H07: Boundary layers in terrestrial and planetary environments: Macro/micro-scale kinetic processes (2)

Thursday, August 21  09:40-12:00,  Room #11

Session Chairs: Bertrand Lembège, Gurbax Lakhina, Iku Shinohara

Natural boundary layers play a key role in the energy and momentum transfert between the solar wind and the planetary magnetosphere and/or between different regions within the magnetosphete itself. But, such layers are the sites of intricated microscopic/macroscopic processes which develop over micro/meso/macro-scales. These are based on various wave-particle interactions, nonlinear effects and nonstationary mechanisms, which partially or fully control the overall dynamics of these frontiers. The present session welcomes the discussion of results issued from theory, mono/multi-dimensional numerical simulations and experimental data obtained from various space missions. The comparison between these approaches is possible thanks to refined measurements obtained on board of recent multi-spacecraft missions (e.g., Cluster, Themis). Comparison with data issued from other missions (Geotail, Wind, Double Star,…) are also encouraged. Applications include magnetospheric, ionospheric and space plasma physics. Examples of boundary layers include: (i) collisionless shocks, (ii) the magnetopause, (iii) plasma sheet currents, (iv) magnetotail dynamics (including substorms), (v) plasmapause, (vi) potential drops in the ionosphere and cusp dynamics, (vii) basic particle acceleration processes, and (viii) dynamics of interfaces in active space experiments. Any contributions related to these topics are very welcome. Comparative analysis of results dedicated to terrestrial and planetary environments are also strongly encouraged, in order to approach a more synthetic view of their understanding.

9:40  H07.1   3D STRUCTURE OF RECONNECTED FLUX ROPES AT EARTH’S MAGNETOPAUSE: RESULTS FROM MULTIPLE SPACECRAFT OBSERVATIONS

Z. Pu, J. Zhong, L. Lv

School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China


10:00  H07.2   RECENT RESULTS FROM THE ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELD INSTRUMENT SUITE AND INTEGRATED SCIENCE (EMFISIS) ON THE VAN ALLEN PROBES

C. Kletzing

Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States


10:20  H07.3   A LARGE SCALE 3D GLOBAL FULL PARTICLE SIMULATION OF THE SOLAR WIND-TERRESTRIAL MAGNETOSPHERE INTERACTION: IMPACT OF THE IMF ROTATION ON THE MAGNETOSPHERIC CUSP DYNAMICS

D. Cai1, A. Esmaeili1, B. Lembege2, K. -I. Nishikawa3

1CS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
2UVSQ/LATMOS, Guyancourt, France
3NSSTC, Univeristy of Huntsville, Huntsville, US


10:40  H07.4   MULTI-SPACECRAFT DETECTION OF KINETIC ALFVÉN WAVES IN THE TURBULENT CUSP REGION

T. Wang, J. Cao, H. Fu, W. Liu

Space Science Institute, Beihang University, Beijing, China


11:00  H07.5   PLASMASPAUSE DYNAMICS AND PLASMASPHERIC OUTFLOWS

V. Pierrard1,2, J. F. Lemaire1,2

1Space Physics, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
2Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium


11:20  H07.6   ELECTRON ACCELERATION BEHIND THE DIPOLARIZATION FRONTS IN THE MAGNETOTAIL

Q. Lu1, M. Wu1, M. Volwerk2, Z. Voros2, T. Zhang1,2, C. Huang1

1Geophysics and Planetary Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
2Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria


11:40  H07.7   DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH’S MAGNETOTAIL IN SUBSTORMS: IMPACT OF KINETIC EFFECTS

A. T. Y. Lui

Space, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States