Nonlinear Model of the Earth Atmosphere with Regard to Rocket and Satellite Data

The well-known model of the Earth standard atmosphere becomes unsatisfactory when altitudes are higher than 150 km. That is why in the paper a new model of the atmosphere is proposed. In this model strong electric fields in the Earth atmosphere are taken into account and described by means of the SU(2) Yang-Mills nonlinear generalization of the Maxwell equations. It is shown that the proposed nonlinear model is in a good balance with experimental data in the considered range of altitudes from zero to 1000 km.

Atmospheric regions, quasi-neutral plasma, nonlinear electric fields, Yang-Mills equations, nonlinear atmospheric model