Engineering Physics Annotation << Back EFFECT OF COSMIC RADIATION ON THE GENERATION OF ATMOSPHERIC VORTEX STRUCTURES N.I. IZHOVKINA, S.N. ARTEKHA, N.S. EROKHIN, L.A. MIKHAILOVSKAYA The Earth’s atmosphere is under the infl uence of heat and ionizing sources. The maximum ionization of atmospheric particles by cosmic rays corresponds to heights of formation of tropospheric cloudiness. Condensation on aerosol particles increases with the ionization of the particles. An important role of aerosols is manifested in the generation of plasma vortices and in the accumulation of energy and mass by vortices in the atmosphere at condensation. The genesis of cyclones and anticyclones is associated with the nonlinear interaction of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic structures. Since the formation of ionizing particles is a cascade process, then the effect of cosmic rays on vortex atmospheric processes is essentially nonlinear. Keywords: plasma vortices, the geomagnetic field, atmospheric electric fi elds, aerosol particles, ionosphere, cosmic rays. Contacts: E-mail: izhovn@izmiran.ru, E-mail: sergey.arteha@gmail.com, E-mail: nerokhin@iki.rssi.ru Pp. 59-69.