Radiation Belt Dynamic and Quasi-Static Modeling Based on CRRES Data: Outer-Belt Short-Term Response Data Base

Abstract

New features of the outer radiation belt dynamic response to geomagnetic storms are characterized using CRRES data. The response is found to have an intermediate (10-20 days) time scale and an intense short time scale (1- 2 days). The intermediate time scale changes are characterized as invariant- violating diffusion, as has been developed by us for SCATHA data. The short time scale decreases of flux are characterized as adiabatic (reversible) dynamics, conserving the first variant under trapping volume change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA256483

Entities

People

  • M. A. Rinaldi
  • R. M. Robinson
  • R. W. Nightingale
  • W. E. Francis
  • Y. T. Chiu

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Apogees
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Diffusion
  • Distribution Functions
  • Dynamic Response
  • Dynamics
  • Electron Flux
  • Elliptical Orbits
  • Geometry
  • High Energy
  • Magnetic Disturbances
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnetic Storms
  • Radiation

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.