Murphy, KR;
Mann, IR;
Rae, IJ;
Sibeck, DG;
Watt, CEJ;
(2016)
Accurately characterizing the importance of wave-particle interactions in radiation belt dynamics: The pitfalls of statistical wave representations.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
, 121
(8)
pp. 7895-7899.
10.1002/2016JA022618.
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Abstract
Wave-particle interactions play a crucial role in energetic particle dynamics in the Earth's radiation belts. However, the relative importance of different wave modes in these dynamics is poorly understood. Typically, this is assessed during geomagnetic storms using statistically averaged empirical wave models as a function of geomagnetic activity in advanced radiation belt simulations. However, statistical averages poorly characterize extreme events such as geomagnetic storms in that storm-time ultralow frequency wave power is typically larger than that derived over a solar cycle and Kp is a poor proxy for storm-time wave power.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Accurately characterizing the importance of wave-particle interactions in radiation belt dynamics: The pitfalls of statistical wave representations |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/2016JA022618 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022618 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©2016. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1528657 |
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