Investigation of solar wind and magnetospheric forcing effects on the outer Van Allen belt through multi-point measurements in the inner magnetosphere

Ioannis A. Daglis1,2, Christos Katsavrias3, Marina Georgiou2,4, Drew L Turner5, Ingmar Sandberg2,4, Georgios Balasis6 and Konstantinos Papadimitriou4,6, (1)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Department of Physics, Athens, Greece, (2)National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, (3)National Observatory of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece, (4)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS), Athens, Greece
Abstract:
We have investigated the response of the outer Van Allen belt electrons to various types of solar wind and internal magnetospheric forcing – in particular to Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs), to geospace magnetic storms of different intensities and to intense magnetospheric substorms. We have employed multi-point particle and field observations in the inner magnetosphere (both in-situ and through ground-based remote sensing), including the Cluster, THEMIS, Van Allen Probes and GOES constellations, the XMM and INTEGRAL spacecraft, and the CARISMA and IMAGE ground magnetometer arrays. The data provide a broad range of particle energies and a wide radial and azimuthal spatial coverage. This work has received support from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-SPACE-2011-1) under grant agreement no. 284520 for the MAARBLE (Monitoring, Analysing and Assessing Radiation Belt Energization and Loss) collaborative research project.
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