VLF Waves and Energetic Electron Precipitation Observed by the ABOVE2 Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Abstract
ABOVE2 is a stratospheric balloon mission that flew over Western Canada in August 2016. With a Very Low Frequency (VLF) waves instrument and an X-ray spectrometer on each of two science flights, the mission was designed to investigate energetic electron precipitation and associated VLF wave activity near L=4. The flight path over Western Canada took us underneath the Van Allen Probes orbits and over top of multiple ground-based instrument arrays. The August 2016 timing allowed us to coordinate our flights with near-simultaneous BARREL flights from Sweden. We discuss the ABOVE2 results in the context of this multi-mission array of instruments. We focus on wave-particle interactions as drivers of the energetic precipitation seen by ABOVE2.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AGUFMSM33D..08C
- Keywords:
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- 6939 Magnetospheric physics;
- RADIO SCIENCEDE: 7845 Particle acceleration;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICSDE: 7867 Wave/particle interactions;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICSDE: 7959 Models;
- SPACE WEATHER