Solar particle events and self-organized criticality: Are deterministic predictions of events possible?

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1839-1843

  Xapsos, M A ^a,b   Stauffer, C ^c   Barth, J L ^a,b   Burke, E A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Muniz Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; Rescaled range; Self organized criticality; Solar particle event

Indexed keywords

RESCALED RANGE; SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

FRACTALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROTONS; SATELLITES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 33748365232     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.880576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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