Missing driver in the Sun-Earth connection from energetic electron precipitation impacts mesospheric ozone

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Andersson, M E ^a   Verronen, P T ^a   Rodger, C J ^b   Clilverd, M A ^c   Seppala A ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; OZONE; PROTON;

CATALYSIS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ELECTRON; ENERGETICS; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAGNITUDE; MESOSPHERE; OZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE SENSOR; TIMESCALE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; IONIZATION; MESOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUN;

EID: 84927716921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6197     Document Type: Article

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