Applications and usage of the real-time Neutron Monitor Database

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2210-2222

  Mavromichalaki, H ^a   Papaioannou, A ^a   Plainaki, C ^a   Sarlanis, C ^a   Souvatzoglou, G ^a   Gerontidou, M ^a   Papailiou, M ^a   Eroshenko, E ^b   Belov, A ^b   Yanke, V ^b   Fluckiger E O ^c   Butikofer R ^c   Parisi, M ^d   Storini, M ^d   Klein, K L ^e   Fuller, N ^e   Steigies, C T ^f   Rother, O M ^f   Heber, B ^f   Wimmer Schweingruber, R F ^f   Kudela, K ^g   Strharsky, I ^g   Langer, R ^g   Usoskin, I ^h   Ibragimov, A ^h   Chilingaryan, A ⁱ   Hovsepyan, G ⁱ   Reymers, A ⁱ   Yeghikyan, A ⁱ   Kryakunova, O ^j   Dryn, E ^j   Nikolayevskiy, N ^j   Dorman, L ^k   Pustil'Nik, L ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

ⁱ YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^j Institute of Ionosphere   (Kazakhstan)

^k TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Database; Neutron monitors; Solar activity; Space weather

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COSMOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NEUTRONS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE RESEARCH;

COSMIC-RAY PARTICLES; GROUND LEVEL ENHANCEMENTS; NEUTRON MONITORS; PITCH ANGLE DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH APPLICATIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACE WEATHER; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 79955811934     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.02.019     Document Type: Article

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