Particle precipitaion into the thermosphere (invited review)

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Jun 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986thdy.work..361r&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Thermosphere Dynamics Workshop, Volume 2 p 361-367 (SEE N86-29301 20-42)

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Atmospheric Circulation, Auroral Ionization, Particle Precipitation, Thermosphere, Electron Energy, Magnetic Flux, Neutral Sheets, Pair Production

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A review of research on particle precipitation into the thermosphere is presented. Particle precipitation plays an important role in thermospheric dynamics, often being both the most important ionization source and the most important heat source, comparable to Joule heating rates in the auroral zones and typically exceeding solar ultraviolet as an ionization mechanism in the nightside auroral zones and winter polar caps. Rees (1963) has shown that, roughly speaking, one electron-ion pair is produced by each 35 eV of incident electron energy flux; thus, over half of the incident electron energy flux goes into heating rather than into ionization. Precipitating ions also can produce ionization, also requiring roughly 35 eV per pair; however, since ion energy fluxes are typically much weaker than electron fluxes, they have often been neglected. The particle precipitation into the thermosphere is both an important ionization source and an important heat source; since the globally integrated value can vary over more than a factor of ten, and the instantaneous local rate can vary over nearly three orders of magnitude global, maps of precipitation rates are extremely important for predicting thermospheric weather.

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