DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3466079
title: Rapid Outer Radiation Belt Flux Dropouts and Fast Acceleration during the March 2015 and 2013 Storms: The Role of ULF Wave Ttansport From a Dynamic Outer Boundary

description: Duplicate copy of the electron phase space density provided for the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) challenge event in March 2013 selected by the <em>Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling</em> focus group. The original copy of the data is available from https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0ByNhSbWkAgdfaGt6TnJMcElhUTg Data Providers:<br> Michael G. Henderson (LANL; mghenderson@lanl.gov)<br> Steven K. Morley (LANL; smorley@lanl.gov) This data product provides electron phase space density from the Van Allen Probes<br> ECT suite of instruments. The data are calculated similarly to the method described<br> in Morley et al. (2013), with some differences that are noted below. The files are provided in HDF5 format, so the files are self-describing and contain<br> ISTP-style metadata. The files should be directly readable with:<br> - SpacePy (http://sourceforge.net/p/spacepy)<br> - import the spacepy.datamodel module, use the function fromHDF5 to read the data<br> - Autoplot (http://autoplot.org)<br> - MatLab and IDL provide convience routines for reading HDF5 Method<br> ------<br> Starting with directional differential flux data from HOPE, MagEIS and REPT, we<br> calculate the PSD as a function of energy, pitch angle, position and time.<br> Following the same basic method given by Morley et al., we transform this to phase <br> space density as a function of the three adiabatic invariants (M, K, L*); note that<br> where Morley et al. used a relativistic Maxwellian fit to the flux spectrum, these<br> data use a smoothing spline fit so that more complex spectral shapes can be<br> represented. Note also that Morley et al. only used REPT, where these files represent<br> the energy ranges of MagEIS and REPT, but also use HOPE to constrain the fit at low<br> energies. While the pitch angles are determined using the EMFISIS data, all three adiabatic <br> invariants are derived from a magnetic field model. These PSD data files use the<br> Tsyganenko and Sitnov (2005) model (aka TS04, T05 or TS05). The models were run using<br> the "definitive" Qin-Denton data files provided by the RBSP ECT-SOC. These files<br> should be made available through the QARBM google drive. <br> Caveats<br> -------<br> These data should be considered preliminary. They have undergone a limited amount of<br> verification and prior to publication the data providers should be contacted. New<br> versions of these data may be generated at some point - we do not expect noticeable <br> changes to the data present.<br> Some gaps may be present in the files that are due to calculation of the adiabatic <br> invariants failing. The issues causing these gaps have been resolved in the underlying <br> software, but the data have not yet been regenerated. <br> References<br> ----------<br> Morley, S. K., M. G. Henderson, G. D. Reeves, R. H. W. Friedel, and D. N. Baker (2013), <br> Phase Space Density matching of relativistic electrons using the Van Allen Probes: REPT results,<br> Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4798-4802, doi:10.1002/grl.50909. Tsyganenko, N. A., and M. I. Sitnov (2005), <br> Modeling the dynamics of the inner magnetosphere during strong geomagnetic storms, <br> J. Geophys. Res., 110, A03208, doi:10.1029/2004JA010798.<br>