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NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 95-108出版社
COPERNICUS PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-95-2008
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In this paper we give firstly a broad review of the space plasma turbulence around the ion characteristic space and temporal scales within two natural laboratories, the solar wind and the Earth magnetosheath. In both regions power law spectra of magnetic fluctuations are observed. In both regions these spectra have a break in the vicinity of the ion cyclotron frequency. A distinctive feature of the magnetosheath turbulence is the presence of Alfven vortices at scales of the spectral break. The Alfven vortices are multi-scale nonlinear structures. We give a review of the main theoretical features of incompressible Alfven vortsices in the second part of the paper. Finally, we analyze the spectral properties of the Alfven vortex solution and of the network of such vortices. We show that the observed magnetosheath spectrum in presence of the Alfven vortices can be described, at least partially, by the vortex network model.
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