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Weichao Tu
Associate Professor, West Virginia University
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Radiation Belt Losses: The Long‐Standing Debate Part II
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
05 february 2025
Lauren W. Blum, Frances A. Staples, Alexander Droz...
On 21 June 2022, during the annual Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) workshop, a panel discussion titled “Radiation Belt Loss: The LongR...
Modeling Radiation Belt Electron Dropout During the 31 December 2016 Storm from Different Loss Mechanisms
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, PLASMAS, AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITHIN GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT II ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Jinbei Huang, Xingzhi Lyu, Weichao Tu, Richard Sel...
Magnetopause shadowing (MPS), electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) wave scattering, and field line curvature scattering (FLCS) are suggested as the lo...
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Comparative Data Analysis of the Dropouts Between Radiation Belt Electrons and Ring Current Protons
RING CURRENT PARTICLE SOURCES, LOSSES, AND ITS COUPLING WITH OTHER REGIONS II POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Xingzhi Lyu, Weichao Tu, Malcolm Henderson
Recent observations from Van Allen probes have revealed the fast dropout of both MeV radiation belt (RB) electrons and 100s keV ring current (RC) prot...
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Bounce-Phase Dependent Pitch Angle Diffusion Model with Realistic Atmospheric Backscattering by Using Stochastic Differential Equations
RADIATION BELT DYNAMICS: WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS AND RADIATION BELT MODELING IV POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 10 december 2024
Zhi Gu Li, Weichao Tu, Richard Selesnick
Energetic electron precipitation, driven typically through wave-particle interactions (WPIs) where electrons are scattered into the bounce loss cone (...
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Modeling the Impenetrable Barrier to Ultrarelativistic Radiation Belt Electrons using Data Assimilation
RADIATION BELT DYNAMICS: WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS AND RADIATION BELT MODELING IV POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 10 december 2024
Rushikesh Patil, Xingzhi Lyu, Weichao Tu, Poorya H...
Flux observations from October 10, 2012 to November 14, 2012 of ultrarelativstic outer radiation belt electrons by NASAs Van Allen Probes reveal an ex...
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Inner Magnetospheric Machine Learning Electric Field Model Based on Van Allen Probes Data: Initial Progress Update
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY IN SOLAR WIND AND EARTH INTERACTION III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 10 december 2024
Sam Califf, Hong Zhao, Xiangning Chu, Weichao Tu, ...
The electric field in the inner magnetosphere plays an important role in the dynamics of several coupled plasma populations. The plasmasphere is direc...
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On the Contribution of 3D (Latitude-Dependent) Ultra Low Frequency Waves to the Radial Transport of Off-Equatorial Relativistic Electrons in the Radiation Belts
RADIATION BELT DYNAMICS: WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS AND RADIATION BELT MODELING III ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Theodore E. Sarris, Xinlin Li, Hong Zhao, Weichao ...
Ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves are known to drastically affect the radiation belts by radially diffusing hundreds-keV to few-MeV electrons. This is b...
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Quantifying the spatial and temporal extent of energetic particle precipitation driver by modeling multi-point POES observations
REMOTE SENSING MAGNETOSPHERIC DYNAMICS FROM LOW-ALTITUDE AND GROUND-BASED PLATFORMS I POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Weichao Tu, Zhi Gu Li, Qianli Ma, Richard Selesnic...
Even though in-situ measurements provide invaluable information on the local wave properties and plasma conditions within the magnetosphere, these mea...
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