Calculation of Ionization and Radiation Dose Rates

Software documentation: Computation of ionization and radiation dose rates in the Earth's atmosphere caused by galactic and solar cosmic rays.

Table of contents:

• Computation of CR particle trajectories in the geomagnetosphere: asymptotic directions and cutoff rigidities.
• Determination of the CR spectrum at the top of the atmosphere based on the CR intensity near Earth but outside the geomagnetosphere.
• Computation of the ionization and the effective dose rates in the Earth's atmosphere.
• Procedure to save the computed results in a MySQL database.
• Script that calls sequentielly all the different computer programs (computation of particle trajectories, cosmic ray flux at the top of the atmosphere, and ionization and radiation dose rates in the atmosphere).
• IDL programs to produce plots of effective dose rates and ionization rates at decided altitudes in the Earth's atmosphere.
• Web pages to publish ionization and radiation dose rates

The attached file contains the whole documentation as pdf-file