[Characteristics of solar cosmic radiation on the Meteor satellites]

The paper presents the results of examinations of solar cosmic rays recorded during 1969--1978 by Meteor satellites in the high latitude areas of the Earth magnetosphere. The purpose of the investigations is to develop methods for diagnosing and predicting the radiation environment in the near-Earth space. Morphological features of proton events, and their relationship with the characteristics of the source and the flare, the state of the interplanetary space and the magnetosphere are described.