WebCN: A web-based computation tool for in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides
Published in:
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 259,1 (2007) 646-652;
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.01.303
Abstract
Cosmogenic nuclide techniques are increasingly being utilized in geoscience research. For this it is critical to establish an effective, easily accessible and well defined tool for cosmogenic nuclide computations. We have been developing a web-based tool (WebCN) to calculate surface exposure ages and erosion rates based on the nuclide concentrations measured by the accelerator mass spectrometry. WebCN for Be-10 and Al-26 has been finished and published at http://www.physics.purdue.edu/primelab/for users/rockage.html. WebCN for Cl-36 is under construction. WebCN is designed as a three-tier client/server model and uses the open source PostgreSQL for the database management and PHP for the interface design and calculations. On the client side, an internet browser and Microsoft Access are used as application interfaces to access the system. Open Database Connectivity is used to link PostgreSQL and Microsoft Access. WebCN accounts for both spatial and temporal distributions of the cosmic ray flux to calculate the production rates of in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides at the Earth's surface. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords
WebCN;; AMS;; cosmogenic nuclides;; surface exposure age;; erosion rates;; PostgreSQL;; PHP;; microsoft access;; Instruments & Instrumentation;; Nuclear Science & Technology;; Physics, ;; Atomic, Molecular & Chemical;; Physics, Nuclear
Date of this Version
1-1-2007