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In Situ Data and Effect Correlation During September 2017 Solar Particle Event
Müller, D.; Vainio, R.; Sánchez-Cano, B. +28 more
Solar energetic particles are one of the main sources of particle radiation seen in space. In the first part of September 2017 the most active solar period of cycle 24 produced four large X-class flares and a series of (interplanetary) coronal mass ejections, which gave rise to radiation storms seen over all energies and at the ground by neutron m…
Electron Intensity Measurements by the Cluster/RAPID/IES Instrument in Earth's Radiation Belts and Ring Current
Daly, P. W.; Kronberg, E. A.; Taylor, M. G. G. T. +7 more
The Cluster mission, launched in 2000, has produced a large database of electron flux intensity measurements in the Earth's magnetosphere by the Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detector (RAPID)/Imaging Electron Spectrometer (IES) instrument. However, due to background contamination of the data with high-energy electrons (>400 keV) and i…
Testing Efficiency of Empirical, Adaptive, and Global MHD Magnetospheric Models to Represent the Geomagnetic Field in a Variety of Conditions
Sergeev, V. A.; Zheng, Y.; Tsyganenko, N. A. +1 more
We used data for eight magnetospheric spacecraft providing magnetic observations in various magnetospheric domains during a six-day time period, including the June 2015 storm, and a five-day period including the March 2015 storm. For these time intervals, containing different solar wind regimes and different activity levels, we used three types of…
Extension of an Empirical Electron Flux Model From 6 to 20 Earth Radii Using Cluster/RAPID Observations
Taylor, M. G. G. T.; Henderson, M. G.; Rodriguez, J. V. +1 more
An existing empirical model of the electron fluxes at geosynchronous orbit is extended radially outward in the equatorial plane to 6-20 Earth radii (RE) using observations from the Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors (RAPID) instrument on the Cluster spacecraft. The new model provides electron flux predictions in the energ…
Development of a 3-D Plasmapause Model With a Back-Propagation Neural Network
He, Fei; Lei, Jiuhou; Zhang, Xiao-Xin +2 more
Several empirical models have been previously developed to study the characteristics of the global plasmasphere. A three-dimensional solar wind-driven global dynamic plasmapause model was developed in this study using a back-propagation neural network based on multisatellite measurements. Our database contains 37,859 plasmapause crossing events fr…