Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.7495j&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Dec. 20, 1980, p. 7495-7505.
Physics
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Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Mesosphere, Nitrogen, Stratosphere, Chemical Reactions, Cosmic Rays, Galactic Radiation, Lightning, Meteorites, Nitric Oxide, Nitrous Oxides, Nuclear Explosions, Relativistic Particles
Scientific paper
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), nuclear explosions, lightning, solar proton events (SPEs), relativistic electron precipitation, and meteors are related to the oxidation of nitrous oxide by comparing several sources of odd nitrogen (ON) in the stratosphere and mesosphere. Published O3 and N2O data show that ON produced by the reaction of O(1D) with N2O peaks between 25 and 35 km; the GCRs add approximately the same amount of ON as N2O oxidation at the solar minimum for geographic latitudes over 50 deg. Nuclear explosions in 1961-1962 added 1.1 and 2.2 x 10 to the 34th NO molecules each, and SPEs produced greater amounts of ON above 50 deg than N2O oxidation during 1958 through 1960, and in 1972.
Frederick John E.
Jackman Charles H.
Stolarski Richard S.
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