Timescales for radiation belt electron acceleration and loss due to resonant wave‐particle interactions: 2. Evaluation for VLF chorus, ELF hiss, and electromagnetic ion …

D Summers, B Ni, NP Meredith - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Outer zone radiation belt electrons can undergo gyroresonant interaction with various
magnetospheric wave modes including whistler‐mode chorus outside the plasmasphere …

Outward radial diffusion driven by losses at magnetopause

YY Shprits, RM Thorne, R Friedel… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Loss mechanisms responsible for the sudden depletions of the outer electron radiation belt
are examined based on observations and radial diffusion modeling, with L*‐derived …

Substorm dependence of plasmaspheric hiss

NP Meredith, RB Horne, RM Thorne… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze wave and particle data from the CRRES satellite to determine the variability of
plasmaspheric hiss (0.1< f< 2 kHz) with respect to substorm activity as measured by AE …

Resonant scattering and resultant pitch angle evolution of relativistic electrons by plasmaspheric hiss

B Ni, J Bortnik, RM Thorne, Q Ma… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We perform a comprehensive analysis to evaluate hiss‐induced scattering effect on the pitch
angle evolution and associated decay processes of relativistic electrons. The results show …

Dynamic evolution of energetic outer zone electrons due to wave‐particle interactions during storms

W Li, YY Shprits, RM Thorne - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt are subjected to pitch angle and energy
diffusion by chorus, electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC), and hiss waves. Using quasi …

Recent developments in the radiation belt environment model

MC Fok, A Glocer, Q Zheng, RB Horne… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2011 - Elsevier
The fluxes of energetic particles in the radiation belts are found to be strongly controlled by
the solar wind conditions. In order to understand and predict the radiation particle intensities …

Slot region electron loss timescales due to plasmaspheric hiss and lightning‐generated whistlers

NP Meredith, RB Horne, SA Glauert… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Energetic electrons (E> 100 keV) in the Earth's radiation belts undergo Doppler‐shifted
cyclotron resonant interactions with a variety of whistler mode waves leading to pitch angle …

Quasi‐linear diffusion coefficients for field‐aligned electromagnetic waves with applications to the magnetosphere

D Summers - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Much current research in magnetospheric physics is directed toward understanding the
dramatic variations in relativistic (> 1 MeV) electron fluxes that can take place in the Earth's …

Empirically estimated electron lifetimes in the Earth's radiation belts: Comparison with theory

SG Claudepierre, Q Ma, J Bortnik… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We compute quasilinear diffusion rates due to pitch angle scattering by various mechanisms
in the Earth's electron radiation belts. The calculated theoretical lifetimes are compared with …

Relativistic electron precipitation by EMIC waves from self‐consistent global simulations

VK Jordanova, J Albert… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We study the effect of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) wave scattering on radiation belt
electrons during the large geomagnetic storm of 21 October 2001 with minimum Dst=− 187 …