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Reply to comment by K.A. Duderstadt et al. on "Atmospheric ionization by high-fluence, hard spectrum solar proton events and their probable appearance in the ice core archive"
Claude M. Laird, Adrian L. Melott, Brian C. Thomas +2
Duderstadt et al. [2016b] comment that the Melott et al. [2016] study of nitrate formation by solar proton events (SPEs) and comparison with the ice core archive is "fundamentally…
Atmospheric ionization by high-fluence, hard spectrum solar proton events and their probable appearance in the ice core archive
Adrian L. Melott, Brian C. Thomas, Claude M. Laird +2
Solar energetic particles ionize the atmosphere, leading to production of nitrogen oxides. It has been suggested that some such events are visible as layers of nitrate in ice cores…
Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events
D. F. Smart, M. A. Shea, A. L. Melott +1
Ice cores are archives of climate change and possibly large solar proton events (SPEs). Wolff et al. (2012) used a single event, a nitrate peak in the GISP2-H core, which McCracken…
Has the Earth been exposed to numerous supernovae within the last 300 kyr?
A. L. Melott, I. G. Usoskin, G. A Kovaltsov +1
Firestone (2014) asserted evidence for numerous (23) nearby (d<300 pc) supernovae within the Middle and Late Pleistocene. If true, this would have strong implications for the irrad…
Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Earth: Exploration of Atmospheric, Biological, Climatic and Biogeochemical Effects
Brian C. Thomas, Adrian L. Melott, Charles H. Jackman +7
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are likely to have made a number of significant impacts on the Earth during the last billion years. We have used a two-dimensional atmospheric model to inve…
Terrestrial Ozone Depletion Due to a Milky Way Gamma-Ray Burst
Brian C. Thomas, Charles H. Jackman, Adrian L. Melott +5
Based on cosmological rates, it is probable that at least once in the last Gy the Earth has been irradiated by a gamma-ray burst in our Galaxy from within 2 kpc. Using a two-dimens…