Earth's Van Allen radiation belts: From discovery to the Van Allen Probes era

W Li, MK Hudson - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Discovery of the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts by instruments flown on Explorer 1 in 1958
was the first major discovery of the Space Age. The observation of distinct inner and outer …

Untangling the solar wind and magnetospheric drivers of the radiation belt electrons

S Wing, JR Johnson, DL Turner… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many solar wind parameters correlate with one another, which complicates the causal‐effect
studies of solar wind driving of the magnetosphere. Conditional mutual information (CMI) is …

Impact of space weather on the satellite industry

JC Green, J Likar, Y Shprits - Space Weather, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes space weather impacts to the satellite infrastructure as perceived by
satellite industry stakeholders. The information was gathered through in‐person and remote …

[HTML][HTML] A data assimilation-based forecast model of outer radiation belt electron fluxes

Y Lei, X Cao, BB Ni, S Fu, TR Luo… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - pubs-en.cstam.org.cn
Because radiation belt electrons can pose a potential threat to the safety of satellites orbiting
in space, it is of great importance to develop a reliable model that can predict the highly …

[HTML][HTML] Overview, Progress and Next Steps for Our Understanding of the Near-Earth Space Radiation and Plasma Environment: Science and Applications

Y Zheng, I Jun, W Tu, Y Shprits, W Kim… - Advances in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Near-Earth Space Radiation and Plasma Environment falls within the realm of
G3 Cluster (G3 refers to 'Near-Earth Radiation and Plasma Environment'of the 'Coupled …

Identifying radiation belt electron source and loss processes by assimilating spacecraft data in a three‐dimensional diffusion model

S Cervantes, YY Shprits, NA Aseev… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Dependence of EMIC wave parameters during quiet, geomagnetic storm, and geomagnetic storm phase times

AJ Halford, BJ Fraser, SK Morley… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
As electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves may play an important role in radiation belt
dynamics, there has been a push to better include them into global simulations. How to best …

The satellite risk prediction and radiation forecast system (SaRIF)

RB Horne, SA Glauert, P Kirsch, D Heynderickx… - Space …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With new satellite constellations being launched into low Earth orbit, the growing use of
medium Earth orbit for radio‐navigation and timing signals, slot region orbits for …

Global validation of data-assimilative electron ring current nowcast for space weather applications

B Haas, YY Shprits, M Wutzig, M Szabó-Roberts… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The hazardous plasma environment surrounding Earth poses risks to satellites due to
internal charging and surface charging effects. Accurate predictions of these risks are crucial …

A combined neural network‐and physics‐based approach for modeling plasmasphere dynamics

IS Zhelavskaya, NA Aseev… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, feedforward neural networks (NNs) have been successfully applied to
reconstruct global plasmasphere dynamics in the equatorial plane. These neural network …