Structure and Dynamics of the Magnetopause: Comparison between the results of multiscale simulations and MMS observations

Jean Berchem1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Meng Zhou1, Mostafa El-Alaoui3, Robert L Richard1, David Schriver1, Raymond J Walker4, Melvyn L Goldstein5, Christopher T Russell6, Robert J Strangeway7, William R Paterson5, Barbara L Giles8, Benoit Lavraud9, Yuri V Khotyaintsev10, James Webster11, Roy B Torbert12 and James L Burch13, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (10)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (13)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States