Abstract
Non-adiabatic behaviour induced by the chorus-electron interaction is an important contributor to the radiation belt dynamics, and largely relies on wave frequency distribution. During the geomagnetic storm on August 2, 2016, upper-band, lower-band and extremely low frequency (ELF) chorus waves were simultaneously observed within one orbit period of the Van Allen Probe B. Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the electron evolution by the observed chorus with different frequencies. The results show that various frequency chorus waves have different effects on electron dynamics. For chorus in the range f≈0.3fce−0.7fce, energy diffusion is the dominant process in electron evolutions. For chorus in the range 0.1fce⩽f⩽0.25fce, the pitch angle diffusion tends to be comparable to energy diffusion for Ek>0.5 MeV. For ELF chorus below 0.1fce, the pitch angle diffusion rate is much above the energy diffusion rate, leading to potential scattering losses.
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