady Northward IMF**

**11:55-12:15**

***Joshua L. Semeter, C. J. Henselman, J. P. Thayer, E. Sanchez,***

***G. Sivjee, and H. Frey***

**Production of Ionospheric O+ by Wave-Accelerated Electrons**

**at the Polar Cap Boundary**

**12:15 END**

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**SESSION 10: Physics of Geomagnetic Storms**

***Friday Afternoon 2:00-5:20***

***Salon Yucatan***

***Chair Joachim Birn***

**2:00-2:35**

***Scot R. Elkington, M. J. Wiltberger, A. A. Chan, D. N. Baker,***

***and Y. Fei***

**Energy Transfer from the Solar Wind to the Inner**

**Magnetosphere Via ULF Waves**

**2:35-2:55**

***Megan L. Cartwright and C. T. Russell***

**Compressional Wave Power in the Magnetosphere during**

**Periods of Enhanced Radial Diffusion in the Inner**

**Magnetosphere**

**2:55-3:15**

***Terry Onsager***

**Response of Radiation Belt Electrons to Changes in the Solar**

**Wind Conditions**

**3:15-3:50**

***Rod Heelis and W. R. Coley***

**The Evolution of Electric Fields in the Topside Ionosphere**

**during the Superstorm Events of October and November 2003**

**3:50-4:10 BREAK**

**4:10-5:00**

***DISCUSSION 6 led by Don Mitchell***

**What Are the Differences between CME-Driven and CIR-**

**Driven Storms?**

**5:00-5:20**

***Sergey A. Pulinets, H. Perez de Tejada, V. H. Depuev, E. A.***

***Araujo-Pradere, T. J. Fuller-Rowell, D. Bilitza, and V. Truhlik***

**Checking the Possible Global Circulation Pattern during**

**Magnetic Storm by the Intercosmos-19 Satellite Data**

**5:20 END**

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**CONFERENCE DINNER**

***Friday Evening 7:00-??***

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**Discussion Sessions**

**Discussion 1: Monday Afternoon 4:10-5:00**

**Bob McPherron**

**The Propagation of Features in the Solar Wind: How Do We Improve
Predictions?**

**Discussion 2: Tuesday Evening 7:10-8:00**

**Terry Onsager**

**What Drives the Ring Current (Dst)? What Drives the Radiation Belts?**

**Discussion 3: Wednesday Morning 10:40-11:30**

**Jorge Chau**

**How Does the Ionosphere Regulate the Magnetosphere under Different
Solar-Wind Conditions?**

**Discussion 4: Thursday Evening 7:30-8:20**

**Nat Gopalswamy**

**For a Better Understanding of the Sun-Earth Connection, What Science
Needs to Be Done in Heliospheric Physics?**

**Discussion 5: Friday Morning 10:25-11:15**

**Josh Semeter**

**ULF Waves in the Magnetosphere: What Are their Sources and What Are
their Effects?**

**Discussion 6: Friday Afternoon 4:10-5:00**

**Don Mitchell**

**What Are the Differences between CME-Driven and CIR- Driven Storms?**