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Cosmic Ray Latitude Survey: 1995-1996

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During the 1995-96 austral summer, a period of solar minimum, we operated a neutron monitor on board the ship Italica of the Italian Antarctic Programme to record cosmic ray neutron intensities in seas from Italy to Antarctica and back.

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This survey provided a full coverage of cut-off rigidities and the possibility of repeating the measurements at least twice at the same cut-offs. In spite of some problems encountered, mainly due to the unstable AC voltage supplied by the ship, it was possible to get a preliminary latitude curve of the cosmic ray nucleonic intensity .

Data corrections for efficiency changes, pressure variations and small primary cosmic ray variations were applied to the raw data recorded along the survey.

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concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-fluxsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/sun-earth-interactions/solar-energetic-particle-flux/neutral-particle-fluxsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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