Cosmic sources of the Earth's atmosphere ionization (review)

• Date: 2017
• Main Authors: Raychenko, L.V., Melnik, G.V.
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: S. Subbotin Institute of Geophysics of the NAS of Ukraine 2017
• Subjects: galactic cosmic rays; solar cosmic rays; ionization of atmosphere
• Online Access: https://journals.uran.ua/geofizicheskiy/article/view/104031
• Journal Title: Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal

 Characteristics of the Earth's upper atmosphere vary constantly under the action of electromagnetic emission of the sun, solar wind, streams of galactic and solar cosmic rays as well as of precipitation of captured magnetosphere electrons. Depending on their energies charged particles and sola...