SH020
Fundamental Plasma Physics and Turbulence Energy Transfer: From MHD to Kinetic Scales I

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 10:30-11:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Luca Sorriso-Valvo, CNR-ISTP, Bari, Italy; CNR National Research Council, Rome, Italy, Tulasi N Parashar, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Yan Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Primary Liaison:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Chairs:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, CNR-ISTP, Bari, Italy; CNR National Research Council, Rome, Italy, Tulasi N Parashar, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Yan Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
OSPA Liaison:  Yan Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
10:30
Plasma Turbulence in Earth’s Magnetosheath Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission over the First Sub-Solar Apogee Pass (748113)
David A Mackler, Florida Space Institute, Orlando, FL, United States, Levon A Avanov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Scott A Boardsen, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
10:34
Modeling a turbulent collisionless space plasma as a Langevin type system (735697)
Iván Gallo-Mendez and Pablo S Moya, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
10:38
On the multifractality of plasma turbulence in the solar wind (702628)
Sebastián Echeverría Veas1, Pablo S Moya2 and Denisse Pasten1, (1)University of Chile, Departament of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Santiago, Chile, (2)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
10:42
Spectrum of kinetic plasma turbulence at 0.3-0.9 au from the Sun (728511)
Olga Alexandrova, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Meudon, France, vamsee Krishna Jagarlamudi, LPC2E, Orleans, France, Petr Hellinger, Astronomical Institute, CAS, Ondrejov/Prague, Czech Republic, Milan Maksimovic, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon, France and Andre Mangeney, Paris Observatory, Paris, France
10:46
The properties of turbulence in Earth’s magnetosheath and their influence on small-scale magnetic reconnection events (Invited) (721546)
Julia E Stawarz1, Jonathan P Eastwood2, Tai Phan3, Imogen Gingell4, Alfred Mallet5, Michael A Shay6, Prayash Sharma Pyakurel7, James L Burch8, Robert Ergun9, Barbara L Giles10, Daniel J Gershman10, Olivier Le Contel11, Per-Arne Lindqvist12, Christopher T Russell13, Robert J Strangeway14, Roy B Torbert15, Matthew R Argall16, David Fischer17 and Werner Magnes18, (1)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)University of California Berkeley, Walnut CREEK, CA, United States, (6)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (7)University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (9)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (12)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (13)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (14)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (15)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (16)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (17)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (18)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria
10:50
The Role of Ambient Turbulence in Plasma Instabilities Driven by Thermal Ions in the Solar Wind (683657)
Sergei Markovskii and Bernard John Vasquez, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
10:54
Ulysses Observations of Solar Wind Turbulence During the First Fast Latitude Scan (685751)
Abigale S Watson1,2, Charles W Smith3, Anastasia Marchuk2, Matthew R Argall3, Colin J Joyce4, Philip A Isenberg3, Bernard John Vasquez3, Nathan Schwadron3, Maciej Bzowski5, Marzena A. Kubiak5 and Neil Murphy6, (1)Wentworth Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (6)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:58
Higher-order statistics in compressive solar wind plasma turbulence: High-resolution density observations from the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission (723114)
Owen Roberts1, Jessica N Twaites1,2, Luca Sorriso-Valvo3, Rumi Nakamura1 and Zoltan Voros1, (1)Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (3)ISTP-CNR, Bari, Italy
11:02
Small-scale turbulence and energy conversion in kinetic plasmas (Invited) (731163)
Silvio Sergio Cerri, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:06
Reconnection as an Energy Cascade (756513)
Subash Adhikari1, Michael A Shay1, William H Matthaeus2 and Tulasi N Parashar3, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
11:10
Observations of suprathermal particle acceleration in Earth’s magnetosheath (768695)
Alexandros Chasapis1, Frederick D Wilder2, Trevor W Leonard3, Robert Ergun4, Christopher T Russell5, Robert J Strangeway6, Barbara L Giles7, Daniel J Gershman7, Craig J Pollock7 and James L Burch8, (1)University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
11:14
Q&A Discussion