Space weather and the ground-level solar proton events of the 23rd solar cycle

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 161-188

  Shea, M A ^a,b   Smart, D F ^a,b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

GLEs; Ground level cosmic ray events; Solar protons; Space weather

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; AIRPORT BUILDINGS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACECRAFT POWER SUPPLIES;

COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; GALACTIC COSMIC RADIATIONS; GLES; GROUND-LEVEL COSMIC RAY EVENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION; SOLAR PROTONS; SPACE WEATHER; SPACECRAFT ELECTRONICS;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

EID: 84867335469     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-012-9923-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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