TY - JOUR
TI - Radiation Exposure in the Lower Atmosphere during Different Periods of
Solar Activity
AU - Tezari, Anastasia
AU - Paschalis, Pavlos
AU - Stassinakis, Argyris and
AU - Mavromichalaki, Helen
AU - Karaiskos, Pantelis
AU - Gerontidou, Maria and
AU - Alexandridis, Dimitris
AU - Kanellakopoulos, Anastasios
AU - Crosby, Norma
AU - and Dierckxsens, Mark
JO - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
PY - 2022
VL - 13
TODO - 2
SP - null
PB - MDPI
SN - null
TODO - 10.3390/atmos13020166
TODO - ambient dose equivalent; cosmic radiation; aviation; solar cycle
TODO - In recent years, there has been a huge increase in air travel, both for
business and leisure. For this reason, entities such as the European
Commission and the International Committee on Radiological Protection
have provided several recommendations for the radiation protection of
aviation crews and frequent flyers, as well as highlighted the need for
accurate tools for radiation assessment in the atmosphere. With a focus
on the most frequent commercial flying altitudes, this work has
performed dosimetry calculations in the lower atmosphere of Earth for
different values of cut-off rigidity, covering the recent solar cycles
23 and 24. Results are based on Monte Carlo simulations performed with
the validated Geant4 software application Dynamic Atmospheric Shower
Tracking Interactive Model Application (DYASTIMA) and its extension,
DYASTIMA-R.
ER -