The issues of reliability of solar energetic proton flux databases and modelsстатья
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Аннотация:When developing models of SEP particle fluxes and verifying their reliability the predominant factor are experimental data bases. However any unprejudiced comparison of toring experimental data series leads to the conclusion, that particle fluxes in the same events, measured by different instruments on different satellites can differ by a factor of several (sometimes tens) times. In most cases this difference several times exceeds statistical errors in the case when these errors can be estimated.
Naturally, data bases distorted by systematic errors cannot serve as the basis of a reliable particle flux model. Furthermore, even the most reliable data base does not guarantee, that the model output will be reliable, since the model itself can be unreliable due to an inadequate choice of the modeling methodology.
If we distract ourselves from the issues of reliability of the initial experimental data and adequacy of methodology, a criterion of the model reliability is agreement of the model output with reliable experimental data, and just that.
Unfortunately, the authors of most SEP flux models do not perform any selection of the used experimental data according to the monidegree of their reliability and never compare their results with experimental data.
The report presents some results of studies f the reliability of the most frequently used experimental data sets and analysis of the correspondence of the outputs of different models to reliable experimental data on SEP fluxes at different solar activity levels.