In the context of space and astrophysical plasma turbulence and particle heating, several vocabularies emerge for estimating turbulent energy dissipation rate, including Kolmogorov-Yaglom third-order law and, in its various forms, $boldsymbol{j}cdotboldsymbol{E}$ (work done by the electromagnetic field on particles), and $-left( boldsymbol{P} cdot abla right) cdot boldsymbol{u}$ (pressure-strain interaction), to name a couple. It is now understood that these energy transfer channels, to some extent, are correlated with coherent structures. In particular, we find that different energy dissipation proxies, although not point-wise correlated, are concentrated in proximity to each other, for which they decorrelate in a few $d_i$(s). However, the energy dissipation proxies dominate at different scales. For example, there is an inertial range over which the third-order law is meaningful. Contributions from scale bands stemming from scale-dependent spatial filtering show that, the energy exchange through $boldsymbol{j}cdotboldsymbol{E}$ mainly results from large scales, while the energy conversion from fluid flow to internal through $-left( boldsymbol{P} cdot abla right) cdot boldsymbol{u}$ dominates at small scales.
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