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Published and submitted publications and presentations

Jordanova, V.K., and the SHIELDS Team, Specification of the Surface Charging Environment by SHIELDS, presented at 2016 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec., 2016 (invited).

Brito, T.V., V.K. Jordanova, J. Woodroffe, M. Henderson, S. Morley, J. Birn, Particle tracing modeling of ion fluxes at geosynchronous orbit during substorms, SM11A-2134, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Chen, Y., G. Toth, T. Gombosi, P. Cassak, S. Markidis, B. Peng, H. Hietala, Validation of 2D and 3D MHD with embedded PIC (MHD-EPIC) simulations against MMS observations, presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Delzanno, G.L., C. Meierbachtol, D. Svyatskiy, L. Vernon, J.D. Moulton, J. Borovsky, M. F. Thomsen, Numerical Simulations of Spacecraft Charging: Selected Applications, SM11C-2166, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Denton, M. G.D. Reeves, M.F. Thomsen, M.G. Henderson, R.H.W. Freidel, B. Larsen, R. M. Skoug, H.O. Funsten , H.E. Spence and C. Kletzing, The Complex Nature of Storm-time Ion Dynamics: Transport and Local Acceleration, SM11B-2150, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Godinez, H.C., E.C. Lawrence, Y. Yu, M.G. Henderson, V. K. Jordanova, Data Assimilation for the Space Weather Environment: Ring Current Estimation with Ensemble Kalman Filter, SM11C-2164, AGU Fall Meeting, San Fran, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Haiducek, J.D., D.T. Welling , S. Morley, and N.Y. Ganushkina, Statistical evaluation of substorm strength and onset times in a global MHD model, SM51B-2482, AGU Fall Meeting, San Fran, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Henderson, M.G. L. Kepko, and S. Morley, SAPS-associated explosive brightening on the dusk-side: A new type of onset-like disturbance, SM52A-08, AGU Fall Meeting, San Fran, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Jordanova, V., C.A. Jeffery, G.L. Delzanno, M.G. Henderson, J. Albert, W. Li, Q. Ma, J. Bortnik, R.M. Thorne, Ring Current Modeling of the March 2013 Storm with RAM-SCB, SM11A-2131, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Morley, S., M.G. Henderson, J.R. Woodroffe, and T.V. Brito, The Global Positioning System constellation as a space weather monitor, SM23C-07, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Rastaetter, L., M.M. Kuznetsova, Y. Zheng, V. Jordanova, Y. Yu, J.I. Minow, Modeling and Data Analysis at the CCMC to Determine Threat of Spacecraft Surface Charging in Low Earth Orbit, SH11B-2231, AGU Fall Mtg, San Fran, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Toth, G., Y. Chen, P. Cassak, V. Jordanova, B. Peng, S. Markidis, T.I. Gombosi, Resolving the Kinetic Reconnection Length Scale in Global Magnetospheric Simulations with MHD-EPIC, SM23C-03, AGU Fall Meeting, San Fran, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Welling, D. T., G. Toth, T. I. Gombosi, H. Singer, G. Millward, C. Balch, M. Cash, Operationalizing the Space Weather Modeling Framework: Challenges and Resolutions, presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Fran, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Woodroffe, J.R., S. Morley, M.G. Henderson, V.K. Jordanova, Ground Zero for Geomagnetic Hazards, SM23C-08, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec 2016.

Toth, G., D. Borovikov, Y. Chen, J. Haiducek, B.v.d. Holst, X. Jia, M. Liemohn, W. Manchester, T. Gombosi, I. Sokolov, V. Tenishev, D.De Zeeuw, D. Welling, A, Glocer, V. Jordanova, I.Bo Peng, S. Markidis, Model integration within the Space Weather Modeling Framework, “Global Modeling of the Space Weather Chain” workshop, Helsinki, Finland, October 24-28, 2016 (invited).

Brito, T.V., V.K. Jordanova, J. Woodroffe, M. Henderson, J. Birn, Quantifying Ion Fluxes of Ionospheric Origin at Geosynchronous Orbit during Substorms, ISROSES-III, Golden Sands, Bulgaria, September 12-16, 2016.

