Solar proton events in cosmogenic isotope data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Usoskin, Ilya G ^a   Solanki, Sami K ^b   Kovaltsov, Gennady A ^c   Beer, Jürg ^d   Kromer, Bernd ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ISOTOPES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROTONS;

COSMOGENIC ISOTOPE; SOLAR PARTICLE; SOLAR PROTON;

SOLAR ENERGY;

COSMIC RAY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 33745458247     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026059     Document Type: Article

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