Optimization of neutron monitor data correction algorithms

Nowadays, several neutron monitor stations worldwide, broadcast their cosmic ray data in real time, in order for the scientific community to be able to use these measurements immediately. In parallel, the development of the Neutron Monitor Database (NMDB; http://www.nmdb.eu) which collects all the high resolution real time measurements, allows the implementation of various applications and services by using these data instantly. Therefore, it is obvious that the need for high quality real time data is imperative. The quality of the data is handled by different correction algorithms that filter the real time measurements for undesired instrumental variations. In this work, an optimization of the Median Editor that is currently mainly applied to the neutron monitor data and the recently proposed ANN algorithm based on neural networks is presented. This optimization leads to the implementation of the Median Editor Plus and the ANN Plus algorithms. A direct comparison of these algorithms with the newly appeared Edge Editor is performed and the results are presented.