Citation: | Yuan, C. J., Zuo, Y. Q., Roussos, E., Wei, Y., Hao, Y. X., Sun, Y. X. and Krupp, N. (2021). Large-scale episodic enhancements of relativistic electron intensities in Jupiter's radiation belt. Earth Planet. Phys., 5(4), 314–326. doi: 10.26464/epp2021037 |
Previous studies indicate that, in the Jovian magnetosphere, the long-term trend of the radial profile of relativistic electron intensities is primarily shaped by slow radial diffusion. However, measurements by the Galileo spacecraft reveal the existence of transient increases in MeV electron intensities well above the ambient distribution. It is unclear how common such transient enhancements are, and to which dynamic processes in Jupiter's magnetosphere their occurrence is linked. We investigate the radial distributions of