
Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere.
Title:
Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere.
Author:
Summers, Danny.
ISBN:
9781118704370
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (706 pages)
Series:
Geophysical Monograph Ser. ; v.199
Geophysical Monograph Ser.
Contents:
COVER -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section I: Historical Perspective -- Space Weather: Affecting Technologies on Earth and in Space -- Section II: Current State of Knowledge of Radiation Belts -- SAMPEX: A Long-Serving Radiation Belt Sentinel -- Large-Amplitude Whistler Waves and Electron Acceleration in the Earth's Radiation Belts: A Review of STEREO and Wind Observation -- Classification of Pc1-2 Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves at Geosynchronous Orbit -- The Role of Ultralow Frequency Waves in Radiation Belt Dynamics -- Section III: Space Missions -- NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission: From Concept to Reality -- The Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) Project -- RESONANCE Project for Studies of Wave-Particle Interactions in the Inner Magnetosphere -- Section IV: Modeling and Simulations -- Global Structure of ULF Waves During the 24-26 September 1998 Geomagnetic Storm -- ULF Wave-Driven Radial Diffusion Simulations of the Outer Radiation Belt -- Nonlinear Radial Transport in the Earth's Radiation Belts -- Section V: Radiation Belt Injections, Dropouts, and Magnetospheric Variability -- Time Scales for Localized Radiation Belt Injections to Become a Thin Shell -- Rebuilding Process of the Outer Electron Radiation Belt: The Spacecraft Akebono Observations -- The Shock Injection of 24 March 1991: Another Look -- Outer Radiation Belt Flux Dropouts: Current Understanding and Unresolved Questions -- Rapid Radiation Belt Losses Occurring During High-Speed Solar Wind Stream-Driven Storms: Importance of Energetic Electron Precip -- Background Magnetospheric Variability as Inferred From Long Time Series of GOES Data -- Section VI: Wave-Particle Interactions -- Generation Processes of Whistler Mode Chorus Emissions: Current Status of Nonlinear Wave Growth Theory.
Aspects of Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions -- Linear and Nonlinear Growth of Magnetospheric Whistler Mode Waves -- High-Energy Electron Diffusion by Resonant Interactions With Whistler Mode Hiss -- Recent Advances in Understanding the Diffuse Auroral Precipitation: The Role of Resonant Wave-Particle Interactions -- Section VII: Energy Coupling in the Inner Magnetosphere -- The Role of the Earth's Ring Current in Radiation Belt Dynamics -- Ring Current Asymmetry and the Love-Gannon Relation -- The Importance of the Plasmasphere Boundary Layer for Understanding Inner Magnetosphere Dynamics -- The Role of Quiet Time Ionospheric Plasma in the Storm Time Inner Magnetosphere -- Cold Ion Outflow as a Source of Plasma for the Magnetosphere -- What Happens When the Geomagnetic Field Reverses? -- Section VIII: Radiation Belts and Space Weather -- What the Satellite Design Community Needs From the Radiation Belt Science Community -- Storm Responses of Radiation Belts During Solar Cycle 23: HEO Satellite Observations -- Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment: Differential Flux Measurements of Energetic Particles in a Highly Inclined Low Earth -- Section IX: Radiation Belts Beyond Earth -- Radiation Belts of the Solar System and Universe -- Plasma Wave Observations at Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn -- AGU Category Index.
Abstract:
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 199. Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere draws together current knowledge of the radiation belts prior to the launch of Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RPSP) and other imminent space missions, making this volume timely and unique. The volume will serve as a useful benchmark at this exciting and pivotal period in radiation belt research in advance of the new discoveries that the RPSP mission will surely bring. Highlights include the following: a review of the current state of the art of radiation belt science; a complete and up-to-date account of the wave-particle interactions that control the dynamical acceleration and loss processes of particles in the Earth's radiation belts and inner magnetosphere; a discussion emphasizing the importance of the cross-energy coupling of the particle populations of the radiation belts, ring current, and plasmasphere in controlling the dynamics of the inner magnetosphere; an outline of the design and operation of future satellite missions whose objectives are to discover the dominant physical processes that control the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts and to advance our level of understanding of radiation belt dynamics ideally to the point of predictability; and an examination of the current state of knowledge of Earth's radiation belts from past and current spacecraft missions to the inner magnetosphere. Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere will be a useful reference work for the specialist researcher, the student, and the general reader. In addition, the volume could be used as a supplementary text in any graduate-level course in space physics in which radiation belt physics is featured.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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