Station name: Mawson
Station short name: MWSN
Start date: 2002-10-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Head organization:
Principal investigator: Marc Duldig
Contact person:
Latitude [°]: -67.6047
Longitude [°]: 62.8714
Altitude [m] asl: 30.0
Geomagnetic cutoff rigidity [GV]: 0.22
Average count rate [s-1] during solar activity minimum: 235.0
Average count rate [s-1] during solar activity maximum: 260.0
Reference atmospheric pressure [mbar]: 990.0
Barometric coefficient [%/mbar]: -0.708
Information on detector housing:
Type of counter tube: NM64
Number of counter tubes: 18
Information on detector: Chalk River neutron BP28 counters arranged in 3 sections, each of which has 6 counters in a row with no intervening reflector
Atmospheric pressure sensor: Digiquartz Digital Barometer
Information about clock: GPS receiver