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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 121, Issue 9, Pages 8448-8461Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JA022916
Keywords
radiation belts; dropouts; solar wind and geomagnetic drivers
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- European Union [637302 PROGRESS]
- STFC
- EPSRCEP/H00453X-1
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Large decreases of daily average electron flux, or dropouts, were investigated for a range of energies from 24.1keV to 2.7MeV, on the basis of a large database of 20years of measurements from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) geosynchronous satellites. Dropouts were defined as flux decreases by at least a factor 4 in 1day, or a factor 9 in 2days during which a decrease by at least a factor of 2.5 must occur each day. Such decreases were automatically identified. As a first result, a comprehensive statistics of the mean waiting time between dropouts and of their mean magnitude has been provided as a function of electron energy. Moreover, the Error Reduction Ratio analysis was applied to explore the possible nonlinear relationships between electron dropouts and various exogenous factors, such as solar wind and geomagnetic indices. Different dropout occurrences and magnitudes were found in three distinct energy ranges, lower than 100keV, 100-600keV, and larger than 600keV, corresponding to different groups of drivers and loss processes. Potential explanations have been outlined on the basis of the statistical results.
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