Released by way of the yank Geophysical Union as a part of the Geophysical Monograph sequence, quantity 93.
A vital objective of area plasma researchers is to appreciate the impression of assorted delivery procedures on one another, even if such procedures function at commonly various spatial and temporal scales. we all know that large-scale plasma flows in house bring about risky stipulations with small spatial (centimeters to meters) and temporal (microseconds to seconds) scales. The large-scale flows, for instance within the magnetosphere-ionosphere process, contain scale lengths of kilometers to a number of Earth radii and temporal scales of mins to hours. We needs to recognize particular contextual solutions to the questions: Do the small-scale waves (microprocesses) adjust the large-scale flows? Do those alterations considerably impact the delivery of mass, momentum, and effort? How can such coupling methods and their impacts be printed observationally? And, possibly so much not easy of all, how can we comprise the microprocesses into theoretical types of larger-scale area plasma shipping?
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