Multi-scale magnetic field intermittence in the plasma sheet
Space Physics
2016-08-16 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that intermittent magnetic field fluctuations in the plasma sheet exhibit transitory, localized, and multi-scale features. We propose a multifractal based algorithm, which quantifies intermittence on the basis of the statistical distribution of the 'strength of burstiness', estimated within a sliding window. Interesting multi-scale phenomena observed by the Cluster spacecraft include large scale motion of the current sheet and bursty bulk flow associated turbulence, interpreted as a cross-scale coupling (CSC) process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0410206,
title = {Multi-scale magnetic field intermittence in the plasma sheet},
author = {Z. Vörös and W. Baumjohann and R. Nakamura and A. Runov and T. L. Zhang and M. Volwerk and H. U. Eichelberger and A. Balogh and T. S. Horbury and K. -H. Glaßmeier and B. Klecker and H. Rème},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0410206},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, 7 figures