Atmospheric and ionospheric impacts of energetic particle precipitation (EPP) from Earth’s ring current and radiation belts
Whitepaper #397 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: planetary magnetospheres; system science.
by Drew L. Turner, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Daniel Baker, Grant Berland, J. Bernard Blake, Lauren Blum, Jacob Bortnik, Katrina Bossert, Aaron Breneman, George Clark, Seth Claudepierre, Ian J. Cohen, Sasha Drozdov, Scot Elkington, Xiaohua Fang, Joe Fennell, Bruce Fritz, Ashley Greeley, Brian Harding, Lynn Harvey, Richard Horne, Mary Hudson, Adam Kellerman, Peter Kollmann, Wen Li, Xinlin Li, Bob Marshall, Yoshi Miyoshi, Cora Randall, Geoff Reeves, Jean-Francois Ripoll, Craig Rodger, Andrei Runov, Theodore Sarris, Mykhaylo Shumko, Kareem Sorathia, Ethan Tsai, Weichao Tu, Sasha Ukhorskiy, Maria Usanova, Pekka Verronen, Colin Wilkins, and Xiao-Jia Zhang
Published onJul 31, 2023
Atmospheric and ionospheric impacts of energetic particle precipitation (EPP) from Earth’s ring current and radiation belts
Explore and establish the consequences of and causal role between energetic particle precipitation (i.e., ring current, radiation belt, and solar energetic particles) and: i) transient events of mesospheric NOx and HOx production, ozone depletion, and stratospheric and tropospheric warming and ii) localized, transient structures and sporadic intensification of the D- and E-region ionospheres.
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