The Solar System in a dense interstellar cloud: Implications for cosmic-ray fluxes at Earth and 10Be records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Florinski, V ^a   Zank, G P ^a   Axford, W I ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; COSMOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET);

GALACTIC COSMIC RAY FLUXES; HELIOSPHERE;

GEOPHYSICS; COSMIC RAYS;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SOLAR WIND;

COSMIC RAY FLUX; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; HELIOSPHERES; HELIOSPHERIC INTERFACES; INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; STANDARD MODEL; TERMINATION SHOCKS;

EID: 1542545609     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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