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Chris J. Mertens
Senior Research Physicist , NASA Langley Research Center
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Comparative Analysis of Aviation Radiation Models During Solar Energetic Particle Events
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Hazel M. Bain, Kyle Copeland, Christopher J. Merte...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA/SWPC) issues advisories to the global aviation community r...
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Enhancing Data Discoverability and Machine Learning Readiness for Understanding Space Radiation in Earth Environment
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Viacheslav M. Sadykov, Zachary M. Watkins, Dustin ...
Variations of the radiation environment in the Earths atmosphere are coupled to processes driven by solar activity on long timescales (11-year activit...
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Forecasting SEP Atmospheric and Space Radiation Using UMASEP and NAIRAS Models
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Christopher J. Mertens, Guillaume Gronoff, Daniel ...
The Nowcast of Aerospace Ionizing RAdiation System (NAIRAS) model predicts dosimetric and radiative flux quantities for assessing human radiation expo...
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Evaluation of the Recent Improvements of the Nowcast of Aerospace Ionizing Radiation System (NAIRAS)
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Daniel B. Phoenix, Christopher J. Mertens, Guillau...
The Nowcast of Aerospace Ionizing Radiation System (NAIRAS) model is a real-time, global, physics-based model used to assess radiation exposure now ru...
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Impact of the May 2024 Gannon Storm on Low Earth Orbit dosimetric quantities: comparisons of the NAIRAS model -real time and re analysis- with ISS data
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Guillaume Gronoff, Christopher J. Mertens, Daniel ...
The solar storm of May 2024, the Gannon storm, led to a display of aurora over the globe. One of the less known effects of that storm is on the radiat...
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Global Thermospheric Infrared Response to the Mother's Day Weekend Extreme Storm of 2024
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 august 2024
Martin G. Mlynczak, Linda A. Hunt, Benjamin T. Mar...
Earth experienced the strongest geomagnetic storm in 20 years over 10–13 May 2024. The Ap and Dst geomagnetic indices were 273 and ͨ...
Energy Conservation in the Cooling and Contracting Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
19 july 2024
Martin G. Mlynczak, Rolando R. Garcia, Linda A. Hu...
Time series of radiative cooling of the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere (UMLT) by carbon dioxide (CO2) are examined for evidence of trends ...
Infrared Radiation in the Thermosphere From 2002 to 2023
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
18 july 2024
Martin G. Mlynczak, Linda A. Hunt, Benjamin T. Mar...
Twenty‐two years (2002–2023) of infrared radiative cooling rate data derived from the SABER instrument on the NASA TIMED satellite are ...