Two groups of extremely large >30 MeV solar proton fluence events

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1734-1740

  Smart, D F ^a   Shea, M A ^a   Spence, H E ^b   Kepko, L ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme proton fluxes; Fluence distributions; Proton events; Solar protons

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT;

EXTREME PROTON FLUXES; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTON EVENTS; SOLAR PROTONS;

PROTONS;

EID: 33744810326     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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