Plasma sheet turbulence observed by Cluster II

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 110, Issue A1, 2005, Pages

  Weygand, James M ^a   Kivelson, M G ^a   Khurana, K K ^a   Schwarzl, H K ^a   Thompson, S M ^a   McPherron, R L ^a   Balogh, A ^b   Kistler, L M ^c   Goldstein, M L ^d   Borovsky, J ^e   Roberts, D A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645592433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010581     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Angelopoulos, V., T. Mukai, and S. Kokubun (1999), Evidence of intermittency in Earth's plasma sheet and implications for self-organized criticality, Phys. Plasmas, 6, 4161-4168.
2. Anselmet, F., Y. Gagne, E. J. Hopfinger, and R. A. Antonia (1984), High-order velocity structure functions in turbulent shear flows, J. Fluid Mech., 140, 63-89.
3. Antonia, R. A., B. R. Satyaprakash, and A. K. M. F. Hussain (1982), Statistics of fine-scale velocity in turbulent plane and circular jets, J. Fluid Mech., 119, 55-89.
4. Balogh, A., et al. (1997), The Cluster magnetic field investigation, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 65-91.
5. Borovsky, J. E., and H. O. Funsten (2003), MHD turbulence in the Earth's plasma sheet: Dynamics, dissipation, and driving, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A7), 1284, doi:10.1029/2002JA009625.
6. Borovsky, J. E., R. C. Elphic, H. O. Funsten, and M. F. Thomson (1997), The Earth's plasma sheet as a laboratory for turbulence in high-beta MHD, J. Plasma Phys., 57, 1-34.
7. Burlaga, L. F. (1991a), Multifractal structure of the interplanetary magnetic field: Voyager 2 observations near 25 AU, 1987-1988, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 69-72.
8. Burlaga, L. F. (1991b), Multifractal structure of speed fluctuations in recurrent streams at 1 AU and near 6 AU, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 1651-1654.
9. Burlaga, L. F. (1991c), Intermittent turbulence in the solar wind, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 5947-5951.
10. Burlaga, L. F. (1992), Multifractal structure of the magnetic field and plasma in recurrent streams at 1 AU, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 4283-4293.
11. Burlaga, L. F. (1993), Intermittent turbulence in large-scale velocity fluctuations at 1 AU near solar maximum, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 17,467-17,473.
12. Burlaga, L. F., and L. W. Klein (1986), Fractal structure of the interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 347-350.
13. Burlaga, L. F., and W. H. Mish (1987), Large-scale fluctuations in the interplanetary medium, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 1261 -1266.
14. Carbone, V., et al. (2002), To what extent can dynamical models describe statistical features of turbulent flow, Europhysics, 58, 349-355.
15. Castaing, B., Y. Gagne, and E. J. Hopfinger (1990), Velocity probability distribution functions of high Reynolds number turbulence, Physica D, 46, 177-200.
16. Chang, T. (1999), Self-organized criticality, multi-fractal spectra, sporadic localized reconnections and intermittent turbulence in the magnetotail, Phys. Plasmas, 6, 4137-4145.
17. Chang, T., S. W. Y. Tarn, and C.-C. Wu (2004), Complexity induced anisotropic bimodal intermittent turbulence in space plasma, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 1287-1299.
18. Coleman, P. (1968), Turbulence, viscosity, and dissipation in the solar wind plasma, Astrophys. J., 153, 371.
19. Consolini, G., M. F. Marcucci, and M. Candidi (1996), Multifractal structures of auroral electrojet index data, Phys. Rev. Lett., 76, 4082-4085.
20. Goldstein, M. L., and D. A. Roberts (1999), Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind, Phys. Plasma, 6, 4154-4159.
21. Goldstein, M. L., D. A. Roberts, and W. H. Matthaeus (1995), Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 33, 283-325.
22. Goldstein, M. L., D. A. Roberts, and W. H. Matthaeus (1997), Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in cosmic winds, in Cosmic Hinds and the Heliosphere, edited by J. R. Jokipii, C. P. Sonett, and M. S. Giampapa, pp. 521-579, Univ. of Ariz. Press, Tucson.
