New Energetic Proton Measurements for Aviation-Radiation Services
Abstract
With the growing need to understand the radiation risk to commercial aviation and commercial space transportation, accurately characterizing the energetic particle environment is becoming increasingly important. To address this requirement, new instrumentation has been deployed on the most recent generation of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The first of the new series, GOES-16, was launched in November, 2016 and carries energetic proton instruments that measure a differential energy spectrum up to 500 MeV plus the integrated proton flux above 500 MeV. With the combined differential and integral information, it is possible to estimate the proton spectrum up to well above 1 GeV. In this presentation, the proton spectra from the September 10-11, 2017 proton event will be shown, and implications for radiation at aviation altitudes discussed.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMNH41D0940O
- Keywords:
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- 4305 Space weather;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 4313 Extreme events;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 7914 Engineering for hazard mitigation;
- SPACE WEATHER;
- 7964 Policy;
- SPACE WEATHER