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Pitch angle diffusion coefficients used to calculate electron precipitation from the Earth's radiation belts
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01362

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Abstract:
This dataset contains two NetCDF files: Chorus_daa.nc (labelled from here as a) which contains the chorus pitch angle diffusion coefficients presented in Figure 1 of Reidy et al (2020) and Combined_daa.nc (labelled from here as b) containing the combined pitch angle diffusion coefficients which can be used to do the analysis presented in the remainder of the Reidy et al (2020) paper.

These data sets include:

a. A matrix containing the pitch angle diffusion coefficients for chorus waves at the angle of the loss cone for energies of 30, 100 and 300 keV between L*= 2-7.5, a full range of MLT sectors and for low (1 < Kp < 2), moderate (2 < Kp < 3) and high (4 < Kp < 7) geomagnetic activity levels. These were calculated from an average wave model presented in Meredith et al (2020) to capture the effect of wave-particle interactions in the BAS Radiation Belt Model (BAS-RBM). Also the arrays containing the energy, L*, MLT and Kp dependence are also included.

b, A matrix containing the combined pitch angle diffusion coefficients for chorus, hiss and EMIC waves and coulomb collisions between alpha = 0.5deg -9.45deg, Energy = 28.18-2511.89 keV , L* = 4.25-7.25, MLT = 0-24 and 6 different activity levels. The arrays containing the pitch angle, energy, L*, MLT and Kp dependence are also included.

Funding was provided by NERC Highlight Topic Grant NE/P01738X/1 and NERC National Capability grants NE/R016038/1 and NE/R016445/1

Keywords:
Pitch angle diffusion coefficients, radiation belt model, wave-particle interactions

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Reidy, J. (2020). Pitch angle diffusion coefficients used to calculate electron precipitation from the Earth's radiation belts (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/1ccb7d38-48d8-4206-be34-b218fa763b5a

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