Ionization effect of solar particle GLE events in low and\ middle atmosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1979-1988

  Usoskin, I G ^a   Kovaltsov, G A ^b   Mironova, I A ^c   Tylka, A J ^d   Dietrich, W F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PRAXIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY; IONIZATION; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 79952261181     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-1979-2011     Document Type: Article

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