edu.ucar.opensky::articles:26328 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T19:34:23.150362 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7988c1q Mesoscale phenomena and their contribution to the global response: A focus on the magnetotail transition region and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling 2023-04-27T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7988c1q https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1151339 Gabrielse, C. author Gkioulidou, M. author Merkin, S. author Malaspina, D. author Turner, D. L. author Chen, M. W. author Ohtani, S. author Nishimura, Y. author Liu, J. author Birn, J. author Deng, Y. author Runov, A. author McPherron, R. L. author Keesee, A. author Yin Lui, A. T. author Sheng, C. author Hudson, Mary K. author Gallardo-Lacourt, B. author Angelopoulos, V. author Lyons, L. author Wang, C. author Spanswick, E. L. author Donovan, E. author Kaeppler, S. R. author Sorathia, K. author Kepko, L. author Zou, S. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher An important question that is being increasingly studied across subdisciplines of Heliophysics is "how do mesoscale phenomena contribute to the global response of the system?" This review paper focuses on this question within two specific but interlinked regions in Near-Earth space: the magnetotail's transition region to the inner magnetosphere and the ionosphere. There is a concerted effort within the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) community to understand the degree to which mesoscale transport in the magnetotail contributes to the global dynamics of magnetic flux transport and dipolarization, particle transport and injections contributing to the storm-time ring current development, and the substorm current wedge. Because the magnetosphere-ionosphere is a tightly coupled system, it is also important to understand how mesoscale transport in the magnetotail impacts auroral precipitation and the global ionospheric system response. Groups within the Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions Program (CEDAR) community have also been studying how the ionosphere-thermosphere responds to these mesoscale drivers. These specific open questions are part of a larger need to better characterize and quantify mesoscale "messengers" or "conduits" of information-magnetic flux, particle flux, current, and energy-which are key to understanding the global system. After reviewing recent progress and open questions, we suggest datasets that, if developed in the future, will help answer these questions. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation