Multi-satellite simultaneous observations of magnetopause and atmospheric  losses of radiation belt electrons during an intense solar wind dynamic  pressure pulse

Xiang, Zheng; Ni, Binbin; Zhou, Chen; Zou, Zhengyang; Gu, Xudong; Zhao, Zhengyu; Zhang, Xianguo; Zhang, Xiaoxin; Zhang, Shenyi; Li, Xinlin; Zuo, Pingbing; Spence, Harlan; Reeves, Geoffrey

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-493-2016

Articles | Volume 34, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-493-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-493-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 34, issue 5

Regular paper

|

03 May 2016

Regular paper |

| 03 May 2016

Multi-satellite simultaneous observations of magnetopause and atmospheric losses of radiation belt electrons during an intense solar wind dynamic pressure pulse

Zheng Xiang, Binbin Ni, Chen Zhou, Zhengyang Zou, Xudong Gu, Zhengyu Zhao, Xianguo Zhang, Xiaoxin Zhang, Shenyi Zhang, Xinlin Li, Pingbing Zuo, Harlan Spence, and Geoffrey Reeves

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-493-2016-supplement

Data sets

Cubesats, CSSWE REPTile data, Goddard Space Flight Center, Space Physics Data Facility Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdaweb/sp_phys/

GOES Space Environment Monitor Data & Plots National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA) http://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/goes/data/

POES Space Environment Monitor Data & Plots National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA) ftp://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/poes/

Van Allen Probes REPT/MagEIS data RBSP-ECT Data Portal http://www.rbsp-ect.lanl.gov/science/DataDirectories.php

Van Allen Probes EMFISIS data The RBSP-EMFISIS Team http://emfisis.physics.uiowa.edu/Flight/

THEMIS SST data The THEMIS Team http://themis.stp.isas.jaxa.jp/data/themis/

Short summary

We used 14 satellites(GOES, POES, THEMIS, RBSP, FENGYUN, REPTile) measurement to investigate the loss mechanisms of a electron dropout event during a intense solar wind dynamic pressure pulse. The observations demonstrated that magnetopause shadowing and atmospheric loss both play important roles in electron flux dropout. Moreover, substrom injections and convection strongly enhanced the energetic electron fluxes, which may delay other than avoid the occurrence of electron flux dropout.