The Role of Nonlinear Processes and New Radiation Belt Modeling Capabilities and the Quantification of Model Uncertainties

Friday, 9 March 2018: 10:30-12:00
Longshot and Bogey (Hotel Quinta da Marinha)
Official:  Richard B. Horne, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:30
Particle Trapping and Acceleration at Dipolarization Fronts: High-Resolution MHD and Test-Particle Simulations (329753) PDF
Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy1, Kareem Sorathia2, Viacheslav G Merkin1, Mikhail I. Sitnov1, Donald G Mitchell2, Matina Gkioulidou2, John Lyon3 and Michael James Wiltberger4, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
10:50
Formation Process of the Outer Radiation Belt Through Nonlinear Interaction with Chorus Emissions Localized in Longitude (330898) PDF
Yoshiharu Omura, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan and Yuko Kubota, RISH Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan
11:10
Quantifying the Effect of Strong Subpacket Structure in VLF Chorus Rising Tones on Radiation Belt Acceleration (330069) PDF
John C Foster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Geospace Sciences, Westford, MA, United States, Yoshiharu Omura, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States and Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
11:25
Identifying the Cause of Outer Radiation Belt Enhancements: The Importance of Accounting for the K-Dependence of and uncertainties in the Electron Phase Space Density. (Invited) (331042) PDF
Louis Ozeke1, Ian Mann1, Kyle R Murphy2 and Seth G Claudepierre3, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:45
Simulating Butterfly Pitch Angle Distributions in the Inner Zone: Sensitivity to Wave Models (329663) PDF
Jay Albert1, Nigel Peter Meredith2, Sarah A Glauert3 and Richard Bertram Horne2, (1)Air Force Research Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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