title: Third-moment descriptions of the interplanetary turbulent cascade, intermittency and back transfer.
abstract: We review some aspects of solar wind turbulence with an emphasis on the ability of the turbulence to account for the observed heating of the solar wind. Particular attention is paid to the use of structure functions in computing energy cascade rates and their general agreement with the measured thermal proton heating. We then examine the use of 1 h data samples that are comparable in length to the correlation length for the fluctuations to obtain insights into local inertial range dynamics and find evidence for intermittency in the computed energy cascade rates. When the magnetic energy dominates the kinetic energy, there is evidence of anti-correlation in the cascade of energy associated with the outward- and inward-propagating components that we can only partially explain.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
authors.forename: Jesse T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Coburn
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Miriam A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Forman
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA charles.smith@unh.edu.
authors.forename: Charles W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
authors.forename: Bernard J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Vasquez
authors.affiliation: Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Julia E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Stawarz
keywords: cascade; heating; turbulence
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