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Cosmic Rays and Earth — A Summary

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Cosmic rays provide a diagnostic tool to analyze processes in interplanetary space and at the Sun. Cosmic rays also directly affect the terrestrial environment and serve as indicators of solar variability and non anthropogenic climatic changes on Earth at present and in the distant past.

After the invention of the neutron monitor by John A. Simpson in 1948, an international network of cosmic ray detectors developed in a cooperative effort to examine temporal and spatial variations in our space environment. The resulting datasets represent the longest continuous, high time resolution series of particle radiation measurement in space science. At present, the neutron monitor network is complemented by spacecraft instrumentation to study solar-terrestrial correlated phenomena.

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    John W. Bieber & Paul Evenson

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    Eugenia Eroshenko

  3. Solar-Terrestrial Research, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 22230, USA

    Paul Evenson

  4. Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Erwin O. Flückiger

  5. International Space Science Institute, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Reinald Kallenbach

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Bieber, J.W., Eroshenko, E., Evenson, P., Flückiger, E.O., Kallenbach, R. (2000). Cosmic Rays and Earth — A Summary. In: Bieber, J.W., Eroshenko, E., Evenson, P., Flückiger, E.O., Kallenbach, R. (eds) Cosmic Rays and Earth. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1187-6_1

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