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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States and Tulasi Parashar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Conveners:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Tulasi Parashar1, William H Matthaeus1 and Benjamin D G Chandran2, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States(2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Tulasi Parashar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Quantifying Turbulence
Homayoun Karimabadi, CureMetrix, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, United States; SciberQuest, Del Mar, CA, United States, Vadim Roytershteyn, SciberQuest, Inc, Atlanta, GA, United States; Space Science Institute Los Alamos, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Jack D Scudder, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
4:15 PM
 
Vlasov Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind at Proton Kinetic Scales
Francesco Valentini1, Sergio Servidio1, William H Matthaeus2, Kareem Osman3, Denise Perrone4, Francesco Califano5 and Pierluigi Veltri1, (1)Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (4)Paris Observatory Meudon, LESIA, Meudon, France, (5)Universita' di Pisa, Fisica, Pisa, Italy
4:30 PM
 
Perpendicular Ion Heating by Nonlinear Development of Finite Amplitude Whistler Wave
Shinji Saito1, Yasuhiro Nariyuki2 and Takayuki Umeda1, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
4:45 PM
 
Intermittent dissipation and heating in 3D kinetic plasma turbulence
William H Matthaeus1, Minping Wan1, Vadim Roytershteyn2, Homayoun Karimabadi3,4, Tulasi Parashar1, Pin Wu1 and Michael A Shay1, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)SciberQuest, Inc, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)CureMetrix, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, United States, (4)SciberQuest, Del Mar, CA, United States
5:00 PM
 
Diagnostics for Comparing Turbulence in Solar Wind Observations and Numerical Simulations
Kristopher Gregory Klein, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
5:15 PM
 
Solar wind turbulence: anisotropy, anisotropy, anisotropy!
Robert Wicks, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, 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, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Chadi S Salem, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
5:30 PM
 
Parallel and Perpendicular Heating of Solar Wind Protons by Kinetic Waves as Inferred from WIND Observations
Jiansen He1, Linghua Wang1, Chuan-Yi Tu1 and Eckart Marsch2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
5:45 PM
 
Laboratory Observations Consistent with Non-linear Decay of a Kinetic Alfvén Wave
Seth E Dorfman1, Troy A Carter1, Stephen T Vincena1, Richard Dwayne Sydora2, Yu Lin3, Patrick Pribyl1, Danny Guice1, Giovanni Rossi1 and Kristopher Gregory Klein4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States