SPA11A:
Solar System Plasma Intermittency, Turbulence, and Complexity I

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Session ID#: 6832

Session Description:
This session focuses on the physics of multi-scale plasma turbulence, intermittency and complexity in solar system plasmas, as documented by in-situ spacecraft measurements (from, e.g., Messenger, Venus Express, Stereo, Ulysses, Cluster, THEMIS, MGS, Cassini, and Voyager), remote or ground-based observations, theoretical models and numerical simulations.  The session addresses fundamental questions such as understanding of the dynamical behavior resulting from the evolution of multi-scale coherent structures, the multi-scale energy transfer, anisotropy, possible links with critical phenomena and coarse-grained dissipation.  The session also welcomes comparisons between (non)-universal features of turbulence and intermittency in the solar wind and in planetary magnetospheres (with or without intrinsic magnetic fields), as well as studies devoted to their solar-cycle evolution.  The session provides a forum to discuss results of higher order data analyses related to probability distribution functions, multifractals, and information theory applied to data ensembles relevant for solar system plasmas.
OSPA Liaison:  Emiliya Yordanova, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Chairs:  Herve Lamy, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium and Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States
Primary Convener:  Herve Lamy, BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium
Conveners:  Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States, Tom Chang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA, United States and Marius Echim, BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium; Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Index Terms:

2756 Planetary magnetospheres [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2780 Solar wind interactions with unmagnetized bodies [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
4440 Fractals and multifractals [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SPA11A-01
Intermittent Scaling of the Solar Wind Data from Ulysses: Multifractal Analysis (Invited) (33762)
Anna Wawrzaszek, Space Research Centre , PAS, Warsaw, Poland, Wieslaw Marian Macek, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18 A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland and Marius Echim, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium; Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
SPA11A-02
Local Fluctuations and Correlations in Turbulent Cascade Rates in the Solar Wind (34901)
Miriam A Forman, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Jesse T. Coburn, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Charles William Smith, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Bernard John Vasquez, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Julia E Stawarz, Northumbria University, Space and Atmospheric Physics, London, United Kingdom
SPA11A-03
Solar Wind Turbulence: the Effects of Spherical Expansion on II and III Order Structure Functions (Invited) (34936)
Andrea Verdini, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
SPA11A-04
External Versus Internal Triggering of Substorms: An Information-Theoretical Approach (34851)
Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States, Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Peter A Damiano, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
SPA11A-05
Dynamical Critical Scaling of Space Storms (33920)
James A Wanliss, Anderson University, College of Engineering, Anderson, United States and Vadim Uritsky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
SPA11A-06
On the Role of Long-Range Connectivity in Space Plasma Complexity (Invited) (34289)
Giuseppe Consolini, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy and Simone Benella, INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy
SPA34C-0370
Multi-scale Structural Analysis of Magnetosheath Turbulence with Rank Ordered Fractals (34787)
Marius Echim1,2, Costel Munteanu1,3 and Tom Chang4, (1)Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, (2)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (3)University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA, United States
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