Solar radiation monitoring for high altitude aircraft

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Oct 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981heaph..41..607w&link_type=abstract

Health Physics, vol. 41, Oct. 1981, p. 607-617.

Physics

Aircraft Safety, Flight Altitude, High Altitude, Ionizing Radiation, Radiation Protection, Solar Radiation, Energetic Particles, Flux (Rate), Satellite Observation, Solar Flares, Synchronous Satellites

Scientific paper

Ground-based and satellite-based ionizing radiation monitoring systems are considered as alternative methods for ensuring safe radiation levels for high-altitude aircraft. It is found that ground-based methods are of limited accuracy due to insensitivity to solar particles of energies between the riometer upper cutoff of about 50 MeV and the neutron monitor threshold of about 450 MeV. This energy range is demonstrated to be essential for atmospheric radiation monitoring at high altitude, and must be covered by satellite measurement. On the basis of presently available data, the accuracy to which the incident solar particle flux must be measured by satellite-borne detectors is examined and recommendations are made to establish minimum requirements.

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