Radiation belt slot-region filling events: sustained energetic precipitation into the mesosphere

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• Main Authors: Kavanagh, Andrew J., Cobbett, Neil, Kirsch, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: The Slot; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520356/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520356/1/Kavanagh_et_al-2018-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research__Space_Physics.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JA025890

Precipitation of energetic electrons to the atmosphere is both a loss mechanism for radiation belt particles and a means by which the geospace environment influences the Earth's atmosphere; thus it is important to fully understand the extent of this precipitation. A set of polar orbiting satell...