Turbulent energy transfer and dissipation in the terrestrial magnetosheath

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<p>The terrestrial magnetosheath (MS) represents a turbulent, high-beta, compressional, sporadically Alfvenic environment which contains the shocked solar wind (SW) magnetized plasma permeated with waves, instabilities and structures of various origins. In the processes of interaction of the structured SW with the shock and the MS, the electromagnetic, kinetic and thermal energies are transported between locations, &#160;transferred between scales, conversed between each other and finally dissipated. Similarly to the SW case the energy transfer in MS is expected to be manifested in typical scalings seen in power spectral densities of various field and plasma parameters&#160; over the fluid (inertial-range) and kinetic ion-electron scales. However, near the sub-solar dayside MS the inertial-range turbulent cascade is usually absent, while the kinetic range scaling roughly remains the same as in the SW. Observations of short magnetic correlation lengths near the sub-solar MS also confirm the absence of large-scale magnetic fluctuations which could populate the inertial-range of scales. Without the inertial range energy cascade the kinetic range turbulence should exhibit a fast decay downstream of the shock, but it is not observed. We argue that to understand the spectral scalings in the MS the whole energy budget has to be considered including possible nonlocal energy transfer terms. By using MMS data in the MS we show that, when the inertial range is present, the turbulent energy dissipation rate can be estimated by the energy transfer rate from both the Yaglom law and from the pressure-strain interaction term. When the inertial range is absent and the Yaglom law cannot be used, &#160;the dissipation rate can still be estimated by using the pressure-strain term.</p>
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