ABSTRACT BOOK Fourth Swarm Science Meeting & Geodetic Missions Workshop 20 - 24 March 2017 Banff, Alberta, Canada Last update: 13 March 2017 1 Table of Contents 2 Committees ............................................................................................................................................ 10 3 Abstracts ................................................................................................................................................. 12 1PM1: Mission status and overview ......................................................................................................................... 12 The Status of Swarm: from Core to Magnetosphere Three and a Half Years after Launch ................................. 12 Geomagnetic Field Modeling Efforts with Swarm – What is Possible with the Present Data and What are Future Opportunities? .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Swarm Instruments Status and Data Quality after Three Years in Operations .................................................... 12 Swarm Flight Dynamics Operations Experiences and Mission Analysis ............................................................... 12 New Synergistic Opportunities for Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Investigations Using Swarm and CASSIOPE e-POP ................................................................................................................................. 13 Keynote: An Overview of the Scientific and Space Weather Motivation for the “Notional” Geospace Dynamics Constellation Mission ........................................................................................................................................... 13 1PM2: Deep Earth I ................................................................................................................................................... 14 Keynote: Geomagnetic Data Assimilation And Modeling Of Core Field Changes ................................................ 14 An Accelerating High-latitude Jet in Earth's Core ................................................................................................. 14 Modelling of Geomagnetic Secular Variation with Swarm: Past, Present and Future ......................................... 14 Ultra Low Viscosity Geodynamo Models With Scale Separation.......................................................................... 15 Application of Swarm Measurements to Data Assimilation Studies of Core Dynamics ....................................... 15 On Zonal Flows and Axial Dipole Field Changes ................................................................................................... 15 2AM1: Aurora ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Alfvénic Dynamics and Structuring of Discrete Auroral Arcs: Swarm and e-POP Observations .......................... 16 Optical Signatures of Field Line Resonances: Comprehensive Survey and Precipitation Mechanisms ............... 16 Swarm Observation of Field-Aligned Currents In Multiple Arc System ................................................................ 16 Ionospheric Electron Heating Associated With Pulsating Auroras --- Swarm Survey and Model Simulation ...... 16 Aurorasaurus Citizen Science Observations of Aurora During the Solar Maximum ............................................. 17 Mesoscale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Along Open Magnetic Field Lines Associated with Airglow Patches: Field-Aligned Currents and Precipitation ............................................................................................... 17 2AM2: Deep Earth II.................................................................................................................................................. 18 Temporal Variability In Core Surface Flows Inferred From Satellite ‘Virtual Observatory’ Secular Variation ..... 18 Keynote: Earth Dynamics: The big picture ............................................................................................................ 18 Simultaneous Inversion of Magnetospheric and Tidal Satellite Signals Constrain Electrical Conductivity from Crust to Mid-Mantle. ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Global Shallow-Earth Structure Models Hand in Hand with Satellite Gravimetry ............................................... 19 1 2PM1: Novel analysis methods for geophysics and geospace research .................................................................. 19 Examining the Current and Magnetic Perturbations at LEO Altitude Due to Plasma Pressure Gradient and Gravity Forces ....................................................................................................................................................... 19 Separating Earth's Internal and External Field in SWARM Observations with the Help of Global Magnetosphere - Ionosphere - Thermosphere Simulations ........................................................................................................... 19 An Analysis of Ionospheric Versus Oceanic Tidal Magnetic Signals ..................................................................... 20 The lithospheric Magnetic Field Measured by the Swarm Satellite Constellation ............................................... 20 Hemispherical Differences in the Ionospheric Current System as Seen by Swarm and CHAMP ......................... 21 Identifying Intervals of Spatio-Temporally Invariant Field-Aligned Currents from Swarm: Assessing the Validity of Single Spacecraft Methods ............................................................................................................................... 21 2PM2: Ionosphere .................................................................................................................................................... 21 Keynote: GNSS-Based Studies of the Ionosphere and the Role of Swarm and Complementary Missions .......... 21 The Canadian Ionosphere and Atmosphere Model and Its Application in Support of Satellite Missions ............ 22 Atmospheric Signatures in the EEJ During Stratospheric Warming Events and Comparison Between Ground and Space Based Magnetic Observations ............................................................................................................. 22 Observation and Modeling of Ionospheric Equinoctial Asymmetry ..................................................................... 22 Observable Signatures of Swarm Field-Aligned Current (FAC) Data in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) Data Using Network Analysis ............................................................. 22 Ionospheric Long-term Cooling: Observation, Ionsophere-thermosphere Coupling Aspects, and Potential Impact on the Topside Ionosphere in situ Measurement .................................................................................... 23 3AM1: Remote sensing of earthquakes, lightning and radiation belts .................................................................... 23 Swarm Satellite Data Analysis For Earthquake Preparatory Phase Studies ......................................................... 23 The Search of the Cross Correlation Between the Ground Based and Swarm Registration of the Thunderstorms and TLE’s Effects ................................................................................................................................................... 24 Lightning-Generated Whistlers Observed during ASM Burst Mode Sessions ...................................................... 24 The Contribution of CSES Mission to Study Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Phenomena Through the Analysis of Combined Missions Data and Ground Measurements .................................................. 24 How Swarm Can Help Solve the Mystery of Extremely Fast Ultra-Relativistic Electron Loss in the Outer Van Allen Radiation Belt. ............................................................................................................................................. 25 10-year Time Series of GNSS Daily Solutions, Geomagnetic Storms and Biggest Earthquakes ........................... 26 3AM2: Equatorial ionosphere ................................................................................................................................... 26 Evolution of Swarm-derived Equatorial Electrojet Signatures Using Vector Magnetic Measurements .............. 26 Constellation Strategies for Observing Plasma Bubbles in the Terrestrial Ionosphere ........................................ 26 Relation Between Diamagnetic Effects and Formation of the Nighttime Ionospheric Plasma Density Enhancements ...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Electromagnetic Features of Equatorial Field Aligned Plasma Irregularities as Observed by the Swarm Mission .............................................................................................................................................................................. 27 3PM1a: Satellite geodesy missions today I 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