Multi-scale
Coupled Systems
- Spatial scales vary from centimeters
to 200 RE
- Temporal scales vary from less than
milliseconds to days
- kinetic effects have large-scale
consequences
Multi-physics
- electron physics: e.g., controls reconnection
- ion physics: e.g., dominates formation of boundaries and
transport
- global features and dynamics:
e.g., extent of the magnetotail
- coupling to the ionosphere