@InProceedings{SchuchDEDGBMSBHDPRSOMKFKBEDHASSJ:2013:BrCoSp,
               author = "Schuch, N. J. and Dal Lago, Alisson and Echer, Ezequiel and 
                         Denardini, Clezio Marcos and Gonzalez, Walter Demetrio and Braga, 
                         Carlos Roberto and Mendon{\c{c}}a, Rafael Rodrigues Souza de and 
                         Souza, Mauricio Rosa de and Bremm, Tiago and Hammerschmitt, Bruno 
                         Knevitz and Deggeroni, Vinicius and Petry, Adriano and Rigozo, 
                         Nivaor R. and Silva, Marlos Rockenbach da and Oliveira, Alexandro 
                         Gerson and Munakata, K and Kato, C. and Fujii, Z and Kuwabara, T 
                         and Bieber, J. W. and Evenson, Paul and Duldig, M. L. and Humble, 
                         J. E. and Al Jassar, H. K. and Sharma, M. M. and Sabbah, I and 
                         Jansen, F.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {} and {} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "The Global Muon Detector Network - GMDN. The Brazilian 
                         Contribution for SpaceWeather Forecasting",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2013",
         organization = "International Cosmic Ray Conference, 33. (ICRC).",
             keywords = "Galactic cosmic rays, muon, coronal mass ejection, space 
                         weather.",
             abstract = "The GMDN, is a Global Muon Detector Network (GMDN) of ground based 
                         multi-directional detectors, and an international collaboration 
                         consisting of 10 institutions from 6 countries, with real time 
                         data generated by the GMDN, which was developed at Shinshu 
                         University, Japan. The Brazilian GMDNs contribution was the 
                         installation in 2001, of a Multi-Directional Muon Detector 
                         prototype (MMD) for detection of high-energy galactic cosmic rays 
                         (GCRs), through an international cooperation between Brazil, Japan 
                         and USA, and has been in operation since then at the Southern 
                         Space Observatory - SSO/CRS/INPE - MCTI, (Latitude 29o , 26, 24S, 
                         Longitude 53o , 48, 38W, 492m above sea level), Sao Martinho da 
                         Serra, RS, in southern Brazil. The SSO-MMD detectors capability 
                         and sensitivity were twice upgraded, in 2005 and 2012. The 
                         Brazilian contribution for Space Weather forecasting is through 
                         the observations conducted by the SSO-MMD which are used for 
                         forecasting the arrival of the geomagnetic storm and their 
                         Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) drivers in the 
                         near-Earth geospace. The detector measures GCRs by detecting 
                         secondary muons produced from the hadronic interactions of primary 
                         GCRs (mostly protons) with atmospheric nuclei. Since muons have a 
                         relatively short life-time (about 2.2 microseconds at rest), it 
                         can reach the ground level due to the relativistic effect, and can 
                         preserving the incident direction of primary particles, because 
                         its high energy, the SSO-MMD detector can measure the GCRs 
                         intensity in 17 directions as a multidirectional detector at a 
                         single location, the SSO in southern Brazil.",
  conference-location = "Rio de Janeiro",
      conference-year = "2013",
                label = "lattes: 4050318480364899 6 
                         SchuchDEDGBMSBHDPRSOMKFKBEDHASSJ:2013:BrCoSp",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "ICRC2013-946The Global Muon Detector Network - GMDN. The Brazilian 
                         Contribution for SpaceWeather Forecasting.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "06 maio 2024"
}