THE USE OF COSMIC-RAYS FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND PREDICTION OF SOME DANGEROUS PHENOMENA FOR THE EARTHS CIVILIZATION

The main idea of the International Cosmic Ray Service (ICRS) is to com bine satellite and spaceprobe cosmic rays, magnetic and plasma data wi th groundbased cosmic ray data (exchanged in real time) for obtaining continuous information on the electromagnetic and radiation situation in the interplanetary space and Earth's magnetosphere: prediction of g reat geomagnetic storms, big increases of radiation hazards and other dangerous phenomena in space and on the Earth for people and technolog y. ICRS can predict not only geomagnetic storms and unfavorable days i n the environment (especially important for old people and people with some diseases), but, in combination with astrophysical methods, can p redict big increases of radiation hazards very dangerous for the Earth 's civilization and big changes in the environment due to extremely po werful solar flares and local supernova explosions. We hope that, afte r some additional investigation of high energy cosmic-ray distribution function outside the heliosphere, it could be possible to solve by IC RS more complicated problems: to determine in combination with astroph ysical methods the location and velocity of nearest dust-molecular gal actic clouds with frozen-in magnetic fields and predict the expected t ime of the Sun capturing by some clouds with possible changes of Earth 's global climate. The foundation of ICRS could bring a new possibilit y of development to the cosmic ray observatories, release scientists f rom a lot of routine work and increase the fundamental and applied res earch efficiency.