Articles | Volume 41, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-313-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-313-2023
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17 Aug 2023
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Comparison of radiation belt electron fluxes simultaneously measured with PROBA-V/EPT and RBSP/MagEIS instruments

Alexandre Winant, Viviane Pierrard, and Edith Botek

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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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