| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Multi-scale Physics of Magnetospheric and Solar Wind Plasmas: from Theories to Observations in Space |
| Main Convener | Dr. Yasuhito Narita (Space Research Institute/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Marius Echim (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy/Institute for Space Sciences Bucharest, Belgium) Dr. Yasuhiro Nariyuki (University of Toyama, Japan) Dr. Dongsheng Cai (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Dr. Ken-Ichi Nishikawa (National Space Science and Technology Center, United States) Dr. Bertrand Lembege (Laboratoire Atmospheres, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL),University of Versailles Saint Quentin, National Centre for Scientific Research, France) |
| Session Description | This session provides a forum of discussion about theories, numerical simulations, and observations of space plasmas, with special focuses on the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres, and their interaction regions. Examples of such plasma processes are found in formation of waves and turbulence, forced and self-organized criticality, magnetic reconnection, plasma heating, and shock waves. These processes are known to span from microscopic to macroscopic scales: there are, to date, a growing amount of evidence in spacecraft observations and numerical simulations that fundamental plasma processes must be considered of the three-dimensional nature and over a broad range of scales, ranging from global to kinetic ones. In one part of this session, comparison will be made between the results issued from different numerical simulation and theoretical approaches, in order to define their respective advantages and limitations. In another part of the session, theories and simulations are synthesized with novel achievement in observations (e.g., CLUSTER, THEMIS, Van Allen Probes, STEREO, ACE, WIND, Geotail, Cassini, Mars Global Surveyor, and ground-based networks), to construct three-dimensional, multi-scale pictures of space plasma dynamics. |