Distribution of extreme solar energetic proton fluxes

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 300-307

  Ruzmaikin, Alexander ^a   Feynman, Joan ^a   Jun, Insoo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetic particles; Solar variability; Stochastic processes; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CORONAL MASS EJECTION; CRITICAL ELEMENTS; DATA SETS; ENERGETIC PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGES; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY-TAILS; HIGH FLUX; HIGH INTENSITY; OBSERVED DATA; PARTICLE FLUXES; POISSONIAN; POWER EXPONENT; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; POWER-LAW TAIL; PROTON ENERGY; ROBOTIC SPACE MISSION; SCALING PROPERTIES; SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES; SOLAR ENERGETIC PROTON; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; TIME INTERVAL; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651077012     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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