Splinter Group - Chairs: Howard Singer (NOAA/SEC) & Charlie Farrugia (University of New Hampshire)

Thursday March 30, 2000 - 1:30-4:30pm

This session is on the May 11, 1999 event when the solar wind was very tenuous and almost disappeared. The session will also include discussions of similar events in the past when the solar wind density was significantly less than 1 cm-3.

The afternoon session will focus on the response of the near-Earth environment to these unusual solar wind conditions. Under this purview falls the response of the bow shock, magnetosheath and magnetopause, magnetosphere and thermosphere/ionosphere.

We want to leave plenty of time for workshop discussions, but we welcome short presentations (5 to 10 minutes), or showing 1 or 2 viewgraphs, so that we can get a comprehensive view of the observations and physics involved in such a unique event that will help us better understand Sun-Earth connections.

For organizational purposes,if you are intending to present something at the meeting, we would be grateful if you would contact Charlie Farrugia (charlie.farrugia@unh.edu) with a title and time requested.

As of 3/16/00 the following speakers, representing themselves and their co-authors, have contacted us: Brian Anderson Dan Baker, Daniel Berdichevsky, Don Fairfield, Charles Farrugia, Delores Knipp, Guan Le, Keith Ogilvie, Mike Schultz, and Paul Song.

Any more inputs gratefully received.

We look forward to your participation.