TRAPPED PARTICLES. “In the inner magnetosphere, particles can become trapped on closed orbits drifting around the Earth guided by the quasi-dipolar intrinsic field. The ring current located roughly at 4–6 RE radial distance encircles the Earth with highly variable intensity also modulated by the level of geomagnetic activity.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022