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  • This dataset contains two NetCDF files: Chorus_daa.nc (labelled from here as a) which contains the chorus pitch angle diffusion coefficients presented in Figure 1 of Reidy et al (2020) and Combined_daa.nc (labelled from here as b) containing the combined pitch angle diffusion coefficients which can be used to do the analysis presented in the remainder of the Reidy et al (2020) paper. These data sets include: a. A matrix containing the pitch angle diffusion coefficients for chorus waves at the angle of the loss cone for energies of 30, 100 and 300 keV between L*= 2-7.5, a full range of MLT sectors and for low (1 < Kp < 2), moderate (2 < Kp < 3) and high (4 < Kp < 7) geomagnetic activity levels. These were calculated from an average wave model presented in Meredith et al (2020) to capture the effect of wave-particle interactions in the BAS Radiation Belt Model (BAS-RBM). Also the arrays containing the energy, L*, MLT and Kp dependence are also included. b, A matrix containing the combined pitch angle diffusion coefficients for chorus, hiss and EMIC waves and coulomb collisions between alpha = 0.5deg -9.45deg, Energy = 28.18-2511.89 keV , L* = 4.25-7.25, MLT = 0-24 and 6 different activity levels. The arrays containing the pitch angle, energy, L*, MLT and Kp dependence are also included. Funding was provided by NERC Highlight Topic Grant NE/P01738X/1 and NERC National Capability grants NE/R016038/1 and NE/R016445/1

  • These data include pitch angle diffusion coefficients for chorus waves which have been evaluated at the angle of loss cone calculated in multiple ways. We have predominately concentrated on the dawnside between 00-12 MLT (Magnetic Local Time), for 5<L*<5.5 as this is where we have Van Allen Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) measurements and scattering of electrons due to chorus waves is known to occur. We have used 7 years of RBSP wave and cold plasma measurements between November 2012 to October 2019 to calculate these diffusion coefficients. For the first two sets of data we provide chorus diffusion coefficients with fpe/fce times by 2 and divided by 2 respectively. The next four data sets have been calculated from RBSP data using two different methods, first using average values, as has previously been done (e.g. Horne et al [2013]) and used above, and secondly by using co-located measurements of the wave spectra and fpe/fce to calculate pitch angle diffusion coefficients (Daa), where fpe is the plasma frequency and fce is the proton gyro frequency, and then averaging, similar to that presented in Ross et al [2021] for Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) waves and Wong et al [2022] for magnetosonic waves. Both methods use a modified version of the PADIE code Glauert et al [2005] which allows an arbitrary wave power spectral density input rather than Gaussian inputs. The RBSP chorus diffusion coefficient matrices are computed by combining RBSP data with a profile for how chorus wave power changes with latitude, derived from the VLF database in Meredith et al [2018]. The magnetic latitude profile enables us to map RBSP measurements to magnetic latitudes between 0<MLAT<60 and therefore include the effects of high latitude chorus in our results. The RBSP diffusion matrices also use a new chorus wave normal angle model derived from RBSP data composed of different wave normal angle distributions for different spatial location and fpe/fce bins. Lastly we include two data sets of RBSP-chorus diffusion coefficients combined with diffusion coefficients due to collisions with atmospheric particles to calculate the total diffusion of electrons near the loss cone between 00-12 MLT, for 5<L*<5.5. We have produced these different sets of chorus (and combined chorus and collision) diffusion coefficients to test our methods of calculating electron precipitation and find what variables these calculations are sensitive to. Funding was provided by NERC Highlight Topic Grant NE/P01738X/1 (Rad-Sat) and NERC National Capability grants NE/R016038/1 and NE/R016445/1