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Jan 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987georl..14...72e&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 14, Jan. 1987, p. 72-75.
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Galactic Cosmic Rays, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Disturbances, Modulation, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Ionization, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Minima, Sunspot Cycle, Troposphere
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Solar-sector synchronous modulations of the particulate cosmic radiation reaching the earth's atmosphere have been studied using low altitude satellite and surface data. The flux in the broad maximum of the galactic cosmic ray differential spectrum (near GV rigidity) exhibits an intermittent north-south asymmetry (NSA) in mid and high geomagnetic latitudes. During the 1964 and 1965 years of sunspot minimum, this modulation had a negative rigidity dependence and strong correlations with geomagnetic disturbance index (ap) and interplanetary magnetic field direction. Taken together with other features, this ap dependence is consistent with the hypothesis that reconnection of the interplanetary and geomagnetic fields should produce a local NSA independent of much larger scale NSAs associated with cosmic ray gradients in the heliosphere. This finding is also consistent with suggestions that solar activity influence on atmospheric processes may be mediated by the resulting modulations of upper tropospheric ionization.
Ely John T. A.
Huang Tsai C.
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