Three-dimensional reconstruction of the dynamic evolution of the Van Allen belts using multiple satellite measurements and a diffusion model

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Data assimilation aims to blend incomplete and inaccurate data with physics-based dynamical models. In the Earth's radiation belts, it is used to reconstruct electron phase space density, and it has become an increasingly important tool for validating our current understanding of radiation belt dynamics, identifying new physical processes, and predicting the near-Earth hazardous radiation environment.

The dataset presents the electron flux reconstructed by assimilating electron flux measurements of the following spacecraft into the 3D Versatile Electron Radiation Belt model (VERB; Shprits et al., 2008, Subbotin and Shprits, 2009):

  1. Van Allen Probes Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS; Blake et al., 2013) and Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT; Baker et al., 2013), and

  2. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Magnetospheric Electron Detector (MAGED; Hanser, 2011), and Energetic Proton, Electron, and Alpha Detector (EPEAD; Onsager et al., 1996, Hanser, 2011).

The method employs a split-operator Kalman filter (Shprits et al., 2013). The dataset contains electron flux for the period from 01 October 2012 00:00 UT to 01 October 2016 00:00 UT, organized in monthly files for selected values of electron energies (0.5 MeV, 1 MeV, and 2 MeV) and equatorial pitch angles (20 degree, 50 degree, and 70 degree).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.8.2020.003
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-012-9950-9
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7433-4_12
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028208
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027514
Related Identifier https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/satellite/goes/doc/goes_nop/GOESN-ENG-048_RevD_EPS_HEPAD_13May2011.pdf
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1117/12.254075
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2008.06.014
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50969
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2008SW000452
Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:6922
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Creator Cervantes, Sebastian ORCID logo; Shprits, Yuri Y. ORCID logo; Aseev, Nikita A. ORCID logo; Drozdov, Alexander Y. ORCID logo; Castillo, Angelica; Allison, Hayley J. ORCID logo
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Cervantes, Sebastian; Shprits, Yuri Y.
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB1294 1 318763901
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact Cervantes, Sebastian (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany); Cervantes, Sebastian (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and University of Potsdam)
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Geosciences