SH54A:
Turbulence and Dissipation in the Solar Wind Plasma: Current Challenges II

Session ID#: 4425

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, United States and Tulasi Parashar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Convener:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Co-conveners:  Tulasi Parashar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States and Benjamin D G Chandran, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tulasi Parashar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

4490 Turbulence [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7867 Wave/particle interactions [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Quantifying Turbulence (Invited) (4996)
Homayoun Karimabadi, CureMetrix, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, United States; Analytics Ventures, San Diego, CA, United States, Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States; Space Science Institute Los Alamos, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Jack D Scudder, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Vlasov Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind at Proton Kinetic Scales (Invited) (4531)
Francesco Valentini1, Sergio Servidio2, Prof. William H Matthaeus3, Kareem Osman4, Denise Perrone5, Francesco Califano6 and Pierluigi Veltri2, (1)University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (2)Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (3)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (4)University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (5)Paris Observatory Meudon, LESIA, Meudon, France, (6)Universita' di Pisa, Fisica, Pisa, Italy
Perpendicular Ion Heating by Nonlinear Development of Finite Amplitude Whistler Wave (11792)
Shinji Saito, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Yasuhiro Nariyuki, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan and Takayuki Umeda, Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan
Intermittent dissipation and heating in 3D kinetic plasma turbulence (20582)
Prof. William H Matthaeus1, Minping Wan2, Vadim Roytershteyn3, Homayoun Karimabadi4,5, Tulasi Parashar6, Pin Wu6 and Michael A Shay1, (1)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, United States, (3)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (4)CureMetrix, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, United States, (5)Analytics Ventures, San Diego, CA, United States, (6)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Diagnostics for Comparing Turbulence in Solar Wind Observations and Numerical Simulations (Invited) (5008)
Prof. Kristopher Gregory Klein, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
Solar wind turbulence: anisotropy, anisotropy, anisotropy! (Invited) (5345)
Robert T Wicks, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Miriam A Forman, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Errol J Summerlin, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, D Aaron Roberts, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Chadi S Salem, SSL, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Parallel and Perpendicular Heating of Solar Wind Protons by Kinetic Waves as Inferred from WIND Observations (19559)
Jiansen He1, Linghua Wang1, Chuan-Yi Tu1 and Eckart Marsch2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Laboratory Observations Consistent with Non-linear Decay of a Kinetic Alfvén Wave (25478)
Seth E Dorfman1, Troy A Carter2, Stephen T Vincena3, Richard Dwayne Sydora4, Yu Lin5, Patrick Pribyl2, Danny Guice2, Giovanni Rossi2 and Prof. Kristopher Gregory Klein6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (4)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (5)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States