Using Velocity Distribution Functions to Probe the Magnetopause’s Boundary Layers

Jean Berchem1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Robert L Richard1, William R Paterson3, C Philippe Escoubet4, Mostafa El-Alaoui5, Raymond J Walker6 and David Schriver1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (5)UCLA, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States