Advances in measuring and modeling the atmospheric radiation environment

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3415-3422

  Dyer, Clive ^a   Hands, Alex ^a   Lei, Fan ^a   Truscott, Peter ^a   Ryden, Keith A ^a   Morris, Paul ^a   Getley, Ian ^b   Bennett, Les ^c   Bennett, Bryce ^c   Lewis, Brent ^c  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient dose equivalent; Atmospheric measurements; Radiation monitors; Single event effects

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT DOSE EQUIVALENT; ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MODEL; HIGH LATITUDES; QINETIQ; RADIATION MONITORS; SINGLE EVENT EFFECTS; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONAL COUNTER;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 72349099672     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2032185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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