23. Hnat, B., S. C. Chapman, G. Rowlands, N. W. Watkins, and W. M. Farrell (2002), Finite size scaling in the solar wind magnetic field energy density as seen by WIND, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(10), 1446, doi:10.1029/2001GL014587.
24. Horbury, T. S., and A. Balogh (2004), Structure function measurements of the intermittent MHD turbulent cascade, Nonlinear Processes Geophys., 4, 185-199.
25. Kadomtsev, B. (1965), Plasma Turbulence, Elsevier, New York.
26. Klimas, A. J., J. A. Valdivia, D. Vassiliadis, D. N. Baker, M. Hesse, and J. Takalo (2000), Self-organized criticality in the storm phenomenon and its relation to localized reconnection in the magnetospheric plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 18,765-18,780.
27. Kolmogorov, A. N. (1941), The local structure of turbulence in incompressible viscous fluid for very large Reynolds' numbers, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 30, 301-305.
28. Kraichnan, R. H. (1965), Inertial range of hydromagnetic turbulence, Phys. Fluids, 8, 1385-1387.
29. Leung, P. T., and C. H. Gibson (2005), Turbulence and fossil turbulence in oceans and lakes, Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., in press.
30. Lui, A. T. Y. (2001), Multifractal and intermittent nature of substormassociated magnetic turbulence in the magnetotail, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., 63, 1379-1385.
31. Lui, A. T. Y. (2002), Multiscale phenomena in the near-Earth magnetosphere, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., 64, 125-143.
32. L'vov, V. S., and I. Procaccia (1998), Computing the scaling exponents in fluid turbulence from first principles: The formal setup, Physica A, 257, 165-196.
33. Matthaeus, W. H., and M. L. Goldstein (1982), Measurements of the rugged invariants of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind, J. Geophys. Res., 57, 6011-6028.
34. McPherron, R. L., et al. (2002), A comparison of Cluster observations of the tail current during substorms and quiet times, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., SM71A-0574.
35. Meneveau, C., and K. R. Sreenivasan (1991), The multifractal nature of turbulent energy dissipation, J. Fluid Mech., 224, 429-484.
36. Naert, A., L. Puech, B. Chabaud, J. Peinke, B. Castaing, and B. Hèbral (1994), Velocity intermittency in turbulence-How to objectively characterize it, J. Phys. Ii, 4, 215-224.
37. Neagu, E., S. P. Gary, J. E. Borovsky, W. Baumjohann, and R. A. Treumann (2001), Constraints on magnetic fluctuation energies in the plasma sheet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 919-922.
38. Paladin, G., and A. Vulpiani (1987), Anomalous scaling law in multifractal objects, Phys. Rep., 156, 147.
39. Rème, H., et al. (1997), The Cluster ion spectrometry (CIS) experiment, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 303-350.
40. Roberts, D. A., and M. L. Goldstein (1987), Spectral signatures of jumps and turbulence in interplanetary speed and magnetic field data, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 10,105-10,110.
41. Sorriso-Valvo, L., V. Carbone, and P. Veltri (1999), Intermittency in the solar wind turbulence through probability distribution functions of fluc-tuations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1801-1804.
42. Sorriso-Valvo, L., V. Carbone, P. Giuliani, P. Veltri, R. Bruno, V. Antoni, and E. Martines (2001), Intermittency in plasma turbulence, Planet. Space Sci., 49, 1193-1200.
43. Thompson, S., M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana, R. L. McPherron, A. Balogh, H. Rème, L. M. Kistler, and J. M. Weygand (2003), Multispacecraft studies of the structure and dynamics of the magnetotail current sheet, in Geophysical Research Abstracts [CD-ROM], vol. 5, Eur. Geophys. Union, Nice, France, April.
44. Tu, C.-Y., and E. Marsch (1995), MHD structures, waves and turbulence in the solar wind: Observations and theories, Space Sci. Rev., 73, 1-210.
45. Vörös, Z., et al. (2003), Multi-scale magnetic field intermittence in the plasma sheet, Ann. Geophys., 21, 1955-1964.