Interaction of Solar Wind Discontinuities with the Dayside Magnetopause: Results from Large-Scale PIC Simulations

Jean Berchem1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Robert L Richard1, C Philippe Escoubet3 and Simon Wing4, (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)ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States