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ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES LIKE THIS HAVE OFFERED ONLY LIMITED GLIMPSES INTO THE CHORUS-MICROBURST CAUSE AND EFFECT CHAIN. A SUFFICIENTLY LARGE DATASET OF HIGH TIME RESOLUTION CONJUNCTION OBSERVATIONS OF BOTH CHORUS AND MICROBURSTS NOW EXISTS TO STATISTICALLY ANALYZE TIMEAND SPATIALLY-RESOLVED DETAILS OF MICROBURST CREATION IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN ITS IMPORTANCE FOR RADIATION BELT PHYSICS. FOR MICROBURST OBSERVATIONS THIS DATASET INCLUDES MULTI-YEAR OBSERVATIONS FROM FIREBIRD AC6 AS WELL AS MULTIPLE BARREL BALLOON CAMPAIGNS. FOR CHORUS THIS DATASET INCLUDES RBSP THEMIS ETC. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THESE DATASETS WILL ALLOW US TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING SCIENCE GOALS: 1) DETERMINE THE L AND MLT SIZE CONSTRAINTS AND DURATION OF MICROBURST PRODUCING REGIONS OF CHORUS. 2) CALCULATE THE AVERAGE MICROBURST FLUX AND EXTRAPOLATE TO THE LARGER OBSERVED SOURCE REGION FROM (1) TO DETERMINE AS A FUNCTION OF ENERGY WHETHER OR NOT MICROBURSTS CONSISTENTLY REPRESENT AN IMPORTANT LOSS OF RADIATION BELT ELECTRONS IN STORM RECOVERY. 3) DETERMINE WHAT CHORUS WAVE PROPERTIES ARE CORRELATED WITH OBSERVED MICROBURST PROPERTIES INCLUDING ENERGY SPECTRUM. 4) USE MODELS AND THEORY TO DETERMINE DETAILS OF THE SCATTERING INTERACTION INCLUDING LATITUDE OF SCATTERING AND CYCLOTRON HARMONIC INVOLVED AND WHETHER THE OBSERVED MICROBURST FLUX CAN BE EXPLAINED WITH QUASI-LINEAR SCATTERING THEORY OR REQUIRES NONLINEAR INTERACTION.

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