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Radiation belt simulations matched the May 2024 dropout only when compression and outflow coincided
Xingzhi Lyu and colleagues have reconstructed how the outer Van Allen belt lost its most energetic electrons during the strongest geomagnetic storm since 2003, and the reconstruction worked only under a tight timing assumption.
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