On the radiation belt location during the 23rd and 24th solar cycles

Dmitriev, Alexei V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-719-2019

Articles | Volume 37, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-719-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-719-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 37, issue 4

Regular paper

|

13 Aug 2019

Regular paper |

| 13 Aug 2019

On the radiation belt location during the 23rd and 24th solar cycles

Alexei V. Dmitriev

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-719-2019-supplement

Data sets

Direct Access to POES SEM data NOAA https://ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/satellite/poes/dataaccess.html

Short summary

The Earth’s radiation belt (ERB) is formed by energetic particles caught in the geomagnetic trap. Within the last two solar cycles (from 2001 to 2018), observations of the ERB by a fleet of low-altitude POES satellites have allowed for the discovery of an abnormal equatorward displacement of the outer part of ERB in the Siberian sector. This displacement can partially explain the increase in the occurrence rate of midlatitude aurora borealis observed in the Eastern Hemisphere.