| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Multiscale Processes at Outer Natural Frontiers of Terrestrial and Planetary Magnetospheres |
| Main Convener | Dr. DongSheng Cai (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Bertrand Lembege (LATMOS-IPSL-UVSQ-CNRS, France) Dr. Gurbax Lakhina (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India) Prof. Ling-Hsiao Lyu (National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | Naturals frontiers play a key role in the intricated solar wind -magnetosphere interactions where important exchanges of energy takes places. One major difficulty in the understanding of the natural frontiers dynamics is due to the fact that these exchanges establish over quite different spatial and temporal scales via different processes. The aim of this session is to focuss on recent advances obtained on these processes based on experimental observations, theory and numerical simulations. A particular emphasis will be given on outer frontiers as the shock and foreshock areas, the magnetosheath, the magnetopause and the polar cusp, where Cluster, Double Star and other space missions have provided a large coverage of informations on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Comparison between experimental results on frontiers obtained at the Earth (based both on mono- and multi-points measurements) and at other planetary magnetospheres is also strongly encouraged. |