Henderson, M.G., J.R. Woodroffe, V.K. Jordanova, M.H. Denton, G.D. Reeves, Multi-point Observations and Modeling of Particle Injections during Substorms, ISROSES-III, Golden Sands, Bulgaria, September 12-16, 2016 (invited).

Welling, D.T., M.W. Liemohn, V. K. Jordanova, The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma is Not a Black Box, ISROSES-III, Golden Sands, Bulgaria, September 12-16, 2016 (invited).

Jordanova, V.K., Global simulations of inner magnetosphere dynamics and comparisons with multi-spacecraft observations, 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey, 30 Jul - 7 Aug, 2016 (invited). Meeting cancelled.

Tóth, G., T. Gombosi, X. Jia, D. Welling, Y. Chen, J. Haiducek, V. Jordanova, I. Bo Peng, S. Markidis, G. Lapenta, Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell (XMHD-EPIC) Simulations of Magnetospheric Reconnection, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, Apr 17-22, 2016.

Jordanova, V.K., G.L. Delzanno, M.G. Henderson, H.C. Godinez, C.A. Jeffery, E.C. Lawrence, C. Meierbachtol, J.D. Moulton, L.J. Vernon, J.R. Woodroffe, G. Tόth, D.T. Welling, Y. Yu, J. Birn, M.F. Thomsen, J.E. Borovsky, M.H. Denton, J.M. Albert, R.B. Horne, C. Lemon, S. Markidis, S.L. Young, Overview of the SHIELDS Project at LANL, SM31E-04, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015.

Chen, Y., G. Toth, X. Jia, T. Gombosi, S. Markidis, Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Mercury's Magnetosphere, Fall AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14 – 18 Dec, 2015.

Denton, M.H., V.K. Jordanova, M.G. Henderson, M.F. Thomsen, J. Borovsky, J. Woodroffe, D. Hartley, D. Pitchford, Flux predictions at geosynchronous orbit (1 eV to 40 keV) based on solar wind conditions at 1 AU, SM41A-2467, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015.

Godinez, H.C., Y. Yu, M.G. Henderson, B. Larsen, V. K. Jordanova, Ring Current Pressure Estimation with RAM-SCB using Data Assimilation and Van Allen Probe Flux Data, SH43C-06, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015.

Henderson, M.G., J.R. Woodroffe, V.K. Jordanova, and C. Harris, Multi-point Observations and Modeling of Particle Injections During Substorms, SM13D-2547, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015.

Tóth, G., X. Jia, Y. Chen, S. Markidis, B. Peng, L.K.S. Daldorff, J. Haiducek, T. Gombosi, A. Glocer, J. Dorelli, G. Lapenta, Magnetospheric Simulations With the Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Model, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14 - 18 December, 2015 (invited).

Woodroffe, J.R., V.K. Jordanova, M. Henderson, D. Welling, L. Vernon, Geosynchronous Electron Fluxes and Chorus Generation During an MHD Substorm, SM41F-2555, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015.

Yu, Y., V. Jordanova, A. Ridley, J. Albert, R. Horne, C. Jeffery, Modeling ionospheric electron precipitation due to wave particle scattering in the magnetosphere and the feedback effect on the magnetospheric dynamics, SM14A-05, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015.

Jordanova, V.K., G.L. Delzanno, M.G. Henderson, H.C. Godinez, C.A. Jeffery, E.C. Lawrence, J.D. Moulton, L.J. Vernon, J.R. Woodroffe, Y. Yu, L. Zhao, G. Tόth, D.T. Welling, M.F. Thomsen, J. Birn, J.E. Borovsky, C. Lemon, J.M. Albert, S.L. Young, R.B. Horne, S. Markidis, The LANL SHIELDS Project, Twelfth European Space Weather Week, Ostend, Belgium, 23 – 27 November, 2015.

Meierbachtol, C.S., G.L. Delzanno, J.D. Moulton, L.J. Vernon, V.K. Jordanova, CPIC: A Curvilinear Particle-In-Cell Code for studying spacecraft-plasma interactions, Twelfth European Space Weather Week, Ostend, Belgium, 23 – 27 November, 2015.

