Solar Energetic Particle Event occurrence prediction using Solar Flare Soft X-ray measurements and Machine Learning

Sigiava Aminalragia-Giamini; Savvas Raptis; Anastasios Anastasiadis; Antonis Tsigkanos; Ingmar Sandberg; Athanasios Papaioannou; Constantinos Papadimitriou; Piers Jiggens; Angels Aran; Ioannis A. Daglis

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 11, 2021


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DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2021043
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