Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2022

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P (Space and Planetary Sciences ) » P-EM Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment

[P-EM09] Space Weather and Space Climate

Mon. May 23, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 302 (International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Ryuho Kataoka(National Institute of Polar Research), convener:Antti A Pulkkinen(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Kaori Sakaguchi(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), convener:Daikou Shiota(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)), Chairperson:Antti A Pulkkinen(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Daikou Shiota(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT))

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

[PEM09-09] On the spatial evolution of energetic electrons in the upper atmosphere over different phases of two solar cycles

*ALEXEI DMITRIEV1,2, Alla V. Suvorova2, Sayantan Ghosh1, Gennady V. Golubkov3,4, Maxim G. Golubkov3 (1.Department of Space Sciences and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan, 2.Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia, 3.Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334 Moscow, Russia, 4.National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia)

Keywords:solar cycle, Earth's radiation belt, ionosphere

The Earth’s radiation belt (ERB) is a significant hurdle to the safe operation of space vehicles owing to the precipitation of energetic particles, leading to ionisation in the ionosphere and the upper atmosphere. We present results from a long term study, covering two solar cycles, the dynamics of electron fluxes at altitudes of 850kms. We show an equatorward shift of the electron precipitation from the outer ERB in the Siberian region. In the South Atlantic Anomaly, we demonstrate a substantial decrease in the area and fluxes from the 23rd to the 24th solar cycle. Finally, we elucidate that such dynamics can be explained by the variations in the geomagnetic activity and the continual and noticeable change in the Earth’s magnetic field during the 24th solar cycle.
PACS: 94.30.Xy; 94.05.Sd; 94.30.Hn