The role of ring current particle injections: Global simulations and Van Allen Probes observations during 17 March 2013 storm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1126-1132

  Yu, Yiqun ^a   Jordanova, Vania ^a   Welling, Dan ^b   Larsen, Brian ^a   Claudepierre, Seth G ^c   Kletzing, Craig ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

ring current dynamics; self consistent treatment of fields and plasma; substorm injections; van allen probes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; PLASMA SHEATHS; STORMS;

BOUNDARY PLASMAS; DIPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD TRANSPORT; GLOBAL SIMULATION; PARTICLE INJECTION; RING CURRENTS; SELF-CONSISTENT TREATMENT; SUBSTORM INJECTIONS;

PROBES;

CONVECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STORM;

EID: 84894283739     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059322     Document Type: Article

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