Occurrence Probability of Large Solar Energetic Particle Events: Assessment from Data on Cosmogenic Radionuclides in Lunar Rocks

Solar Physics

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 211-220

  Kovaltsov, G A ^a   Usoskin, I G ^b,c  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays, solar; Flares, energetic particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888011713     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-013-0333-5     Document Type: Article

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