Articles | Volume 35, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-825-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-825-2017
Regular paper
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17 Jul 2017
Regular paper |  | 17 Jul 2017

Decadal trends in the diurnal variation of galactic cosmic rays observed using neutron monitor data

Simon Thomas, Mathew Owens, Mike Lockwood, and Chris Owen

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