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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear “loops” friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You might be interested in the paper that Spiro and I just published concerning the role of turbulence in forming the current sheets that spawn nanoflares in the magnetically closed corona: 
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We argue that the sheets form primarily from other processes, unrelated to turbulence. Localized temporary bursts of turbulence may nonetheless be generated when the sheets reconnect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We argue that the magnetically closed corona evolves primarily quasi-statically, punctuated by many localized bursts of activity associated with magnetic reconnection at a myriad of small current
 sheets. <a name="_Hlk54855906">The sheets form by various processes that do not involve a traditional turbulent cascade whereby energy flows losslessly through a continuum of spatial scales starting from the large scale of the photospheric driving. I</a>f
 such an inertial range is a defining characteristic of turbulence, then the magnetically closed corona is not a turbulent system. It nonetheless has a complex structure that bears no direct relationship to the pattern of driving.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">James A. Klimchuk</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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