Properties and Consequences of Mesoscale Plasma Convection

Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy1, Kareem Sorathia1, Viacheslav G Merkin2, Chris E Crabtree3, Alex Fletcher3 and David Malaspina4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States