The presence of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) poses a serious health risk to humans in space, can result in increased radiation doses for high-latitude aircraft flights and constitutes a serious hazard for the micro-electronics and other hardware elements of satellites, aircraft and launchers. These groups of end users need reliable forecasts of possible enhancements in the radiation flux level ...[Read More]
Web-based Tools for Forecasting Solar Particle Events and Flares
The effect of particles in the Bastille day event. Credit: http://sidc.be/news/233/welcome.html