Meeting

First meeting (February 2026):

Presentations from the team members:

Monday
9:00 Introduction & self-introduction
9:30 Sergio Toledo-Redondo Statistics of the Warm Plasma Cloak and detached plasmaspheric plasma
10:30 Inmaculada Albert Gaussian Mixture Model applied to cold plasma
11:00 Coffee break
11:10 Cecilia Norgren Gaussian Mixture Model applied to cold plasma
11:30 Jing Liao Identification of the source of the warm plasma cloak
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Lynn Kistler – Contribution of the solar wind plasma to the plasma sheet
– Contributions of ionospheric ions accelerated at the near-earth reconnection region.
14:15 Chris Cully Cold plasma structure relation to wave growth and high energy particle precipitation
14:30 Jean-François Ripoll,
Adam Michael &
Guillaume Peyrichon
– Global multi-fluid MHD simulations of the plasmaspheric evolution during and following storms
– Simulations of wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts
– Global test particle simulations of oxygen ion transport and heating
16:00 Coffee break
16:15 Alexandre Winant Ionization of the atmosphere, radiation belts and plasmasphere
16:45 Alex Glocer – Overview of the ion outflow model in global MHD simulation
– Case studies tracking different plasma sources though the magnetosphere
– Other code and method improvements
17:45 Discussions
Tuesday
9:00 Jérémy Dargent Energy budgets of magnetic reconnection with cold ions
9:30 Dan Welling – 3-fluid simulations of outflow & multifluid coupling with a plasmasphere code
– New way to measure the total reconnection potential on the dayside