Simulations of ring current proton pitch angle distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A1, 1998, Pages 165-178

  Chen, Margaret W ^a   Roeder, James L ^a   Fennell, Joseph F ^a   Lyons, Larry R ^a   Schulz, Michael ^b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038098119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Anderson, B. J., R. B. Decker, N. P. Paschalidis, and T. Sarris, Onset of nonadiabatic particle motion in the near-Earth magnetotail, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 17,553-17,569, 1997.
2. Birmingham, T. J., Pitch angle diffusion in the Jovian magnetodisk, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 2699-2707, 1984.
3. Bostrom, C. O., D. S. Beall, and J. C. Armstrong, Time history of the inner radiation zone, October 1963 to December 1968, J. Geophys. Res., 75, 1245-1256, 1970.
4. Brice, N. M., Bulk motion of the magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 72, 5193-5211, 1967.
5. Chen, M. W., M. Schulz, L. R. Lyons, and D. J. Gorney, Ion radial diffusion in an electrostatic impulse model for stormtime ring current formation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 621-624, 1992.
6. Chen, M. W., M. Schulz, L. R. Lyons, and D. J. Gorney, Stormtime transport of ring current and radiation-belt ions, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 3835-3849, 1993.
7. Chen, M. W., L. R. Lyons, and M. Schulz, Simulations of phase space distributions of storm time proton ring current, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 5745-5759, 1994.
8. Christon, S. P., D. J. Williams, D. G. Mitchell, L. A. Frank, and C. Y. Huang, Spectral characteristics of plasma sheet ion and electron populations during undisturbed geomagnetic conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 13,409-13,424, 1989.
9. Cornwall, J. M., Diffusion processes influenced by conjugate-point wave phenomena, Radio Sci., 3, 740-744, 1968.
10. Cornwall, J. M., Radial diffusion of ionized helium and protons: A probe for magnetospheric dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 77, 1756-1770, 1972.
11. Cornwall, J. M., F. V. Coroniti, and R. M. Thorne, Turbulent loss of ring current protons, J. Geophys. Res., 75, 4699-4709, 1970.
12. Craven, J. D., Temporal variations of electron intensities at low altitudes in the outer radiation zone as observed with satellite Injun 3, J. Geophys. Res., 71, 5643-5663, 1966.
13. Dessler, A. J., and E. N. Parker, Hydrodynamic theory of geomagnetic storms, J. Geophys. Res., 64, 2239-2252, 1959.
14. Dungey, J. W., Interplanetary magnetic field and the auroral zones, Phys. Rev. Lett., 6, 47-48, 1961.
15. Parley, T. A., and M. Walt, Source and loss processes of protons of the inner radiation belt, J. Geophys. Res., 76, 8223-8240, 1971.
16. Fok, M.-C., J. U. Kozyra, A. F. Nagy, and T. E. Cravens, Lifetime of ring current particles due to Coulomb collisions in the plasmasphere, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 7861-7867, 1991.
17. Fok, M.-C., J. U. Kozyra, A. F. Nagy, C. E. Rasmussen, and G. V. Khazarov, Decay of equatorial ring current ions and associated aeronomical consequences, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 19,381-19,393, 1993.
18. Fok, M.-C., T. E. Moore, J. U. Kozyra, G. C. Ho, and D. C. Hamilton, Three-dimensional ring current decay model, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 9619-9632, 1995.
19. Fok, M.-C., T. E. Moore, and M. E. Greenspan, Ring current development during storm main phase, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15,311-15,322, 1996.
20. Frank, L. A., On the extraterrestrial ring current during geomagnetic storms, J. Geophys. Res., 72, 3753-3768, 1967.
21. Frank, L. A., and H. D. Owens, Omnidirectional intensity contours of low-energy protons (0.5 ≲ E < 50 keV) in the Earth's outer radiation zone at the magnetic equator, J. Geophys. Res., 75, 1269-1278, 1970.
22. Garcia, H. A., and W. N. Spjeldvik, Anisotropy characteristics of geomagnetically trapped ions, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 347-358, 1985.
23. Haerendel, G., Diffusion theory of trapped particles and the observed proton distribution, in Earth's Particles and Fields, edited by B. M. McCormac, pp. 171-191, Reinhold, New York, 1968.