Other studies have emphasized a possible role in dolomitization for dense brackish (salty) fluids formed when seawater and meteoric waters (those precipitated from the atmosphere as rain or snow) are produced along coastal zones.
If it does so it is, to use the jargon, "precipitated" into the atmosphere where it gives up its energy and never returns to space.So the way to sweep the Van Allen belts clean of their troublesome electrons and protons is to bombard the particles with radio waves at a frequency that speeds them up as they head towards the poles.
e Temporal variation of counts of 1 MeV electrons precipitated into the atmosphere (100 km altitude).
These electrons are precipitated into the atmosphere (100 km altitudes assumed) by whistler chorus elements with wave magnetic amplitude of 200 pT propagating parallel to the background magnetic field away from the equator.
A large portion of these energetic electrons, which have complex motions, were lost, precipitated into the upper atmosphere, and immersed LEO satellites in electron fluxes.
The source of the mercury was found to be waste incinerators and fossil fuel power plants that expelled the element in the atmosphere, which precipitated with rain, or in the dry season, dust.
Because warmer water tends to evaporate more, some researchers proposed that the extra moisture in the atmosphere could have precipitated as snow, if the air was cold enough.
We present Monte Carlo simulations of the energy deposited by energetic electrons from the outer Van Allen belt precipitating into the atmosphere below 100 km.
Typically, the electron population of the outer belt increases by several orders of magnitude during geomagnetic activity associated with the passage of a solar sector boundary; then, over the course of the following week or so, this enormous quantity of trapped electrons precipitates into the atmosphere.
The use of the POES observations also has problems as highlighted by Rodger et al. ([2010]): During geomagnetically disturbed times, i.e. when electron precipitation is likely to occur, up to 55% of the POES bounce loss cone electron flux (electrons precipitating into the atmosphere) observations are contaminated by energetic protons.
That pattern suggests the difference can be explained by the steady increase in airborne mercury pollution, which precipitates from the atmosphere to Earth's surface.
