Modeling magnetopause location for 4D drift-resolved radiation belt codes: Salammbô model implementation

Kiraz, Rabia; Dahmen, Nour; Maget, Vincent; Lavraud, Benoit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-369-2025

Articles | Volume 43, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-369-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-369-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 43, issue 2

Regular paper

|

03 Jul 2025

Regular paper |

| 03 Jul 2025

Modeling magnetopause location for 4D drift-resolved radiation belt codes: Salammbô model implementation

Rabia Kiraz, Nour Dahmen, Vincent Maget, and Benoit Lavraud

Model code and software

PRBEM/IRBEM: v5.0.0 (IRBEM-5.0.0) D. Boscher et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6867768

SpacePy S. K. Morley et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7083375

Short summary

The magnetopause represents the outer boundary of Earth's magnetosphere, protecting structures like the Van Allen radiation belts from solar wind. The magnetopause's position affects the radiation belts' behavior, causing strong and quick particle losses during geomagnetic storms. This study presents a new model to estimate the magnetopause position oriented toward drift-resolved radiation belt modeling codes.