ONERA's progress in modelling and specifying the Earth's radiation belts dynamics
Abstract
In the recent years, ONERA has been involved in two complementary FP7 projects: SPACECAST and MAARBLE projects. Thanks to these European grants, and to the continuous support of CNES (CRATERRE project), many improvements have been conducted in: 1) modelling the processes driving the radiation belts (boundary conditions, radial diffusion, wave-particle interactions, drop-outs modelling), 2) data analysis and, 3) data assimilation. This talk aims at presenting these improvements as well as the remaining weaknesses with comparison with recent data sets such as the Van Allen Probes observations. We will highlight what are the upcoming challenges according to us and what are the key directions to continue exploring in order to improve current specification models. SPACECAST and MAARBLE have received fundings from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-SPACE-.2010-1, SP1 Cooperation, Collaborative project) under grant agreement n262468 and n284520 respectively. This paper reflects only the authors’ views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. The CRATERRE project has received fundings from CNES.
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40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014cosp...40E1934M