Data assimilation technique applied to electron Earth radiation belts

7 Mar 2017, 16:25
20m
Newton2 (ESA/ESTEC)

Newton2

ESA/ESTEC

Keplerlaan 1 2201 AZ Noordwijk The Netherlands

Speaker

Dr Sebastien Bourdarie (ONERA)

Description

An Ensemble Kalman filter combined with the Salammbô 3D tool has been used to produce a re-analysis data base of the electron radiation belt from September 2012 to end of 2015. RBSP-A&B/MagEis data, GOES-13/MagEd and GOES-13/SEM data were ingested by the system. So far only omni-directional fluxes have been considered in this study. The time resolution of the re-analysis data base is 10 minutes and covers electron energies above 300 keV. The results obtained are compared/validated against INTEGRAL/SREM data. Performance of the data assimilation tool will be discussed as well as ways of improvement for the future.

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