On the Role of the Last Closed Drift Shell in Fast Losses and Ultra-relativistic Electron Dynamics in the Van Allen Belts


Leonid Olifer1, Ian Robert Mann1, Louis Ozeke1, Steven Morley2, Kyle R Murphy3, Seth G Claudepierre4, Jonathan Rae5, David K Milling1, Andy Kale1 and Daniel N Baker6, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, United States, (5)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States