EGU21-6074
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6074
EGU General Assembly 2021
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The nature of the variability of wave particle interactions in the inner magnetosphere and consequences for diffusion models

Clare Watt1, Hayley Allison2, Rhys Thompson3, Sarah Bentley1, Jonathan Rae1, Nigel Meredith4, Sarah Glauert4, RIchard Horne4, Shuai Zhang5, Alex Degeling5, Anmin Tian5, and Quanqi Shi5
Clare Watt et al.
  • 1Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK (clare.watt@northumbria.ac.uk)
  • 2GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany
  • 3Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading, UK
  • 4British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
  • 5Shandong University, China

It is important to understand the variability of plasma processes across many different timescales in order to successfully model plasma in the inner magnetosphere. In this presentation, we focus on the interplay between the variability cold plasmaspheric plasma, whistler-mode wave activity, and the efficacy of wave-particle interactions in the inner magnetosphere. We use in-situ observations to quantify the amount and timescales of variability in pitch-angle diffusion due to plasmaspheric hiss in Earth’s inner magnetosphere, and suggest reasons for the variability. We then use a stochastic parameterization scheme to investigate the consequences of that variability in a numerical diffusion model. The results from the stochastic parameterization are contrasted with the standard approach of constructing averaged diffusion coefficients. We demonstrate that even when the average diffusion rates are the same, different timescales of variability in the wave-particle interactions lead to different end results in numerical diffusion models. We discuss the implications of our results for the modelling of wave-particle interactions in magnetospheres, and suggest quantifications that are vital for accurate modelling.

How to cite: Watt, C., Allison, H., Thompson, R., Bentley, S., Rae, J., Meredith, N., Glauert, S., Horne, R., Zhang, S., Degeling, A., Tian, A., and Shi, Q.: The nature of the variability of wave particle interactions in the inner magnetosphere and consequences for diffusion models, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-6074, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6074, 2021.

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