[ RadSafe ] Airlines diverting polar flights due solar storm

[KARAM, PHILIP]

There a program called CARI (https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/aeromedical/radiobiology/cari6/) that models cosmic radiation dose during flight. Not sure if it would help here or not.

Andy


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Richard

Thanks for the interesting graph of the roentgen "dose" (photons in
air).  Please note though that 50 - 75% of the *dose equivalent*, or
equivalent dose, for those outside the USA,  at cruising altitude,
originates in neutrons.

Cheers
cja

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Richard L. Hess <lists at richardhess.com> wrote:
> As a baseline, you may recall a demonstration I did about a dozen years
> ago...
>
> The uR calibration is based on cesium, I believe, and I probably should have
> just logged CPM, but you get the idea.
>
> http://www.richardhess.com/rad/lax_chi.jpg
>
> Hopefully it will be clear tonight and we'll finally see an aurora in
> Aurora, Ontario...they have been visible here, but I've never seen one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> On 2014-01-09 10:28 AM, Joseph Shonka wrote:
>>
>> I wonder what the ionizing radiation levels are like.  No mention of that
>> in the article.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Marcum Martz <marcum.martz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-24/delta-reroutes-some-flights-on-solar-flare.html
>>> _______________________________________________
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