Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net 1023-5809 1607-7946 14 5 2007 10.5194/npg-14-649-2007 http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/14/649/2007/ http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/14/649/2007/npg-14-649-2007.html http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/14/649/2007/npg-14-649-2007.pdf 649 654 2007-10-24 Intermittent heating of the solar corona by MHD turbulence É. Buchlin e.buchlin@imperial.ac.uk Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK As the dissipation mechanisms considered for the heating of the solar corona would be sufficiently efficient only in the presence of small scales, turbulence is thought to be a key player in the coronal heating processes: it allows indeed to transfer energy from the large scales to these small scales. 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