Markidis, S., G. Toth, L.K.S. Daldorff, X. Jia, Y. Chen, T. Gombosi, A. Glocer, First global 3D two-way coupled MHD-EPIC simulation of a magnetosphere: Ganymede, Twelfth European Space Weather Week, Ostend, Belgium, 23 - 27 November, 2015.

Henderson, M.G., J.R. Woodroffe, V.K. Jordanova, S.K. Morley, G.D. Reeves, B. Larsen, R. Skoug, H.O. Funsten, and H.E. Spence, Multi-point Observations and Modeling of Particle Injections During Storms and Substorms, AGU Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Dynamics, Fairbanks, Alaska, 28 Sept - 2 Oct, 2015.

Jordanova, V.K., Outstanding Inner Magnetospheric Questions and Problem Areas, Unsolved Problems in Magnetospheric Physics, Scarborough, UK, 6-12 Sept 2015 (invited).

Henderson, M.G., The role of “plasma-bubbles” in the injection process, Unsolved Problems in Magnetospheric Physics, Scarborough, UK, 6-12 Sept 2015 (invited).

Jordanova, V.K., G.L. Delzanno, et al., The LANL SHIELDS Project, Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and in Space (IPELS), Pitlochry, Scotland, UK, 23-28 Aug 2015.

Jordanova, V.K., M.G. Henderson, J.R. Woodroffe, J. Birn, D.T. Welling, G. Tόth, Tracing injection-associated energetic particles in BATS-R-US fields, Van Allen Probes SWG Meeting, JHUAPL, Laurel, MD, 28-30 July 2015 (invited).

Meierbachtol, C.S., G.L. Delzanno, J.D. Moulton, L.J. Vernon, CPIC: A Highly Parallelized Electrostatic Particle-In-Cell Code, International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas, Golden, CO, August 12-14, 2015.

Denton, M.H., M.F. Thomsen, V.K. Jordanova, M.G. Henderson, An empirical model of electron and ion fluxes derived from observations at geosynchronous orbit, GEM Summer Workshop, Snowmass, CO, 14-19 June 2015.

Godinez, H.C., Y. Yu, B. Larsen, V. K. Jordanova, Ring current pressure estimation with RAM-SCB using data assimilation and Van Allen Probe flux data, GEM Summer Workshop, Snowmass, CO, 14-19 June 2015.

Jordanova, V. K., Multiple Connections in the Magnetosphere in the SHIELDS Project, Invited talk at GEM Summer Workshop, Snowmass, CO, 14-19 June 2015.

Yu, Y., V. Jordanova, A. Ridley, Modeling ionospheric electron precipitation due to wave particle interactions and feedback to the magnetospheric dynamics, GEM Summer workshop, Snowmass, CO, 14-19 June 2015.

Zhao, L., G.L. Delzanno, Y. Yu, V.K. Jordanova Electron test particle simulation in a whistler wave field: Beyond quasi-linear theory, GEM Summer Workshop, Snowmass, CO, 14-19 June 2015.

Tóth, G., X. Jia, L.K.S. Daldorff, Y. Chen, T. Gombosi, G. Lapenta, MHD-EPIC: Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede's Magnetosphere, Magnetospheres of Outer Planets, Atlanta, GA, 1 – 5 June, 2015.

Jordanova, V.K., Simulations of storm-time electron injection and loss, International Workshop on Energetic Particle Processes of the near-Earth Space, Paris, France, 17 – 23 May, 2015 (invited).

Woodroffe, J. R., V. K. Jordanova, G. L. Delzanno, and the SHIELDS Team, The LANL SHIELDS Project, Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 14 – 17 April, 2015.

Birn, J., Properties of ion and electron injections from test particle tracing in MHD simulations, Inner Magnetosphere Coupling III Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 23 - 27 March, 2015 (invited).

Jordanova, V. K., Simulations of electron transport and plasma wave scattering and comparisons with Van Allen Probes data, IMC-III Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 23 - 27 March, 2015.

