Article: The Weather Magnet.(News Files/The Popsci Unscrambler: Making Hard Science A Little Less Hard)

Article: THE GLOBAL CIRCUIT INTENSITY
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... are modulated by heating of Earth's surface, temperature variation ... land and Vi, a measure of Earth's fair-weather electric ... and upper troposphere due to solar modulation of cosmic radiation, the primary ... capacitor structure of the Earth's geoelectric field constitutes ...

Article: Research from University of Oxford provides new data on ...
Electronics Newsweekly;  March 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Some studies indicate that the solar modulation of galactic cosmic ray (GCR ... has profound consequences for Earth's climate system. A corollary ... theory involves a link between Earth's magnetic field and climate ... modulates the GCR flux reaching Earth's atmosphere. In this study ...

Article: Pioneer: First to Jupiter, Saturn, and Beyond: Epilogue Beyond ...
U.S. History;      700+ words ... ... distance of at least 88 times Earth's distance from the Sun 13 ... they cannot be detected from Earth with present observational ... region most severely affected by solar modulation (as discussed in chapter 6 ... Pioneer 10 out to 20 times Earth's distance from the Sun ...

Article: Cosmic Rays
Space Sciences;      700+ words ... ... origin that continually bombard Earth. The measurements scientists ... elapsed that an observer on Earth would have measured. An early ... them to reach the detectors on Earth) managed to survive without ... solar wind, resulting in "solar modulation" of the galactic cosmic ray ...

Article: Giant balloon floated 'to catch cosmic rays'.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  May 23, 2009 ;     579 words ... ... northwestern Canada and float back down to Earth on a parachute and then recovered likely ... cosmic rays strike every square meter of Earth's atmosphere a second, depending somewhat ... balloon flights will be used to study solar modulation, the variation in cosmic ray intensity ...

Article: HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON CARRIES UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE MASCOT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 7, 2006 ;     555 words ... ... cable between the balloon and the parachute-AESOP floated to Earth under a 150-foot parachute. According to James Roth, a ... Astronomy, the purpose of the AESOP flights is to measure the solar modulation of cosmic-ray particles. AESOP has completed several shorter ...

Article: Studies from National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
Defense & Aerospace Week;  July 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ..."For future space missions outside of the Earth's magnetic field, the risk of radiation exposure from ... the expected frequency of SPEs is strongly influenced by solar modulation, SPE occurrences themselves are chaotic in nature," investigators ...