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Air shower simulation for WASAVIES: warning system for aviation exposure to solar energetic particles
T Sato1, R Kataoka2, H Yasuda3
1Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Shirakata-Shirane 2-4, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan sato.tatsuhiko@jaea.go.jp.
Abstract:
WASAVIES, a warning system for aviation exposure to solar energetic particles (SEPs), is under development by collaboration between several institutes in Japan and the USA. It is designed to deterministically forecast the SEP fluxes incident on the atmosphere within 6 h after flare onset using the latest space weather research. To immediately estimate the aircrew doses from the obtained SEP fluxes, the response functions of the particle fluxes generated by the incidence of monoenergetic protons into the atmosphere were developed by performing air shower simulations using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code system. The accuracy of the simulation was well verified by calculating the increase count rates of a neutron monitor during a ground-level enhancement, combining the response function with the SEP fluxes measured by the PAMELA spectrometer. The response function will be implemented in WASAVIES and used to protect aircrews from additional SEP exposure.
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