Enhancement of N 2 O during the October?November 2003 solar proton events

International audience In this paper we present evidence of enhanced N 2 O concentrations in the upper stratosphere/lower mesosphere polar regions after the solar proton events that occurred during October?November 2003. The observations were performed by the MIPAS instrument on the Envisat satellit...

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Main Authors: Funke, B., García-Comas, M., López-Puertas, M., Glatthor, N., Stiller, G. P., Von Clarmann, T., Semeniuk, K., Mcconnell, J. C.
Other Authors: Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid (CSIC), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe und Universität Karlsruhe, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering York University - Toronto (ESSE), York University Toronto
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2008
Subjects:
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
polar night
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00303387
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00303387/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00303387/file/acpd-8-4669-2008.pdf
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Summary:International audience In this paper we present evidence of enhanced N 2 O concentrations in the upper stratosphere/lower mesosphere polar regions after the solar proton events that occurred during October?November 2003. The observations were performed by the MIPAS instrument on the Envisat satellite. Simulations performed using the Canadian Middle Atmospheric Model (CMAM) show that such enhancements are most likely produced by the reaction of N( 4 S) with NO 2 , both of which species are largely enhanced just after the solar proton events in the winter polar night.

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