The effects of uncertainties in the two-body ion-ion recombination coefficient upon computed ion distributions in the stratosphere and mesosphere
Abstract
A version of the AIRCHEM code (BENCHMARK-76) has been used to study the sensitivity of the daytime ionic populations to decade changes in selected values of the two-body ion-ion recombination rate coefficient over the altitude range 30-80 km, inclusive. At one extreme, computed ionic populations change by as much as a factor of two in isolated cases. At the other extreme much smaller changes are computed.
- Publication:
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Final Report Ballistic Research Labs
- Pub Date:
- March 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977brla.reptQ....H
- Keywords:
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- Ion Distribution;
- Ion Recombination;
- Upper Atmosphere;
- Atmospheric Chemistry;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Recombination Reactions;
- Geophysics