Comparison of Kinetic Alfven Waves from Magnetotail to the Ionosphere between Global Hybrid Simulation and Observations

Lei Cheng1, Yu Lin1, Xueyi Wang1, Joseph D Perez1, Jay Johnson2, Simon Wing3 and Xu Zhang4, (1)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Andrews University, Department of Engineering & Computer Science, Berrien Springs, MI, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States