Small-Scale Structure in the Solar Wind and Its Effect on Earth

SHINE co-convener: Joe Borovsky <jborovsky @ lanl.gov>

GEM co-convener: Beniot Lavraud <Benoit.Lavraud @ cesr.fr>

On Tuesday June 24, between 1:30 – 3:30 pm, was held one of the several Coordinated GEM-SHINE sessions. This session was devoted to “Small scale structure in the solar wind and its effect on Earth”. It was proposed by J. E. Borovsky and chaired B. Lavraud and J. Steinberg. The aim of the session was to promote discussions between experts that address topics which, though often studied separately, all eventually act together in the driving magnetospheric activity.

The topics that were addressed during the session, and the experts that discussed those, included:

- The propagation of solar wind structures in the solar wind; (Dan Weimer, Chris Russell)

- Periodic variations and turbulence in solar wind; (Nicky Viall, David Ruffolo)

- Magnetospheric reaction to solar wind structures (e.g., substorms); (Nicky Viall, Tung-Shin Hsu, Raluca Ilie)

- Structure during High-Speed Streams and influence on Earth. (Steinberg for Borovsky)

- Current sheets hitting Earth and foreshock influence; (Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Larry Lyons)