| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Inner and Outer Frontiers of Terrestrial and Planetary Magnetospheres: Dynamics of Multiscale Processes |
| Main Convener | Dr. Bertrand Lembege (LATMOS-IPSL-UVSQ-CNRS, France) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Gurbax Lakhina (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India) Dr. Iku Shinohara (ISAS/JAXA, Japan) |
| Session Description | Important exchanges of energy and momenta takes place via intricated solar wind -magnetosphere interactions through natural frontiers of magnetospheres. Both inner and outer frontiers are concerned and play a key role in the global energy/momenta partition. Major questions are based on the fact that these exchanges establish over quite different spatial and temporal scales via different processes. Then, different approaches are necessary from magnetohydrodynamics to kinetic approaches. The difficulties consist (i) in identifying these processes and (ii) in analysing their spatial and temporal impacts on the frontiers dynamics itself. 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 both on outer and inner frontiers such as the shock and foreshock areas, the magnetosheath, the magnetopause, the polar cusp, the magnetotail, the plasma and neutral sheet and the radiation belts where CLUSTER, DOUBLE STAR, THEMIS and other space missions have provided a large coverage of informations on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Papers focussed on advances developped for preparing new challenging multispacecrafts missions such as MMS and/or EIDOSCOPE are also very welcome. Comparison between experimental and/or simulation results obtained on frontiers at the Earth (based both on mono- and multi-points measurements) and at other planetary magnetospheres is also strongly encouraged. |