(1) F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia;(2) Institute of Experimental Physics, Watson St. 47, 04353 Košice, Slovakia;(3) University of Oulu, Linnanmaa, FIN-90570 Oulu, Finland
Abstract:
We suggest a new approach to the normalisation of neutron monitor response to galactic cosmic rays. The reference normalisation
count rate is the neutron monitor response to the model unmodulated flux of galactic cosmic rays. A comparison of the actually
recorded neutron monitor count rate with the calculated normalisation count rate can provide one with an observationally obtained
true-of-date integral measure of the current level of solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays.
The Slovak VEGA grant agency is acknowledged for the grant 2-5137.