Testing the empirical relationship between Forbush decreases and cosmic ray diurnal anisotropy

Jibrin Adejoh Alhassan, Ogbonnaya Okike, Augustine Ejikeme Chukwude

The abrupt aperiodic modulation of cosmic ray (CR) flux intensity, often referred to as Forbush decrease (FD), plays a significant role in our understanding of the Sun-Earth electr…