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IT is well known that the intensity of the hard component of the cosmic radiation at sea-level changes with changing atmospheric conditions. The existing correlation may be expressed by means of a linear equation: where I is the intensity, B is the air pressure at sea-level, H is the height of the pressure level which is chosen to represent the average atmospheric depth of meson production, and T is the temperature just below this level. A bar above a quantity denotes its mean value.
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TREFALL, H. Cosmic-Ray Intensity and the Temperature of the Upper Atmosphere. Nature 171, 888–889 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171888a0
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