Connections between neutron monitor count rate and solar modulation strength
Abstract
We suggest a new approach to the normalisation of neutron monitor response to galactic cosmic rays. The reference normalisation count rate is the neutron monitor response to the model unmodulated flux of galactic cosmic rays. A comparison of the actually recorded neutron monitor count rate with the calculated normalisation count rate can provide one with an observationally obtained true-of-date integral measure of the current level of solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays.
- Publication:
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Czechoslovak Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1023/A:1022888121484
- Bibcode:
- 1999CzJPh..49.1743U