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UP: Fachverband Umweltphysik

UP 4: Postersession Atmosphäre

UP 4.26: Poster

Mittwoch, 25. März 2015, 10:45–19:45, G/Foyer

The impact of energetic particle precipitation to middle atmosphere dynamic — •Khalil Karami, Miriam Sinnhuber, Stefan Versick, and Peter Braesicke — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Energetic particles including protons, electrons and heavier ions, enter the Earth*s atmosphere over polar region of both hemispheres, where the geomagnetic lines are considered to be open and connected to the interplanetary medium. Such particle precipitations can greatly disturb the chemical composition of the upper and middle atmosphere.The most important are changes to the budget of atmospheric nitric oxides, NOy, and to atmospheric reactive hydrogen oxides, HOx, which both contribute to ozone loss in the stratosphere and mesosphere. The chemistry-climate general circulation model ECHAM5/MESSy is used to investigate the impact of changed ozone concentration due to energetic particles precipitation on temperatures and wind fields. The simulated anomalies of both zonal mean temperature and zonal wind suggest that these changes are very unlikely to be caused in situ by ozone depletion and indirect dynamical condition is important. Different dynamical analysis (e.g., frequency of sudden stratospheric warming, dates of stratospheric final warming, divergence of Eliassen-Palm flux and refractive index of planetary waves) are performed to investigate the impact of ozone anomaly originated from high energetic particle precipitation on middle atmospheric temperature and circulation.