Core Team Members:
- Ingrid Cnossen, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, Simulations with the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM) and/or the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model eXtension (WACCM-X) to isolate and quantify the roles of different drivers of hemispheric asymmetries
- Matthias Förster, GFZ Potsdam, Germany, Ionospheric convection, neutral wind data analysis, global modeling of M-I-T processes.
- Hyomin Kim (Team Leader), New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Analysis of data from satellite/ground instruments for M-I coupling and ULF/EMIC wave studies, instrumentation for polar regions.
- Hyuk-Jin Kwon, Korea Polar Research Institute, Republic of Korea, Observations of magnetospheric waves; instrumentation for polar regions.
- Karl Laundal, University of Bergen, Interhemispheric observations of auroras, ionospheric electrodynamics, and empirical modeling.
- Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire, USA, M-I coupling, Analysis of data from satellite/ground instruments for M-I coupling, ULF/EMIC wave and auroral studies, instrumentation for polar regions.
- Tomoko Matsuo, Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, University of Colorado, USA, Assimilative mapping of high-latitude geospace observations
- Yoshizumi Miyoshi, ISEE, Nagoya University, Japan, Analysis of data from the Arase satellite and ground instruments, observation of aurora with the high-speed camera.
- Dogacan Ozturk, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, US, Global numerical modeling of MIT systems, data analysis of ionospheric convection patterns.
- Vyacheslav Pilipenko, Space Research Institute, Russia, Observation, modeling, theoretical work for wave and particle dynamics in the magnetosphere and ionosphere.
- Daniel Welling, University of Texas, Arlington, USA, Modeling of the solar wind and magnetosphere forcing on the ionosphere.
Additional Experts:
- Michael Madelaire, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Geomagnetic response to transient solar wind changes.