Fourth annual CHARM meeting

Kinetic models for the solar wind and the inner magnetosphere

5 Jun 2015, 10:10

25m

RMI meeting room (IASB-BIRA (RMI Royal Meteorologic Institute meeting room))

Talk Session 4

Speaker

Viviane Pierrard (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)

Description

Recent progress of kinetic models for space plasmas will be reported. Concerning the solar wind, exospheric model based on kappa distributions for the electrons are coupled with coronal conditions deduced from spacecraft observations and from MHD models. Dynamical simulations are also developed for particles trapped in the inner magnetosphere and the results are compared with satellite observations and especially with the Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) flux measurements.