Mesoscale Phenomena & their Contribution to the Global Response: A Focus on the Magnetotail Transition Region & Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Whitepaper #114 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: planetary magnetospheres; system science.
by Christine Gabrielse, Matina Gkioulidou, Margaret Chen, Shin Ohtani, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Jiang Liu, Yue Deng, Joachim Birn, Amy Keesee, David Malaspina, Drew L. Turner, Andrei Runov, Tony Lui, Cheng Sheng, Mary Hudson, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Larry R. Lyons, Chih-Ping Wang, Emma Spanswick, Eric Donovan, Stephen R. Kaeppler, Kareem Sorathia, Larry Kepko, Shasha Zou, Doğacan Ozturk, Jason Derr, and Thomas Y. Chen
Published onJul 31, 2023
Mesoscale Phenomena & their Contribution to the Global Response: A Focus on the Magnetotail Transition Region & Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
An important question that is being increasingly studied across subdisciplines of Heliophysics is “how do mesoscale phenomena contribute to the global response of the system?” This white paper focuses on this question within two specific but interlinked regions in Near-Earth space: the magnetotail’s transition region to the inner magnetosphere and the ionosphere.
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