Catastrophic ozone loss during passage of the Solar system through an interstellar cloud

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Pavlov, Alexander A ^a   Pavlov, Anatoli K ^b   Mills, Michael J ^a   Ostryakov, Valery M ^c   Vasilyev, Gennadiy I ^b   Toon, Owen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COSMIC RAYS; EARTH (PLANET); GALAXIES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORBITS; OZONE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ACR FLUX; INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; OZONE COLUMN;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COSMIC RAY; OZONE;

EID: 16344378125     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021601     Document Type: Article

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