H2  Physics of the Radiation Belts

Thursday, January 10  13:20-16:00  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Michael Starks, Mark Golkowski

13:20  H2-1  CHARACTERISTICS OF QUASI FIELD-ALIGNED AND VERY OBLIQUE WHISTLER-MODE EMISSIONS OBSERVED ON THEMIS AND RBSP

Wen Li*1, Richard M. Thorne1, Jacob Bortnik1, Lunjin Chen1, Vassilis Angelopoulos2

1Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics/ Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA


13:40  H2-2  RADIATION BELT ELECTRON ENHANCEMENTS: HISTORY AND NEW RESULTS FROM RBSP

Daniel N. Baker*1, Shrikanth G. Kanekal2, Xinlin Li1, Scot R. Elkington1, Harlen Spence3

1LASP, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
3Ctr for Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH


14:00  H2-3  MODELING THE WAVE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION OF CHORUS WAVES

Lunjin Chen*, Richard Thorne, Wen Li, Jacob Bortnik

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA


14:20  H2-4  SCATTERING OF ENERGETIC RADIATION BELT ELECTRONS BY SIMULATED MAGNETOSPHERIC CHORUS WAVES

Vijay Harid*1, Mark Golkowski2, Maria Spasojevic1, Timothy Bell1, Umran S. Inan1

1EE, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2EE, University of Colorado, Denver, Denver, CO


14:40  H2-5  ANALYSIS OF WHISTLER MODE SIDEBANDS OF MAGNETOSPHERIC TRIGGERED EMISSIONS

Mark Golkowski*1, Vijay Harid2

1Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2Stanford University, Stanford, CA


15:20  H2-6  ANALYTICAL TREATMENT OF NONLINEAR ELECTRON BEHAVIOR IN RESONANCE WITH LARGE AMPLITUDE WHISTLER WAVES

Jay M. Albert*

Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM


15:40  H2-7  INCLUDING VLF WAVE INTERACTIONS IN A COMPREHENSIVE MHD/PARTICLE SIMULATION OF THE RADIATION BELTS

Scot R. Elkington*1, Anthouny A. Chan2

1Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas