Atmospheric variations as observed by IceCube

31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tilav, Serap ^a   Desiati, Paolo ^b   Kuwabara, Takao ^a   Rocco, Dominick ^b   Rothmaier, Florian ^c   Simmons, Matt ^a   Wissing, Henrike ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

IceCube; Icetop; South pole

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMIC RAYS; POLES;

ANTARCTIC OZONE LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS; COSMIC RAY INTERACTIONS; ICE CUBES; ICETOP; SOUTH POLE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE LAYERS; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

OZONE LAYER;

EID: 84899112900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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