2002 Working Group Sessions

Monday, August 19

WG 1 session II, CME Initiation (Wapiti Longhouse)

  • CME Pre-Eruption Conditions: George Fisher, Ron Moore

WG 2 session I, Simple and Complex Ejecta (Strathcona)

  • Overview of the boundaries and properties of CME ejecta: Jack Gosling
  • Interactions of CMEs with background solar wind and other CMEs: Dusan Odstrcil
  • Compositional properties of complex and simple ejecta: Thomas Zurbuchen

WG 3 session I (Cascade)

  • Search for prompt signatures of interacting CMEs: Dennis Haggerty, Dick Mewaldt

Joint WG2-WG3 session (Wapiti Longhouse)

  • Interacting CMEs: Dusan Odstrcil, Ian Richardson

WG1 session II, CME Initiation (Strathcona)

  • CME Acceleration: Chip Manchester, Holly Gilbert

Tuesday, August 20

Joint WG1-WG2 session I, The Solar Polar Field Reversal Mechanisms (Wapiti Longhouse)

  • Origins of the Sun’s Polar Field Reversal: Peter Gilman, Yi-Ming Wang

WG3 session II (Strathcona)

  • Plasma signatures of interacting CMEs at Earth: Chuck Smith

Wednesday, August 21

Joint WG1-WG2 session II, The Solar Polar Field Reversal Mechanisms (Wapiti Longhouse)

  • Transport of the Polar Structure into the Heliosphere: Len Fisk, Randy Jokipii

WG3 session III (Strathcona)

  • Solar cycle variations in solar wind and SEPs: Toni Galvin, Mihir Desai

Joint WG1-WG2 session III, The Solar Polar Field Reversal Mechanisms (Wapiti Longhouse)

  • Transport of Flux into the Heliosphere and the Role of Helicity: Nancy Crooker, Dave Rust, John Raymond

WG3 session IV (Strathcona)

  • Solar cycle variations in solar wind and SEPs: Rick Leske, Mark Popecki