Revealing multiscale plasma dynamics and properties of turbulence in three dimensions: Insights from multispacecraft observations from Cluster and MMS to Helioswarm and beyond.

Session ID#: 121125

Session Description:
Turbulence is a multiscale phenomenon spanning a broad range of space and time scales. Single spacecraft measurements are severely hampered by inability to distinguish between spatial and temporal structure and therefore provide only limited information about turbulent cascade and resulting dissipation, while requiring additional assumptions. Modern multispaceraft missions have enabled measurement of turbulence correlations and statistics, such as cascade rates, higher order statistics, anisotropic power spectra, and true space-time correlations without some of these limitations. Sophisticated turbulence techniques and modern data science find fertile common ground in such datasets, both existing and anticipated. This session invites presentations on subjects, both observational and theoretical, that relate to multispacecraft data, including results in turbulence physics, refinement and development of methods, interpretation of data from current missions (Cluster, MMS, THEMIS/ARTEMIS, etc.) and proposed missions (Helioswarm, etc), as well as mission concepts.
Index Terms:

2134 Interplanetary magnetic fields [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2149 MHD waves and turbulence [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]


Primary Convener:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Bennett Maruca, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Julia E Stawarz, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Li J Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States