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						     Volume 7, Number 42
						     November 1, 1997

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Space Weather: Research to Operations II 
(Meeting Scheduled for February 5-6, 1998)
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From: "Onsager, Terry" <tonsager at sec.noaa.gov>

Advances in space weather research, the availability of new real-time
data, and efforts at the space weather operations centers to use new
models and data operationally are all helping to realize the goals of
the National Space Weather Program.  A meeting to continue these efforts
on the near-term and future transition of research models and data into
operational use will be held in Boulder, CO on February 5-6, 1998.  The
meeting is being jointly organized by the NSF Division of Atmospheric
Sciences, the AF Research Laboratory and the NOAA Space Environment
Center.  Convenors are: Terry Onsager (SEC), Greg Ginet (AF) and Rich
Behnke (NSF).   The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for
space environment modelers and other researchers to interact with people
from organizations that provide forecasts and services to space weather
customers and to address the science problems that are important for
space weather activities. The meeting will provide an opportunity for
modelers to describe tools that will soon be available for transition to
space weather services, and will provide an opportunity for the space
weather operations centers to describe the processes they are
implementing to select, evaluate, and eventually graduate models/data
into operational use.  Among the issues that will be emphasized at this
meeting are: data availability and data requirements for space weather
models and standardization that could benefit both the research and the
operations communities.
 
Additional details regarding the meeting agenda and logistics will be
distributed shortly. 


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