Dynamic complexity based analysis on the relationship between solar activity and cosmic ray intensity

Abstract

The Earth’s atmosphere is incessantly bombarded by energetic charged particles called cosmic rays (CR) which are having either solar or non-solar origin. Analysis based on information theoretic estimators can be effectively employed as a potential technique to analyze the dynamical changes in cosmic ray intensity during different solar cycles. In the present study, dynamical complexity based analysis using Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) has been employed which reveals the existence of some peculiar fluctuation properties in CRI flux at Jung neutron monitor station. JSD based dynamical complexity analyses confirm the existence of difference in dynamical properties of CR flux during solar cycles 20-21 and 22-23.