Project+How+To

Back So since we ran into such complications, I will take you through a brief tutorial as to what you could do to simply accomplish this project, and I will try to get you the resources you will need to accomplish it.

Step one (option one):
So first thing is first, you need to find out what TEC data you have access to. I would use the 16th of May. The way you decide what day you use, is by checking the barometric pressure of the day, because if it is too high, it would effect the muon detectors. You can learn about barometric pressure here. And you can get the barometric pressures and weather [|here]. Basically high barometric pressure greatly reduces the number of muons detected, and low does likewise. So you find a day that had generally normal barometric pressure, no storms, or intense weather, just a genuinely normal day. Or if you have enough that have a high barometric pressure or low, you can use that too, and just compare it that way. (I don't recommend this though.) You look at all of this days data, and split them up based on the high and low cosmic ray fluxes.

Step one (option two):
Now granted, there is another way you can attack this project. You can take the entire month of May, (Any month from May 2008 and on should work) and start from there. You take the months data, you find the highest and lowest cosmic ray fluxes, and split those days up. You find go on and find out the barometric pressure of those days, and put the similar ones together.

Step Two:
Now once you have the data that you want to compare, you take the day you are comparing, and you take Google Earth's TEC data for that day, and watch to see when the TEC is the highest in that area for example if I was looking at New York on a perfect day, and I see that the TEC is heaviest at 4 o'clock and the flux study shows that the highest or the lowest muon activity takes place at this time, you could conclude from this data, that either the TEC limits or accelerates the muon activity, and then you simply compare all of your data and make a conclusion based on a simple comparison. Your data should have conclusive similarities, and if not, then you can tell that the relationship isn't between the muons and electrons aren't strong enough to prove anything.

The best way to attack all the different "problems" that could occour, is to do the study.You take the detectors you want to use, and once you are done, you find out which of the following had high or low barometric pressure for example. Then you keep taking more detectors to rule the "problem" down to a small percentage. You need to get a ratio of about a 1:10 ratio= high/low barometric pressure: normal day. Now this may take alot of work, but is the only way to really effectively rule out the problems.
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