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SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 122, Issue 1-4, Pages 301-311Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-006-6987-7
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turbulence; plasma sheet; bursty flows
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During the last several years significant progress has been made in understanding MHD turbulence in the Earth's plasma sheet. Due to the statistically transitory properties of fluctuations, finite size and boundary effects, however, issues of fundamental importance remain unresolved. Here we concentrate on such intrinsic features of plasma sheet turbulence as its origin and dynamical nature. In particular, we investigate bursty bulk flow driven multi-scale transfer of energy towards the dissipation scale, and provide evidence for the presence of non-linear interactions. We show that, in contrast with previous results, Alfvenic fluctuations together with 2D eddy interactions may appear as important constituents of turbulence in the plasma sheet.
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