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Wiley, Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 7(119), p. 5685-5699

DOI: 10.1002/2014ja019935

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A novel technique to construct the global distribution of whistler mode chorus wave intensity using low-altitude POES electron data: A novel technique for global wave model

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Abstract

Although magnetospheric chorus plays a significant role in the acceleration and loss of radiation belt electrons, its global evolution during any specific time period cannot be directly obtained by spacecraft measurements. Using the low-altitude NOAA POES electron data, we develop a novel physics-based methodology to infer the chorus wave intensity and construct its global distribution with a time resolution of less than an hour. We describe in detail how to apply the technique to satellite data by performing two representative analyses, i.e., (i) for one specific time point to visualize the estimation procedure and (ii) for a particular time period to validate the method and construct an illustrative global chorus wave model. We demonstrate that the spatio-temporal evolution of chorus intensity in the equatorial magnetosphere can be reasonably estimated from electron flux measurements made by multiple low-altitude POES satellites with a broad coverage of L-shell and MLT. Such a data-based, dynamic model of chorus waves can provide near real-time wave information on a global scale for any time period where POES electron data are available. A combination of the chorus wave spatio-temporal distribution acquired using this methodology and the direct space-borne wave measurements can be used to evaluate the quantitative scattering caused by resonant wave-particle interactions and thus model radiation belt electron variability.