Woodroffe, J. R., Whistler-electron interactions in an outer magnetospheric density duct, Inner Magnetosphere Coupling III Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 23 - 27 March, 2015.

Yu, Y., PIC simulations of whistler mode wave generation and electron scattering initialized by plasma conditions from RAM-SCB model, IMC-III Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 23 - 27 Mar 2015 (invited).

Birn, J., Energetic particle sources in substorms and dipolarization events, GEM-mini workshop, San Francisco, CA, 14 Dec., 2014.

Birn, J., Ion acceleration in dipolarization fronts, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec. 2014.

Daldorff, L. K. S., G. Toth, D. Borovikov, T. Gombosi, G. Lapenta, MHD-Epic: Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Reconnection in Global 3D Extended MHD Simulations, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec., 2014.

Delzanno, G.L., J. Borovsky, M.F. Thomsen, J.D. Moulton, E. MacDonald, Beam experiments in space: how do we take the charge off the spacecraft?, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec., 2014.

Henderson, M.G., S. Morley, G.D. Reeves, B. Larsen, R.M. Skoug, H.O. Funsten, H.E. Spence, Multi-point Observations and Modeling of Particle Injections, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec., 2014.

Jordanova, V.K., The Role of the Ring Current in Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy Coupling, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec., 2014 (invited).

Tóth, G., L.K.S. Daldorff, X. Jia, T.I. Gombosi, G. Lapenta, MHD-EPIC: Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede's Magnetosphere, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec., 2014.

Welling, D.T., C.R. Chappell, R.W. Schunk, et al., Data-Model Comparisons of the October, 2002 Event Using the Space Weather Modeling Framework, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec., 2014.

Zhao, L., Y. Yu, G.L. Delzanno, V. Jordanova, Bounce-averaged diffusion coefficients in a physics-based magnetic field geometry from RAM-SCB, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19, 2014.

Birn, J., Y.-H. Liu, W. S. Daughton, M. Hesse, and K. Schindler, Coupling between reconnection and interchange instability, ICS-12, Ise-Shima, Japan, 10-14 Nov., 2014 (invited).

Birn, J., Y.-H. Liu, W. Daughton, M. Hesse, and K. Schindler, Modeling substorms in the magnetotail, LWS Meeting, Portland, OR, 2-4 Nov., 2014 (invited).

Yu, Y., G.L. Delzanno, V. Jordanova, L. Zhao, B. Peng, PIC simulations of whistler wave generation using plasma conditions from the RAM-SCB model, APS 56th Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, New Orleans, LA, October 27-31, 2014.

Henderson, M.G., V.K. Jordanova, L.J. Vernon, and the SHIELDS Team, The LANL SHIELDS Project, Space Weather Modeling Framework User Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, 13– 14 October, 2014.

Birn, J., A. Runov, and M. Hesse (2015), Energetic ions in dipolarization events, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JA021372.

Denton, M. H., M.F. Thomsen, V.K. Jordanova, M.G. Henderson, J.E. Borovsky, J.S. Denton, D. Pitchford, and D.P. Hartley (2015), An empirical model of electron and ion fluxes derived from observations at geosynchronous orbit, Space Weather, 13, doi:10.1002/2015SW001168.

Denton, M.H., M.G. Henderson, V.K. Jordanova, M.F. Thomsen, J.E. Borovsky, J. Woodroffe, D.P. Hartley, and D. Pitchford (2016), An improved empirical model of electron and ion fluxes at geosynchronous orbit based on upstream solar wind conditions, Space Weather, 14, doi:10.1002/2016SW001409.

Godinez, H. C., Y. Yu, E. Lawrence, M. G. Henderson, B. Larsen, and V. K. Jordanova (2016), Ring current pressure estimation with RAM-SCB using data assimilation and Van Allen Probe flux data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL071646.

Hou, E., E. Lawrence, and A. Hero (2016), Penalized Ensemble Kalman Filters for high dimensional non-linear systems, Monthly Weather Review, https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00195.

