Terrance Onsager

TL;DR: The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)-Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) suite contains an innovative complement of particle instruments to ensure the highest quality measurements ever made in the inner magnetosphere and radiation belts as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: There is a growing appreciation that the environmental conditions that we call space weather impact the technological infrastructure that powers the coupled economies around the world as discussed by the authors, and there is also a growing awareness that space weather impacts the technologies that are used in the world.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how relativistic electrons are lost from the Earth's magnetosphere in order to better understand the dynamic variability of the radiation belts and identify 52 events where the >2 MeV electron flux at geostationary orbit decreases rapidly and use a superposed epoch analysis of multispacecraft data to characterize the accompanying solar wind and geomagnetic conditions and examine the relevance of potential loss mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the location of magnetopause reconnection during these northward interplanetary magnetic field conditions was established as being at high latitudes, poleward of the cusp, and further reinforced the general interpretation of electron and ion phase space density signatures as indicators of magnetic reconnection and boundary layer formation.

TL;DR: In this article, coordinated measurements from the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) constellation of spacecraft are presented to show the causes and effects of recurrent geomagnetic activity during recent solar minimum conditions.