Abstract:Abstract. The paper discusses the outer electron belt dynamics, adiabatic and nonadiabatic mechanisms of increases and losses of energetic electrons.Under undisturbed conditions, the outer electron belt gradually empties: in the inner magnetosphere due to electron losses in the atmosphere and in the quasitrapping region due to losses at the magnetopause because drift shells of electrons are not closed there. The latter process does not occur in normal years due to the masking replenishment by freshly accelerat… Show more
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