Jordanova, V. K., Global modeling of wave generation processes in the inner magnetosphere, in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System, Edited by Chappell, C., R. Schunk, P. Banks, J. Burch, and R. Thorne, Editors. Vol. Geophysical Monograph 222, First Edition, p. 155. American Geophysical Union: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. http://dxp.doi.org/10.15142/T3RG68.

Jordanova, V. K., W. Tu, Y. Chen, S. K. Morley, A. D. Panaitescu, G. D. Reeves, and C. A. Kletzing (2016), RAM-SCB simulations of electron transport and plasma wave scattering during the October 2012 “double-dip” storm, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JA022470.

Jordanova V. K., G.L. Delzanno, M.G. Henderson, H.C. Godinez, C.A. Jeffery, E.C. Lawrence, S.K. Morley, J.D. Moulton, L.J. Vernon, J.R. Woodroffe, T.V. Brito, M.A. Engel, C.S. Meierbachtol, D. Svyatsky, Y. Yu, G. Toth, D.T. Welling, Y. Chen, J. Haiducek, S. Markidis, J.M. Albert, J. Birn, M.H. Denton, and R.B. Horne (2018), Specification of the near-Earth space environment with SHIELDS, J. Atm. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 177, 148-159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.11.006.

Meierbachtol, C.S., Svyatsky, D., Delzanno, G.L., Vernon, L.J., Moulton, J.D., 2017. An electrostatic particle-in-cell code on multi-block structured meshes. J. Comput. Phys. 350, 796–823.

Peng, I. B., S. Markidis, E. Laure, A. Johlander, A. Vaivads, Y. Khotyaintsev, P. Henri, and G. Lapenta (2015), Kinetic structures of quasi-perpendicular shocks in global particle-in-cell simulations, Physics of Plasmas, 22, 092109, doi: 10.1063/1.4930212.

Tóth, G., X. Jia, S. Markidis, B. Peng, Y. Chen, L.K.S. Daldorff, V. Tenishev, D. Borovikov, J. Haiducek, T. Gombosi, A. Glocer, J. Dorelli (2016), Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede's Magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JA021997.

Welling, D. T., V. K. Jordanova, A. Glocer, G. Toth, M. Liemohn, and D. Weimer (2015), The two-way relationship between ionospheric outflow and the ring current, J. Geophys. Res., 120, doi:10.1029/2015JA021231.

Woodroffe, J. R., V. K. Jordanova, H. O. Funsten, A. V. Streltsov, M. T. Bengtson, C. A. Kletzing, J. R. Wygant, S. A. Thaller, and A. W. Breneman (2017), Van Allen Probes observations of structured whistler mode activity and coincident electron Landau acceleration inside a remnant plasmaspheric plume, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, doi:10.1002/2015JA022219.

Woodroffe, J.R., S.K. Morley, V.K. Jordanova, M.G. Henderson, M.M. Cowee, and J.G. Gjerloev (2016), The Latitudinal Variation of Geoelectromagnetic Disturbances During Large (Dst<-100 nT) Geomagnetic Storms, Space Weather, 14, DOI: 10.1002/2016SW001376.

Yu, Y., V.K. Jordanova, S. Zou, R. Heelis, M. Ruohoniemi, and J. Wygant (2015), Modeling subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) during the March 17, 2013 storm, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2014JA020371.

Yu, Y., G.L. Delzanno, V.K. Jordanova, I.B. Peng, S. Markidis (2018), PIC simulations of wave-particle interactions with an initial electron velocity distribution from a kinetic ring current model, J. Atm. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 177, 169-178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.07.004.

Yu, Y., V.K. Jordanova, A.J. Ridley, J.M. Albert, R.B. Horne, C.A. Jeffery (2016), A New Ionospheric Electron Precipitation Module Coupled with RAM-SCB within the Geospace General Circulation Model, JGR, 121, DOI: 10.1002/2016JA022585.

Zhao, L., Y. Yu, G. L. Delzanno, and V. K. Jordanova (2015), Bounce- and MLT-averaged diffusion coefficients in a physics-based magnetic field geometry obtained from RAM-SCB for the March 17 2013 storm, J. Geophys. Res., 120, doi:10.1002/2014JA020858.