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Cosmic Rays Long Term Record

FY07 Cosmic Rays -- new. Cosmic Rays Long Term Record. Cosmic ray database begins in 1951. They have an inverse solar cycle behavior. Earlier data exist. FY07 Cosmic Rays -- new. Archives from Scott Forbush, early cosmic ray scientist.

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Cosmic Rays Long Term Record

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  1. FY07 Cosmic Rays -- new Cosmic Rays Long Term Record Cosmic ray database begins in 1951. They have an inverse solar cycle behavior. Earlier data exist.

  2. FY07 Cosmic Rays -- new Archives from Scott Forbush, early cosmic ray scientist Cosmic ray ionization chamber data available beginning in 1936 Six worldwide stations monitoring system Cheltenham (later replaced by Fredericksburg), Maryland; Christchurch, New Zealand; Godhavn, Greenland; Climax, Colorado; Huancayo, Peru; and Mexico City, Mexico for the time period 1936-1959 Proposal: Migration of historical cosmic ray observations on photographic charts and published bi-hourly values to digital format

  3. FY07 Cosmic Rays -- new Cosmic Ray legacy data The ionization chamber adds up the ionization on a capacitor, i.e., it gives a time integral of the cosmic ray flux. CDMP Cosmic Ray Digitization Project Nine boxes of photographic charts Every hour the capacitor is shorted out- -that is the step you see every hour on the charts. Digitize in 2 minute intervals -- annual bundles of strip charts Each day is about 24 inches long by 2 inches wide – 1 hour/inch Dr. Ken McCracken will help with timing issues.

  4. contain important information never made public highly relevant to modern day scientific studies Photographic charts: 9 boxes of 114 station years data, thus 70 Mbytes of data total from 2 minute digitization. PDF scans would also be valuable before discarding data Bi-hourly data in books keyed in: (1140 station months, plus summary tables) Huancayo 1936-68 Cheltenham/Fredericksburg 1936-68 Christchurch 1947-61 Godhavn 1947-Jul 59 Mexico Jul 1957-58 FY07 Cosmic Rays -- new Cosmic Ray legacy data

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