The Solar Geophysical Events of November 1960

Enhancement of N2O during the October–November 2003 solar proton events

B. Funke1, M. Garcı́a-Comas1, M. López-Puertas1, N. Glatthor2, G. P. Stiller2, T. von Clarmann2, K. Semeniuk3, and J. C. McConnell3 1Instituto de Astrofı́sica de Andalucı́a, CSIC, Granada, Spain 2Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe und Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe, Germany 3Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, On...

Mesospheric dynamical changes induced by the solar proton events in October–November 2003

[1] The Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Electrodynamic General Circulation Model (TIME-GCM) was used to study the atmospheric dynamical influence of the solar protons that occurred in Oct–Nov 2003, the fourth largest period of solar proton events (SPEs) measured in the past 40 years. The highly energetic solar protons produced odd hydrogen (HOx) and odd nitrogen (NOy). Significant short-live...

Voyager 2 observations related to the October – November 2003 solar events

[1] A transient flow system observed at 1 AU from October 24–November 7, 2003 (consisting of several shocks, ejecta and possibly other flows) moved away from the Sun for 180 days to 73 AU, where Voyager 2 (V2) observed a large Merged Interaction Region (MIR) associated with a fast (560 km/s) stream that followed a forward shock and moved past V2 for 1.5 solar rotations. The MIR and stream were ...

Solar eruptive events

Small Probability Events for Two-layer Geophysical Flows under Uncertainty

The stochastics two-layer quasi-geostrophic flowmodel is an intermediate system between the single-layer two dimensional barotropic flow model and the continuously stratified three dimensional baroclinic flow model. This model is widely used to investigate basic mechanisms in geophysical flows, such as baroclinic effects, the Gulf Stream and subtropical gyres. A large deviation principle for th...