Annales Geophysicae
Annales Geophysicae
ANGEO
Articles | Volume 41, issue 2
Articles | Volume 41, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-313-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-313-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 41, issue 2
Regular paper
 | 
17 Aug 2023
Regular paper |  | 17 Aug 2023

Comparison of radiation belt electron fluxes simultaneously measured with PROBA-V/EPT and RBSP/MagEIS instruments

Alexandre Winant, Viviane Pierrard, and Edith Botek

Data sets

The Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) on board Proba-V: description of a new science-class instrument for particle detection in space (https://swe.ssa.esa.int/space-radiation) M. Cyamukungu, S. Benck, S. Borisov, L. Bonnet, Gh. Grégoire, J. Cabrera, B. Desoete, Ch. Semaille, J. DeSaedeleer, G. Creve, E. VanRansbeek, J. Maes, S. Bonnewijn, E. Neefs, V. Pierrard, J. Lemaire, D. Moreau, M. Anciaux, A. Helderweirt, K. Litefti, P. Nieminen, E. Valtonen, R. Punkkinen, and H. Wojtek https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2014.2361955

RBSP-ECT combined pitch angle resolved electron flux data product A. J. Boyd, H. Spence, G. Reeves, H. Funsten, R. M. Skoug, B. A. Larsen, J. Blake, J. Fennell, S. Claudepierre, and D. N. Baker https://rbsp-ect.newmexicoconsortium.org/data_pub/

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Short summary
In this work, we analyzed and compared measurements of electron fluxes in the radiation belts from two instruments with different orbits. In the outer belt, where the altitude difference is the largest between the two instruments, we find that the observations are in good agreement, except during geomagnetic storms, during which fluxes at low altitudes are much lower than at high altitudes. In general, both at low and high altitudes, the correlation between the instruments was found to be good.
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