forbush-effect

Forbush decrease

[fawr-boosh]
noun Astronomy.
the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
Also called Forbush effect.


Origin:
after Scott E. Forbush (born 1904), U.S. physicist

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