NAIRAS aircraft radiation model development, dose climatology, and initial validation

Space Weather

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 603-635

  Mertens, Christopher J ^a   Meier, Matthias M ^b   Brown, Steven ^c   Norman, Ryan B ^a   Xu, Xiaojing ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

dosimetry; galactic cosmic rays; ionizing radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892519406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/swe.20100     Document Type: Article

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