A zoo of electromagnetic waves interact with energetic particles in the Earth's radiation belts to cause local acceleration and loss. The many wave types that are considered to be responsible for these local energy and pitch-angle dynamics include: plasmaspheric hiss, chorus, transmitters, lightning-generated whistlers, electromagnetic ion cyclotron, magnetosonic and others. Quasilinear diffusion modelling is often successful at capturing particle dynamics, but the community is also becoming increasingly aware of the importance of nonlinear interactions and their implications for dynamics and modelling. Therefore the synthesis of quasilinear and nonlinear modelling approaches for local acceleration and loss is one of the main challenges in the modelling of the Earth's radiation belts. In this session we invite submissions that focus on one or more of: satellite and ground based data; numerical modelling and simulation; and theoretical developments, that specifically consider quasilinear or nonlinear wave and particle dynamics in the Earth's radiation belts.

• EGU: European Geosciences Union -
• JpGU: Japan Geoscience Union -