Frank Toffoletto

TL;DR: The Rice Convection Model (RCM) as mentioned in this paper is an established physical model of the inner and middle magnetosphere that includes coupling to the ionosphere, which uses a many-fluid formalism to describe adiabatically drifting isotropic particle distributions in a self-consistently computed electric field and specified magnetic field.

TL;DR: In this article, the response to the March 31, 2001, storm has been modeled using the Rice Convection Model (RCM) and the Coupled Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Plasmasphere-Electrodynamics (CTIPe) model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a tutorial review deals with large-scale convection electric fields in Earth's inner magnetosphere and the particle populations that interact strongly with those fields, specifically the inner plasma sheet, ring current, and plasmasphere.

TL;DR: The role of plasma sheet bubbles in the ion flux variations at geosynchronous orbit during substorm injections by using the Rice Convection Model with an equilibrated magnetic field model (RCM-E) was investigated in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, three radiation belt flux dropout events seen by the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope soon after launch of the Van Allen Probes in 2012 (Baker et al., 2013a) have been simulated using the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry MHD code coupled to the Rice Convection Model, driven by measured upstream solar wind parameters.