Odd hydrogen response thresholds for indication of solar proton and electron impact in the mesosphere and stratosphere

Häkkilä, Tuomas; Verronen, Pekka T.; Millán, Luis; Szeląg, Monika E.; Kalakoski, Niilo; Kero, Antti

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1299-2020

Articles | Volume 38, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1299-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1299-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 38, issue 6

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22 Dec 2020

Regular paper |

| 22 Dec 2020

Odd hydrogen response thresholds for indication of solar proton and electron impact in the mesosphere and stratosphere

Tuomas Häkkilä, Pekka T. Verronen, Luis Millán, Monika E. Szeląg, Niilo Kalakoski, and Antti Kero

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RC1: 'Anonymous review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Jun 2020
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- AC2: 'Response to the comments of Referee #2', Tuomas Häkkilä, 18 Sep 2020

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (21 Sep 2020) by Petr Pisoft

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ED: Publish as is (03 Nov 2020) by Petr Pisoft

Short summary

The atmospheric impacts of energetic particle precipitation (EPP) can be useful in understanding the uncertainties of measuring the precipitation. Hence, information on how strong of an EPP flux has observable atmospheric impacts is needed. In this study, we find such threshold flux values using odd hydrogen concentrations from both satellite observations and model simulations. We consider the effects of solar proton events and radiation belt electron precipitation in the middle atmosphere.